European Community of Practice

November was a quiet month in terms of the online space, with the main activities being a preparation for the Steering Group and Facilitators meetings to take place in early December.

Conclusions and Recommendations:

- November saw a consolidating of activity online after several events in October and preparation was made for November. There are probably many activities taking place offline and it would be helpful if an overview or a story could be written by a facilitator that gave other members a glimpse into what is going on in the national groups.

- The site would also be richer for outsiders if there are regular blog-posts written about the domain (social innovation) and about the tools. Ideally, these should be written by people who have insights into the products, processes and their impact in EQUAL. Blogposts that get readership are usually fairly brief and written in a journalistic style or with a human angle. They are also more attractive if they have photos or audio files.

- The Sound Planning CoP regularly take brief videos of people who are part of the network or from events that they organized. These videos are stored in YouTube and provide an interesting blog post for community members. This use of videos is one that could be adopted and/or adapted for the CoPIM. A brief video interview with people involved in social innovation or the tools would be an interest-ing item for readers and members. Do EQUAL offices have a video camera that could be lent to the facilitators for this purpose?

(See, for example, “Sound Planning meets Etienne Wenger” http://soundplanning.esflive.eu/node/291 and “A conversation with Gerhard Braeunling” http://soundplanning.esflive.eu/node/298)

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