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Course Meetings? - 15 views

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Social Graphs of On-line Communities and Social Networking Sites - 0 views

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  • Communities have various levels of belonging.
  • the isolates [lurkers] outnumber the highly-connected.
  • Lurkers in online communities are often more than 60% of the group
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  • The green nodes have a few connections -- usually with prior acquaintances.
  • The core members will stay and build the community. Unfortunately they are in the minority. The core nodes are usually less than 20%
  • To build a vibrant and growing OLC, you need to support natural human behavior, not work against it.
  • Connections are key
  • The core are analyzable and knowable -- they can be mapped, measured, and molded
  • Growing a community is not just adding new members. It requires adding both people and relationships -- nodes AND links.
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CoP: Best Practices - 0 views

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  • Etienne Wenger
    • Gabriela Sellart
      Gabriela Sellart on 02 Aug 08
  • communities of practice are fundamentally self-organizing systems.
  • shared practice
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  • not a new kind of organizational unit; rather, they are a different cut on the organization's structure–one that emphasizes the learning that people have done together
  • outsiders and newcomers learn the practice in concrete terms, and core members gain new insights from contacts with less-engaged participants
  • defined by knowledge rather than by task
  • produces a shared practice as members engage in a collective process of learning
  • develop the knowledge that lets them do these other tasks
  • development ultimately depends on internal leadership.
  • have intrinsic legitimacy in the community
  • They are nodes for the exchange and interpretation of information.
  • They can retain knowledge in "living" ways
  • They can steward competencies to keep the organization at the cutting edge
  • They provide homes for identities.
  • Identity is important because, in a sea of information, it helps us sort out what we pay attention to, what we participate in, and what we stay away from.
  • recognizing the work of sustaining them
  • giving members the time to participate in activities
  • value communities bring is acknowledged
  • The art is to help such communities find resources and connections without overwhelming them with organizational meddling.
  • No community can fully design the learning of another; but conversely no community can fully design its own learning.
  • Communities of practice develop around things that matter to people. As a result, their practices reflect the members' own understanding of what is important. Obviously, outside constraints or directives can influence this understanding, but even then, members develop practices that are their own response to these external influences. Even when a community's actions conform to an external mandate, it is the community–not the mandate–that produces the practice.
    • Violeta Cautin
      Violeta Cautin on 11 Aug 08
       
      Choice? Communities are created because their members choose to belong and participate to them. The can't be imposed.
  • Across business units: Important knowledge is often distributed in different business units.
  • Communities of practice arise as people address recurring sets of problems together
  • Gabriela Sellart on 02 Aug 08
     
    Etienne Wenger
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20 Free eBooks About Social Media | chrisbrogan.com - 0 views

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    20 free ebooks on social media
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Teaching and Teching - 0 views

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  • At its core it is a personal community constructed by the individual. It is often thought online communities cross boundaries, however boundaries as constructed by the individual still exist.
    • Illya Arnet
      Illya Arnet on 08 Aug 08
       
      This has a lot to do with the way we have up until now experienced learning, lcommunication and life in general. We were raised to think linear, but online we move in circles, rippling out beyond outside our visual periferies.
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BBC NEWS | Technology | Pull down the walled gardens - 0 views

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shared by Joao Alves on 06 Aug 08 - Cached
  • Unlike the global internet, which enables virtually the entire world to connect, social networks have created very large, localised communities with far more limited international interaction.
    • Violeta Cautin
      Violeta Cautin on 06 Aug 08
       
      So social networking sites are creating big scale barries ... never thought of that, but makes a lot of sense.
    • Joao Alves
      Joao Alves on 07 Aug 08
       
      It seems that these localised communities can be seen as online communities. Can they? What do you think?
  • Peter Efland on 06 Aug 08
     
    About Walled Gardens and Social Networks "Unlike the global internet, which enables virtually the entire world to connect, social networks have created very large, localised communities with far more limited international interaction."
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  • Violeta Cautin on 06 Aug 08
     
    About Walled Gardens and Social Networks "Unlike the global internet, which enables virtually the entire world to connect, social networks have created very large, localised communities with far more limited international interaction."
  • Peter Efland on 06 Aug 08
     
    Indeed they are. Facebook is legendary for allowing a lot of users to enter information into Facebook, but not to be able to take it out again. At the same time there's a problem as google can't search Facebook. It will be interesting however, to see how the new Facebook Connect will work out, which is an attempt from Facebook to open up their walled garden - see http://bit.ly/ZKgwj
  • Peter Efland on 06 Aug 08
     
    ooops! sorry... obviously I have no clue how to control the comments here on Diigo, they keep coming up, somewhere else than where I thought they would be...
  • Joao Alves on 07 Aug 08
     
    About Walled Gardens and Social Networks "Unlike the global internet, which enables virtually the entire world to connect, social networks have created very large, localised communities with far more limited international interaction."
  • Peter Efland on 07 Aug 08
     
    @Joao: yes, I definitely think that local communities can be seen as online communities. In fact, according to Wikipedia, here online communities are described as: "Virtual communities depend upon social interaction and exchange between users online. This emphasizes the reciprocity element of the unwritten social contract between community members. Web 2.0 is essentially characterized by virtual communities such as Flickr, Facebook, and Del.icio.us. A similar trend is starting to emerge within businesses where online or virtual communities are taking hold. These communities can be organizational, regional or topical depending on the business." "Organizational, regional or topical" - I think we can add technical to this list. Btw. it seems like wiki use the terms "online" and "virtual" interchangeably. PS. Can anyone teach me how to make comments on Diigo? Why don´t comments automatically follow each other from oldest to newest? Mine seems to all be stuck together no matter what I do.
  • Joao Alves on 08 Aug 08
     
    Peter, have you installed the Diigo toolbar? If you haven't, do it. With the Diigo toolbar you can make comments, highlight, bookmark sites, add sticky notes, etc.
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KyleLacy.com » Blog Archive » Selling Social Media to Your Boss - 0 views

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  • Peter Efland on 08 Aug 08
     
    How do you sell a social media strategy to your employer? Better yet, how do you explain the benefits of social media in a business communication strategy?
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Roles in CoP's : The Learning Circuits Blog - 0 views

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  • Gabriela Sellart on 08 Aug 08
     
    model around the roles and interactions members of a community have as participants in that community.
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O'Reilly Network -- Building Online Communities - 0 views

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  • This attracts people who enjoy the company of like-minded individuals and seek the social rewards of participating in a healthy peer group
  • Illya Arnet on 08 Aug 08
     
    Looks like what we have in FOC08! I think many people were attracted by others. THis was my case, I was informed by a friend in one of my communities and mentioned it to others in another, the result being several more faces (or blogs) added to the course.
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Best Social Media Advice From This Site | chrisbrogan.com - 0 views

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  • Peter Efland on 07 Aug 08
     
    Incredible extensive source of tools, ideas, strategies for dealing with Social Media - a must read for anyone interested!
  • Peter Efland on 07 Aug 08
     
    If you guys read just one of the links I bookmark, then let it be this one...
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