FOC – one more definition

I read this and just couldn’t help myself. In an online community, breaking the ice can be more difficult. Blogs are like puppies and gardens. Wonderfully put, Shelley!

Facilitating-Online-Communities in short

Facilitating – from latin:  facilis – easy, ergo- to make it easier see Greg’s blog post: I believe we get caught in such a dilemma when we take Facilitating as an exclusive term. The dilemma is resolved once we go back to its basic definition as: “to make possible or easier” And this is where [...]

What is a community? Reflections on weeks 2 and 3

After following the threads of the FOC course and reading through some of the blogs, my idea of what a community has started taking a different form. In one of the threads Leigh reacts to a blog post from Minhaaj saying: Minhaaj then goes on to point out something possibly overlooked in the consideration of [...]

Reflections on FOC week 1

I didn’t really have any expectations about this course and how it would be run, but simply threw myself into cold water. And I’m more than happy with what is going on. It looks like the discussions will be deep and the learning will be steep. It has been an intense week with a lot [...]