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Facilitation: Tips for successful sessions

Facilitation: Tips for successful sessions

Here at Articulous we facilitate a LOT of meetings and workshops.  Thankfully we love doing this, especially when the content is complex or contentious.  We have been tweeting a selection of our favourite twenty tips for making sure that your facilitation session runs as smoothly as possible, especially when using an external facilitator with a number of external participants.

Smart Cities for Humans not Robots

The world is full of clever data scientists, infrastructure specialists and planners who can design smart cities. And if we designed cities for robots and analysts the job is simple. Ok, not simple, but possible. But cities are not places for robots. Cities are places...

Could a conversation with a computer change how we engage?

Could a conversation with a computer change how we engage?

Conversational User Interfaces (CUIs), more commonly known as voice recognition tools or chatbots, have big implications for engagement professionals, and we should be excited – very excited. The question on my lips is not whether the rise of conversational interfaces can help us to engage, but how we can best use them to engage in meaningful ways.

Does media relations still matter?

Does media relations still matter?

Having just witnessed a year which has included U.S presidential election where the President-elect was routinely dismissed by the media and where the Brexit voters were scoffed at, has the mainstream media lost its influence?