Meantime I dont have the concentration to sit through a webinar or webcast (or even a telephone conference presentation) so Im missing opportunities to learn through good examples. Home Blog Services Portfolio Info social learning people different discourse education culture practice communities online community work knowledge cultural world practices time literacy international information Powered by RafCloud 2.0.2 Social reporter - old school If you

It was published in the Knowledgeboard on the 24th of September 2004 , and it started a very nice conversation (there, and in the old KB forums). It We can find reasons and extreme examples that argue for both points of view. That was the title. The subtitle was “The challenge of sustainable socialisation”.

The example which struck me was the example of the MBTI synergy group: The MBTI Synergy Group was a spontaneous creation of all the people who attended the MBTI accreditation course in April, 2004. (MBTI SCD and Intercooperation have commissioned a study called Experiences with communities of practice in India , an important resource published in december 2005. It is a good study looking at exisiting CoPs in the development sector in India.

Since I'm always on the outlook for practical examples, I am very grateful to be able to sit in on a brown bag lunch in the US! The community of practice in Brasil focuses on poverty alleviation and social inlusion in Northern Regions in Brasil, and started as a World Bank initiative in 2004 out of a need to develop more practical, low-cost solutions to local economic development. (in the picture you see Monica Amorim from Brasil) Erik Johnson from the World Bank sent me the link to the World Bank video of a brown-bag lunch about client communities of practice on October 23 at the World Bank.

In fact the traditional villages and historical military troop sizes that Dunbar analyzed are probably the best examples of such an incentive, since they were built upon the raw need for survival. Dunbar & Online Communities Ultima Online provides one of the best examples of what sizes an online community will support because its well documented and the overall game size is large enough to generate many smaller communities. Life With Alacrity Alacrity, noun . From the Latin alacritus meaning promptitude.

Fun examples of social graphs are slander & libel -- the official computer scene sexchart and the Mark Foley Blame chart . Social Graph Application: An application that requires or is improved by the creation of a social graph describing the context specific relationships between it’s users is a social graph application. Examples of applications that require a social graph to actually be usable are instant messaging applications like Skype and Windows Live Messenger . Dare Obasanjo aka Carnage4Life Truth, Justice and the Pursuit of Excellent Software Navigation for Dare Obasanjo aka Carnage4Life - The Difference between a Social Network Site, a Social Graph Application and a Social OS Content Sidebar Footer August 30, 2007 @ 09:18 AM Comments [6] The Difference between a Social Network Site, a Social Graph Application and a Social OS Recently someone at work asked me if I thought

In 2004 Drew Westen and his colleagues put together an experiment to see how people of a particular political persuasion (Democrat or Republican) make sense of new information. Here are two examples: Democrat example Initial statement (Slide 1) : During the first Gulf War, John Kerry wrote to a constituent: "Thank you for contacting me to express your opposition ... Drew is a neuroscientist and advises political candidates on how to garner voter support. In this experiment he scanned the brains of 15 committed Democrats and 15 committed Republicans while showing

guess it was fueled by his passion to help fellow learners in "Toward a Just and Sustainable World Created by Community" Another example was intelligent conversations I had with a 64 year old guy (Im 27 by the way) on his project called Global Assembly Dialog. From these personal examples in my WiserEarth participation, another thing to add to your arsenal in the theory of social networks would be: "the congruency of the goal of, and the expectations of participants in the network, will be exponentially reflected in the outcome of the interactions within the network." (you should be

Orkut, for example, was launched in the United States with an English-only interface, but Portuguese-speaking Brazilians quickly became the dominant user group (Kopytoff, 2004). Friendster gained traction among three groups of early adopters who shaped the site—bloggers, attendees of the Burning Man arts festival, and gay men (boyd, 2004)—and grew to 300,000 users through word of mouth before traditional press coverage began in May 2003 (OShea, 2003). JCMC Home Submit Issues Author Index Editors About JCMC boyd, d.

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