Your hub platform may be where you as tech steward most visibly act, but it's not necessarily the center of the world or of your community. You need to see your community’s digital habitat through the community's eyes and see your community through deliberately chosen listening posts (on and off your platform). You need to listen for domain, community, and practice themes. Paying attention to and making sense of specific differences and similarities between Hub communities is your most practical and potent resource for individual community and collective success.

In this talk John intends to give you:

* An understanding of what a technology steward does and how that definition maps to your job
* Tools to define the scope and focus of your job as technology steward
* A listening strategy to shape your work as technology steward
* A vocabulary for learning from and with other tech stewards in your community

John is a technology steward, coach, community leader, and consultant on communities of practice. He helps communities, their leaders, and their sponsors with technology, learning and political decisions and practices. His background includes the design and production of community events, community self-assessment, and the selection, configuration, and use of technologies. He is the community steward for CPsquare, an international community of practice on communities of practice. He’s recently completed a book with Etienne Wenger and Nancy White entitled "Digital Habitats: stewarding technology communities." In collaboration with Etienne Wenger and Bronwyn Stuckey, he has offered the “Foundations of Communities of Practice” online workshop over the last ten years. He is trained in dialog, evaluation, and data analysis. He worked at the University of Colorado as a planner, institutional researcher, administrator, and technologist. He received a Bachelor’s degree from St. John’s College and a master’s degree in planning and architecture from the University of New Mexico. He was born and raised in Humacao, Puerto Rico.
http://www.learningalliances.net/
http://www.technologiesforcommunities.com/

Researchers should cite this work as follows:

• John David Smith (2010), "Technology Stewardship: Listening, Interacting and Leading," https://help.hubzero.org/resources/196.

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