Booz Allen Hamilton's strategy+business has a piece entitled The Megacommunity Manifesto. Megacommunities bring together government, business and NGO on problems of common interest, even if they don't all see thing from the same perspective.
All in community
Booz Allen Hamilton's strategy+business has a piece entitled The Megacommunity Manifesto. Megacommunities bring together government, business and NGO on problems of common interest, even if they don't all see thing from the same perspective.
The Guardian reports that about 1% of the people online actually create content, 10% interact with it, and the rest just view it. Good to know, if you are trying to make something happen.
George Siemens has an interesting comment about how decentralized communities could work - or how bloggers would like to see it work.
Is there a connection between blogging and communities? I gave a presentation on this topic recently, and this is what I had to say.
Tim Thomas contacted me in regards cultivating communities of practice for people in the natural sciences, biologists in particular.
Martin Dugage has a relevant piece for me today: "Collaboration tools for communities of practice." An email discussion group I belong to vanished and is rebuilding itself in two directions: either as email discussion or a message board.
Martin Dugage writes about a blogging executive, who has built social/trust capital via a weekly forum he has written for three years.
I attended the Web2.0 and Communities distributed conference from CPSquare during the past four weeks. It was very instructive to me, as a person fairly well versed in the technology end of the spectrum. There are some lessons about online conferences to be learned as well.
Amy Gahran has a nice list of "10 Reasons Why Blogs Are an Awkward Conversation Tool" that talks about how blogs hinder the flow of a conversation. I agree, and yet conversation still happens.
Rashmi Sinha has another nice piece on tagging, "A social analysis of tagging." I like the way Rashmi talks about the blurry line between the individual act of tagging and the social use of those tags.
Howard Rheingold links to an interesting look at social networking services in "Unraveling the Taste Fabric of Social Networks." Short version: the authors describe a mechanism for describing people's interests as a fabric of tastes with some browsability components.
During the CPSquare conference on Web 2.0 and Communities of Practice , someone referenced Barn Raising as a means for the initial build-out on a wiki. What a nice way to think about building a community-needed structure.
I met David Eads of FREE GEEK Chicago (and several other place). If you are in or near Chicago and have use technology or your own time to donate, look them up.
The November 8th meeting of KM Chicago will be on "Community of Practices at the North Suburban Library System."
Nancy White asked for clarification of my comments about shared context in some types of online communities.
Kris Olson at Wiki That suggests that "What's Missing Is a 'Home' for Groups" in response to Clive Thompson's life hacking article. I suspect wiki's aren't quite enough, and I don't know where we will end up.
efios points to "Identifying Communities of Pracice" from the Shadbolt research group. They have created Ontocopi to parses an ontology to decipher the knowledge networks represented therein.
Ed Vielmetti writes that shared context is important and that it is getting lost, particularly for people who are all-virtual-all-the-time. Shared context is important because of the sense of trust it creates, which enables work.
Some incomplete thinking: What happens to a topic-centric space as the interest of the participants shifts? Does this relate to categorization and folksonomy?
Denham Grey and Paul Hartzog and I thinking about conversation and extending the social network.