Last week someone asked me a great question. What’s the difference between a network and community? It came from a conversation about developing supports for cohorts of people in development programmes. The words were used interchangeably and there is a distinct difference between them. A network will be distributed, have a range of channels where… Read More Networked community
Someone commented to me recently how they didn’t feel they had networks or communities to learn with. In a relatively large organisation, they were part of many teams and groups but they didn’t feel they were learning. We talked this through and reframed the question to find out the networks and communities they learnt from.… Read More Building relationships to learn
Superusers don’t work for free, and neither do people who operate as hubs in a network. The thing is, no-one is solely a hub. My network is part of other people’s; my network is a small part of a much larger system. That means you might be a node or a hub and there’s an… Read More Hubs
I’ve been thinking about the concept of orbits recently. The idea of people circulating a topic or group, not engaging, always watching. Occasionally these orbits collide and you have a great experience – less of an eclipse, more of an alignment. So, I’ve decided to take some action and not just an excuse to squeeze… Read More I wished on them but they were only satellites
When I was a kid that I should thank people when they’d been kind enough to let me play round theirs. That’s what she said…Marcel Proust said this: Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom. Lots of people let me play round… Read More My Mum always said