What I’ve Learned about Impact Assessment
I recently spent two days facilitating a workshop on how to evaluate the impact of data training and learning endeavors for Open Knowledge, several School of Data chapters and like minded organisations...
View ArticleBuilding a Better 2017
2016 wasn’t all bad. Here at FabRiders, 2016 was a great year of learning. Every event and project that goes by we find ourselves building and sharing on a body of knowledge that is contributed to and...
View ArticleWhy We’re Excited About The Internet Freedom Festival
From March 6th to 10th, over 1400 individuals will converge in Valencia, Spain for what is being billed as the ‘Global Unconference of the Internet Freedom Communities.’ In our humble opinion, we think...
View ArticleQAF’s and Resources to Mitigate Risks in Academic Research
On June 12th and June 13th, FabRiders collaborated with two doctoral researchers, Lydia Medland and Maria-Teresa Pinto, to design and deliver a workshop at the University of Bristol aimed at helping...
View ArticleWhat We’ve Learned by Prototyping Workshops
The discipline of iteration and testing have been the most important processes to our work at FabRiders. A final product is never produced, whether it’s a how-to guide or a project plan, without...
View ArticleEnabling Collaborative Content Creation with Adam Hyde, Online Discussion Notes
FabRiders’ Network-Centric Resources supports the development of participatory resources, building assets for networks and communities that share ownership, enable contribution and support...
View ArticleWhat We Learned at NPDev 2018
Outside, the air was thick with toxic smoke from the Camp Fire, with warnings to limit exposure. Inside, it was Aspiration’s 15th Non-Profit Developer Summit and people were invested in being there....
View ArticleGunner on Facilitative Leadership, Online Discussion Notes
FabRiders’ Network-Centric Resources Project supports the development of people-powered and participatory resources that establish assets for networks and communities. Our past online discussions have...
View ArticleHow to get the most out of an Unconference
On Wednesday, May 29th, 2019, FabRiders will lead the Open Government Partnership Summit Unconference on Making Data Work for Open Government. This document will help you understand how the...
View ArticleRecipes for Facilitative Leadership – a workshop session design
At Aspiration’s Non-Profit Developer Summit in November 2019, I attended a workshop on Facilitative Leadership run by Misty Avila. What struck me about the session was how Misty walked the walk,...
View ArticleWeeknotes for Feb 14th, 2020
Rachel Rank and Anna Scott at 360Giving inspired this post. We are working on a Data Champion programme for UK Grantmakers and were discussing formats for a blog post on a workshop on Data Workflows....
View ArticleWeeknotes for March 13th, 2020
Of course, COVID-19 dominated everything this week. There was a coronavirus tech handbook page which a bunch of helpful links that Ed Saperia from Newspeak House shared on the Network-Centric...
View ArticleWeeknotes for June 19th, 2020
Breathing again with a focus on reflecting and planning. Reflecting Mor Rubinstein and I hosted a ‘social lunch’ for members of this 360Giving Data Champions Cohort as we wrap up this year’s...
View ArticleSix things I’ve learned about virtual sessions
Since the start of the pandemic, I’ve run over one hundred virtual sessions, and dozens of virtual events, interacting with thousands of participants. Here are six things I’ve learned along the way....
View ArticleThe Virtual Session Design Canvas V 1.0
The Virtual Session Design Canvas is for anyone who has attended the Virtual Session Design Lab, An Online Facilitator Coaching Session, or has read ‘Tips for Designing an Effective Workshop Session’....
View ArticleLearnings we will take from 2021 into 2022
My primary reflection on 2021: it was marginally less crap than 2020. Certainly not the magnitude of crap that was 2020, but with insurrections, revelations and mutations, it still seemed a year we...
View ArticleVirtual vs IRL vs Hybrid
Which format is best for your next convening? On March 24th, 2022, Six session designers convened virtually to talk about the pros and cons of the different session formats we now have to choose from:...
View ArticleFacilitating Collective Power
This online workshop will take place on October 4th at 2 pm UTC (Check Your Time Zone) This three-hour online workshop is for people who facilitate charities, advocates, activists, and other...
View ArticleFacilitation Essentials
What follows is a collection of learnings gained from practising facilitation since the late 90s. Thanks to Gunner at Aspiration for his ongoing contributions and those who have joined me in learning...
View ArticleHelp us build a Collective Power Playbook
In 2023, we started offering a new workshop called “Facilitating Collective Power” and have been surprised by the diversity of participants and how they work with communities, groups and networks to...
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