by Bev Wenger-Trayner | Jun 20, 2021 | All entries, BEtreat, Reflections
Recovering from online Opportunities for meeting face to face – for people in Europe and North America – are slowly opening up. Although we’ve been forced into more online encounters, it has been an opportunity for many people to discover new...
by Bev Wenger-Trayner | Mar 11, 2020 | All entries, Online, Reflections, Social media
It’s easy to think of participation in virtual meetings or events as second cousins. And often it is. Sound quality is poor and made worse by people not muting their mics. There are no informal spaces for serendipitous conversations. And worst of all – people...
by Bev Wenger-Trayner | Aug 14, 2016 | All entries, Cultivating CoPs, Reflections, Social learning in organizations, Social learning leadership
Partly out of a sense of drama and partly to make a point I sometimes find myself being dismissive of “collaboration” and “sharing knowledge”. This is why. First, social learning is first and foremost about – well – learning....
by Bev Wenger-Trayner | Jul 25, 2016 | All entries, BEtreat, Online, Reflections
A range of feelings as we finish two BEtreat workshops for social learning leaders at our house in California: excitement at the potential, sadness at seeing old and new friends leave, and relief that we can now put our feet up. There is always a moment when...
by Bev Wenger-Trayner | Feb 19, 2016 | All entries, Reflections, Social learning in organizations, Social media
Yet again I have a client – of 5 years – who has made the technology a centre-piece of their strategy. I cry. It’s a technology that I suggested and helped to create. But I seem powerless to convince them that the proportion of resources they are investing in...
by Team BE | Dec 31, 2014 | All entries, Practice, Publications, Reflections
Post from Bev: Download a PDF copy of the report How do you show that a network’s activities have changed the performance of its members in their practice? And, how do you use that information to feed into a vision of where the network should go next? That’s how we...
