Comments on: What is YOUR history of online facilitation?

By: Jay Cross

Jay Cross — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 01:12:39 +0000

My experience with an early corporate university and later the unworkshops taught me to always be wary of the technology. Murphy’s Law is always at work. Bandwidth, protocols, interference, sun spots: it’s always something.

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By: Nancy White

Nancy White — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 15:11:00 +0000

Good ones, Jessica.

I’d love to hear a story of a turning point in your online facilitation life. What do you see for the future?

Ed, you bring up a key point about the underlying functions of organizing and coordination. I know my offline life significantly impacted my online facilitation. What amazed me, however, in the 90′s was how much people didn’t initially consider those offline skills and knowledge. Did that show up for anyone else?

By: jessica lipnack

jessica lipnack — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 02:05:41 +0000

Lovely, Nancy. Look forward to what you come up with. Murray Turoff and Starr Roxanne Hiltz and EIES deserve a place of honor on the map; also Harry Stevens for Participate. OISE! Wow – old times.

By: Edward Vielmetti

Edward Vielmetti — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 02:13:38 +0000

Nancy, the odd thing is that I don’t feel like I was anywhere near the first to be doing what I was doing; even back in 1985 there were people who had been on the net for 5 or even 10 or 15 years who had some sense for how to organize and coordinate the efforts of people who you didn’t see in person very often.

By: Nancy White

Nancy White — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 21:59:01 +0000

From Tim Winkelmans @twinkelmans on Twitter:

“@NancyWhite as a grad student, in PARTI (late 80′s computer-mediated communications) at OISE. related research: http://bit.ly/dhBrbA”

I’m remembering that I AM a newbie!

By: Nancy White

Nancy White — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 21:57:18 +0000

That’s pretty mind blowing, Ed. So while it is a small bit of my life, it is a good bit of your life!

By: Edward Vielmetti

Edward Vielmetti — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 21:52:30 +0000

Thanks for the great question, Nancy!

I got started in this world in 1985 at the U of Michigan on the Student Conferencing Project

http://www.umich.edu/~umscp/history.html

which means I’m on my 25th year of organizing online (and in person) conversations in Ann Arbor.