Four Ripples

I look back to look forward.

2021: what are my main themes, moments of change and ripples?

Community Management

I dug deeper into the discipline of community management this year in various ways:

📜 Certified by The Community Roundtable: Community 101 | Community Frameworks and Models’, ‘Online Community Fundamentals’, Community Program Essentials.

📜 Reviewed the State of Community Management report 2021.

✍️ Continued the community blog post series with new posts: Community Reflection. Starting a Community. Hosting a Community.

✍️ Examined small online communities while using the McLuhan tetrad.

🌍 Engaged in a few global communities of practice.

An exhibit, ‘Arts of fighting in Asia’ in the Quai Branly Museum in Paris, made me reflect on how we align in life and work.

Learning Innovation

Learning on my own in networks and communities is still my intense focus and capability. Call it learnability, learning agility or continuous workplace learning. My cornucopia keeps evolving through a bunch of activities:

💻 Last year, I went to the Learning Technologies France conference to get a pulse on what’s happening in the workplace learning space. This year it was not on the ground in Paris but remotely.

☕ Participated again in the PKM Workshop hosted by Harold Jarche and monthly PBCC chats. Discover more in the #PKMastery series.

✍️ Shared my notes from the ‘Women in Learning’ podcast on mentoring.

Future Skills

Learnability is the mother of future skills. Through learning out loud posts and a curated post, I shared my iterations of what a future skills map or puzzle can look like:

🚶 Motion.

🧩 Activation.

🚀 Potential and Conversational.

This future skills map could be used by individuals, teams, networks, organisations and communities of practice to assess the state of their future skills and to explore the people, pedagogies and projects needed to enhance their learning and community potential.

One of the family skills in the future skills map is futures thinking. I sharpened my understanding and practice of futures thinking through an IFTF course and community in 2021.

Sensemaking

Being engaged within communities, learning continuously and developing future skills and thinking. Combining the three activities triggered the need to make sense of my learning journey and our crazy world. One of the shapes that emerged to do so was through book reading, notetaking, writing and publishing:

✍️ Unleashed the work behind the scene for the Tapestry book I wrote, edited, designed and published this year. I am grateful to each person who bought the Tapestry Book, promoted it, read it, shared feedback, and helped me produce it.

✍️ Shared my book annotated reading: A Brave New Era: Harold Jarche on Perpetual Beta — Our New Normal.

Visual thinking is also another shape of my sensemaking. Hiking and road trips in the French mountains and villages made me reach new heights.

Tapestry