Facilitating online communication 08

Os dejo hoy un resumen de la Primera Unidad del Curso de Facilitación de Comunidades Online en el que participo, considerando que puede ser de utilidad a diversas disciplinas, desde la educación al márketing social. El curso se desarrolla en inglés (paso a traducir este mismo artículo) pero he creído que a algunos lectores podrían seros de interés algunas de sus conclusiones. Lo iré haciendo al finalizar cada unidad. Se trata de un ejercicio de síntesis y aportación personal. Podéis ver las fuentes teóricas de las que parto, las que matizo según mi experiencia, al final del artículo

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This one describes Google reader

As we are discussing the different RSS readers, I thought I'd bookmark the ones Marie mentioned in one of the posts

re-inventing the message-board

"Why is Userplane getting into message boards now, when the format has seemingly been supplanted by other forms of online community? According to Product Manager Shane Hall, who I spoke with last week, Boards represents a happy medium between passive and real-time conversation."

About blogging and being social, and the new wordpress and moveable type

As a society, we are entering an increasingly narcissistic phase, enabled by web technologies - a theory that is articulated in Wired's recent cover story. As the Wired writer quips, "Like it or not, we are all public figures now - famous, as the new cliché goes, for 15 people."

is traditional blogging on its way out? Is this the future of blogging/social networks?

The future of blogging - the arrival of Lifestreaming

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?

interesting article about how social media has been used as "social hacking" - A CNN survey regarding Russias attack on Georgia was hacked by russian sociale media, resulting in a CNN opinion poll giving 92% support for the views of the Russian Government - what does this say about the behavior of social communities?

Here you'll find resources for learning management systems, social networking communities for students and teachers, tutoring services and more.

measuring the ROI of online communities

20 free ebooks on social media