Last month I was facilitating a World Cafe session for an international development organization in Rome (IFAD). The participants spoke French, English, Portuguese and Spanish. Some were monolingual, others were multilingual. For plenary sessions we had simultaneous translation, but for breakouts and World Cafe conversations, we had to rely on each other. Multilingual folks tried … Continue reading World Cafe Multilingual Report Out
northernvoice wiki / Multilingual blogs I have some notes up – not edited yet, but if you are interested in multilingual blogging and websites, check it out. It would be great if you added examples, links. We have a tag going multilingual_bloggers on del.iciou.us Live blogging caveat applies to live wiki-ing as well. I WILL … Continue reading northernvoice wiki / Multilingual blogs
I’m editing this one from 2013 just before Superbowl Sunday, which is mentioned in this post. Leaving it AS IS! “We aren’t always improvising, we are almost improvising. Then there is that moment we are actually improvising and it is all worth it.” Matt Smith, liberally misquoted by yours truly. I spent Superbowl Sunday at … Continue reading From the Archives: Almost Improvising
Last November I participated in a webinar on designing and facilitating webinars hosted by GFAR. I had intended to do a deeper dive and reflection, but as I clean up old blog post drafts, some things must be let go! 🙂 That said, some very pragmatic things emerged and were captured, so I’m circling back … Continue reading Webinars, Reflections and Chat
Last Monday I was a guest of the Leadership Learning Community for an short online gathering. The description was pretty loose and they expected around 50 people to show up. Communities, Networks and Engagement: Finding a Place for Action We have so many online tools at our disposal to theoretically connect and activate engagement with others. But … Continue reading Follow-up from the Leadership Learning Community Webinar