Not my usual reading, but C. Wess Daniels has been doing some thinking on community. "Some Problems with Online Christian Communities | And Why You Should Stay Away."
All in community
Not my usual reading, but C. Wess Daniels has been doing some thinking on community. "Some Problems with Online Christian Communities | And Why You Should Stay Away."
Communities and Communties of Practice, are they related? Are they different?
Andy Roberts links to a discussion by Miguel Cornejo Castro. Essentially, the question is whether blogs build or tear apart other online communities (listservs, online forums, etc.). The answer: it depends.
Maggie Fox has some familiar thoughts on "How Social Media is Changing Everything." I like this take on how and why communities of interest have grown with the expansion of social media.
I've always been entertained by Ze Frank's video postcards, but I was never a regular. For the March 13th show, he assembled a series of 15-seconds-or-less videos from his fans. Most are "thanks for the show," and there are a number that are quite touching. Communities need a rallying point -...
Chicago Tribune business columnist, Barbara Rose, had a piece on the importance of "face time" yesterday.
Jim McGee is thinking about "enterprise 2.0" and the importance of thinking styles.
Mukund Mohan documents a case study that talks about what engages a community: interesting questions.
Two funny things came across the aggregator today. The first is Mukund Mohan's tongue-in-cheek interview from the future, and the second is Valdis Krebs' find of a web gizmo that brings that future closer than I thought.
Phil Wainewright has some thoughts around "Solving the 1:10:100% problem" of community participation: don't worry about it and focus on the people creating useful content.
I joined a group of about a dozen Chicago Bloggers last night at Columbia College to talk about setting up new blogs and getting business with blogs.
I came across "How to measure effect of communities at the macro level?" by Mukund Mohan at the same time that I've been thinking about the reasons organizations look into communities. These ideas fit together nicely.
I love the concept of charitable reading posted by Meredith Farkas. Assume the best in what you read online, not the worst.
Christopher Koch at CIO (Magazine) Blogs has a very strong opinion about the claim that web 2.0 automatically creates "community."
Andy Roberts posted some questions about designing Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) pages to a couple mailing lists and to his blog. Specifically, he was looking for advice on structuring long FAQ's. Here are some of my thoughts.
The Out There Presentation (pdf) by Attention Company has been getting some attention in the past week. They discuss the characteristics of people who are active in online conversations and communities.
Remember my invitation for Working solo, together? Harold Jarche has pointed to Jerome Martin's Cappuccino U, which describes the idea in more detail.
Martin Roell has been interviewed by Michael Rossa of Siemens AG about the "Blog 100" effort that Siemens has been running internally (testing blogs for 100 days).
A regular reader contacted me to see if I knew anything about MasterMind Groups. I don't (beyond what I have below), but I wonder if any of my readers do.
Bill Bruck discovered something new in a white paper by Shawn Callahan I had blogged before. Specifically, he discovered an interesting comment about the difference between a community and a network with reference to blogging communities.