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What are your most useful synchronous online facilitation practices?

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Photo by/NC from Matthew Saunders' Flickr Stream. TechSoup holds regular meetings for nonprofits in Second Life and I have been attending regularly and sometimes facilitate like this I did this past week. I learned one from Nancy White when I took her online facilitation workshop.

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Second Life Education Programs in NY Times, Goes Open Source, and other tidbits

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Photo from Kate in Flickr Social Signal Open House in TechSoup Office last week I'm playing catch up here on a bunch of Second Life stuff happening over the past week that I didn't want to let slip through my fingers: Social Signal held an open house in Second Life to welcome their new virtual worlds manager, Catherine Winters , to Social Signal.

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Reflections from Global s London Summit

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One might think that it would be difficult to sustain a truly interactive experience, but the way Ethan and Rebecca facilitated - it was an intense day-long conversation. It was very similar to the way the blogher opening plenary was facilitated. Angelo grabbed flickr photos that were uploaded in real-time to add to the blog.

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What's your (blog) Conversation Strategy?

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Public conversation has been happening on the Internet since it started - via listservs, newsgroups, and online forums. But, the real question is how do you facilitate conversation? How do you facilitate cross-blog conversation ? How do you facilitate conversation in the comments ? Reply to every (rational) question.

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Second Life and Communities of Practice Group Action Learning Project

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And, that's why I really enjoy being a member of Cpsquared community because I get to explore online technology tools (in this case for online facilitation/collaboration) with really thoughtful people. First, as with a lot of online facilitation/collaboration it can be frustrating and a little chaotic. I met with the group last week.

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Are They Listening Carefully or Not At All?

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Listen Carefully Photo in Flickr CC "BY" license by Sookie. " She gives examples of the listening deficits, but also the ways that social media tools can facilitate listening. Gavin wrote some excellent advice not too long ago on a listserv and if we're lucky, he'll write it up as a blog post). BlogDigger.

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10 Steps to Extension Professional 2.0 Remix

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Extension programs use wikis, flickr, blogs, tagging, and other tools to share information and content. A blog with the comments feature enabled allows or sharing photos in flickrs allows Extension program participants to discuss plans and programs. From Flickr User EJK. Flickr Farm. That's what I use and why I use it).

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