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Blog by Josh Bernoff, December 11, 2007 on the POST method: A Systematic Approach to Social Strategy. POST stands for people, objectives, strategy, and technology, another way of organizing work instead of the 5 Ps (purpose, people, problem, product, and then process). Believe this is relevant to our course, too.

This organization works with New York City public schools to establish innovative strategies that make success more likely for struggling students. The organization offers a website, The KnowledgeBase (https://knowledgebase.newvisions.org), that offers toolkits, strategies, resources and networking.

By Michael Feldstein on the blog e-Literate, May 13 2012. In the context of last year's NERCOMP LMS Unconference, Feldstein first explains the concept of an unconference and then describes his own (successful) strategy to giving the keynote. Along the way, he defines a third way of teaching (or conducting a conference), in opposition to "guide on the side" or "sage on the stage," he suggests "guide on the stage," while acknowledging that each of these methods is correct and has its proper place/time/audience.

Many of Feldstein's ideas about "priming the pump," unconferences, and "guide on the stage" might be useful in Jams as well.

MDEC serves post-secondary education in Michigan with a network for educators to research and share best practices, refine strategies for quality programs, and to advocate for developmental education. This is not an online network - most meetings "held using a conference call format."

" Twitter Strategy Search ROI Policy Metrics Marketing Influence Google+ Facebook Events Trending: Pinterest Super Bowl Social Search SOPA Webinars Posted by: Tammy Kahn Fennell Posts About Comments Connect Follow: Twitter LinkedIn Facebook website The Next Big Thing? Social Lead Curation"

Press release from The Century Foundation, Feb 2 2012. With President Obama's increasing emphasis on community colleges, "The Century Foundation is assembling a task force of distinguished individuals from two-year and four-year institutions, scholars of higher education, and representatives of the business, philanthropic, and civil rights communities to consider strategies to strengthen community colleges. "

Published by the Center for Community College Student Engagement (CCCSE), 2012. This is the first of three annual reports to look at "strategies that appear to be associated with a variety of indicators of student progress and success." For more on this project, follow the tag CCCSE.

Published by staff from Forum One, "The Online Community Report features best practices, strategies, research, and events for Online Community and Social Media professionals," per About the OC Report. Editors include Jim Cashel, Heather Virga, and other Forum One staff.

Presented by the Knight Digital Media Center, these presentations are described as "multimedia and internet technology training workshops," on topics like Digital Storytelling ("How to tell stories with Data (Reallly)") and Web 2.0 Training ("Digital Visualization Strategy and Workflow" or "Data Visualization on a Budget"). While the workshops are geared to journalists, many of the lessons might be relevant to those in other public-facing fields as well.

By Amanda Coffey and Paul Atkinson, Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications, 1996. This book forwards the idea of qualitative researchers using a single data set analyzing using a number of different techniques.

This blog, part of The Broker, an online magazine published by the Foundation for International Development Publications, appears to have been created around the 'Innovation Dialogue on Being Strategic in the Face of Complexity' conference, organized by Wageningen University and Research Centre, Nov 30 and Dec 1, 2009. All posts pertain to the conference. There are also user comments.

From their welcome, "The Public Science Project is dedicated to the advancement of participatory action research as a strategy for a more just world." The project is based out of CUNY's Grad Center (NYC).

Public Science Project has helped us to process some recent surveys (2011).

Organization "brings together game design, rigorous research practices and strong interdisciplinary partnerships to create, study and promote game-based materials, strategies and systems as critical tools for personal and social development."

By M. Ginsburg and S. Weisband, Proceedings of the 37th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences - 2004. Written in 2004, this article is somewhat dated (e.g. before the notion of the "social network" really took hold). That said, the article looks at a subscription-based virtual community, the Internet Chess Club, and finds that the real key to success is a carefully structured 3-tier approach to volunteering. Some volunteers help/coach new users; others are available to handle administrative tasks and volunteer managers run on-demand tournaments. Volunteers gain status and recognition, as well as the benefit of a private sub-community in which they can communicate with each other. NOTE: As of Jan 2012, the club is still in existence.

Librarian notes: While much here does not apply to the current manifestation of our e-communities, the structure and function of the various volunteer roles is very interesting, as is the "communication segmentation strategies" to filter out information overload. An impressive database of the community's work (in this case chess matches) is discussed as well.

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