Tag Archives: Conversation

Community Star: An Activity Tool

Posted on January 6, 2020 by julianstodd

The Community Star is a simple tool to frame your actions around your core Community each day: these five areas are not specific actions, but rather shape the broad thrust of the action. For example, on a ‘smaller’ day you … Continue reading →

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Who Owns The Conversations?

Posted on March 21, 2017 by julianstodd

Many of the conversations i have in organisations are around engagement, around innovation, around culture. The focus is generally how we generate momentum, generate change. It’s easy to focus on the symptoms, without diagnosing the issue: technology may bring us … Continue reading →

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Seattle: An Architecture Of Innovation

Posted on September 30, 2016 by julianstodd

Amazon are building a forest: in the heart of downtown Seattle, beauty emerges, a convoluted scaffolding, sharp sunlight glinting off glass, anodised steel forming perfect spheres. A new building, an architecture of innovation. Three interlinked spheres that will form meeting … Continue reading →

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The Difference of Digital: are all Conversations Equal?

Posted on April 17, 2015 by julianstodd

Some things feel right, some feel wrong, and some are just different. That’s what’s at the heart of my thinking today. I remember the first time i went on camera: painfully awkward, the sound of my own voice was weird, … Continue reading →

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Reflections from Learning Solutions Day 2: Responding to challenge

Posted on March 26, 2015 by julianstodd

The second day of Learning Solutions and i’ve delivered my fourth and final session. Themes: how do we engage communities, how do we respond to challenge, how do we make it safe? I thought i’d capture some ideas around this … Continue reading →

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Social and Fair: being unheard in the Social Age

Posted on October 15, 2014 by julianstodd

When i wrote my first book, ‘Exploring the World of Social Learning‘, i started it by saying how we live in a grey space: between the formal worlds of work and the social lives we inhabit outside of it. Increasingly, … Continue reading →

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Framing and co-creating organisational culture

Posted on January 14, 2014 by julianstodd

I’ve been exploring pressures on organisational culture over the last week or so, looking at how we align our internal values with those of the community and, in turn, choose our course of action. Rifts open up when our personal … Continue reading →

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How social should your social learning be? Taking time out

Posted on March 29, 2013 by julianstodd

It’s a public holiday over here in the Uk for Easter. Time to spend with family and friends, time away from work. But in the Social Age, how far are we able to fully disconnect from our communities. When the … Continue reading →

Posted in Challenge, Collaboration, Community, Conversation, Engagement, Informal Spaces, Introspection, Learning, Relationship, Social Learning | Tagged , , | 5 Comments

A structure for scaffolded social learning: bubbles and gateways

Posted on March 21, 2013 by julianstodd

I’m developing some practical models for implementing social learning in organisations, trying to give ann idea of structures and methodologies that can be used. I’ve written previously about approaches to moderation and the ways that we can co-create meaning in … Continue reading →

Posted in Agile, Authority, Blended Learning, Challenge, Collaboration, Conversation, Curation, Dialogue, E-Learning, Formal Learning Spaces, Formal Spaces, Informal Learning Spaces, Informal Spaces, Journalism, Knowledge, Learning, Learning Design, Learning Journey, Legacy, Meaning, Moderator, Narrative, Scaffolding, Social Learning, Stories, Writing | Tagged , , , , | 18 Comments

Narrative learning: developing your professional practice

Posted on August 24, 2012 by julianstodd

What are you doing today? Or, rather, what are you doing today that’s new? And who are you going to tell about it? And what will you learn from it? What was the last time you heard an idea and … Continue reading →

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