Collaborative Groups Protocol

Collaborative Groups Protocol

A practical formula for creating and sustaining small, effective groups — designed to work together at scale.

A model for nesting connected groups with communities of practice

In the new edition of my book, Building Successful Communities of Practice, I share insights into community size and interactions. I've been using this theory with clients to create nested layers that include communities of practice that serve as a model for their organisation.

(PDF) Algorithmically Mediating Communication to Enhance Collective Decision-Making in Online Social Networks

PDF | Many collective decision-making contexts involve communication among group members. Sometimes this communication helps the collective reach an... | Find, read and cite all the research you need on ResearchGate

Why Community Matters: Groups as the Next Step for the Fediverse

Federated groups in Bonfire will be spaces where communities gather to organise, care, and coordinate across the fediverse. They'll live next to your personal feed, but each group having a specific purpose: a study circle, a lab team, an activist collective, a local mutual aid crew, a project team. Inside you’ll find posts, conversations, calendars, shared resources, and more. Crucially, groups will be portable and interoperable.

Groupthink

Groupthink is a psychological phenomenon that occurs within a group of people in which the desire for harmony or conformity in the group results in an irrational or dysfunctional decision-making outcome. Cohesiveness, or the desire for cohesiveness, in a group may produce a tendency among its members to agree at all costs.[1] This causes the group to minimize conflict and reach a consensus decision without critical evaluation.[2][3]

Facilitation Techniques and Workshop Activities | Library

Hundreds of group facilitation activities for workshops, meetings and training sessions. Find the best team building activities, energisers, process facilitation and leadership development...

PACT Workshop

This workshop follows the W3C Code of Conduct and the W3C Community Group Process.

How do groups work on Linux?

How do groups work on Linux?

meet.coop - The Online Meeting Cooperative

Online meeting and conferencing tools, powered by renewable energy running on cooperatively owned and managed infrastructure.

Involuntary collaboration: a strategy for decentralized science

How your best co-worker, might be someone you’ll never meet

⁂ community, collaboration, co-existence | Are.na

for building a collective future

1-2-4-All — Liberating Structures

1-2-4-All guides groups through individual reflection, paired conversation, and whole-group discussion to generate solutions to a specific challenge.

Get Together: How to Build a Community with Your People

A practical and heartfelt guide to cultivating a community, online or IRL.Although communities feel magical, they don’t come together by magic. Get Together is a practical and heartfelt guide to cultivating a community. Whether starting a run crew, connecting with fans online, or sparking a movement of K–12 teachers, the secret to getting people together is this: build your community with people, not for them.In Get Together, Bailey Richardson, Kevin Huynh, and Kai Elmer Sotto of People & Company share true stories of everyday people who have created thriving communities, both in person and online. They provide clear steps to untangle the challenge of getting passionate people together, helping individuals and organizations navigate the intricacies of leading a community, including: - How to rally the first people - How to get people talking - How to attract new, authentic folks - How to develop leaders and expand globally.The People & Company team reminds us that we each hold the potential to spark a community. Get Together shows readers that if we join forces—as company and customers, artist and fans, organizer and advocates—we’ll do more together than we ever could alone.

Workshops — Guiding Threads Collective

Our skill-building workshops help participants build their toolkit around key organizational development areas, including growing leadership skills, developing generative conflict practices, and making collaborative decisions.

Introducing the Protocol Institute

Building a field and community to steward the planetary-scale process of protocolization