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Home About Full Circle Resources Contact Us Full Circus Full Circle Associates connections for a changing world, online and offline… Friday, April 01, 2005 How Some Folks Have Tried to Describe Community - Update 2005 In 1999 I wrote an article entitled How Some Folks Have Tried to Describe Community . recent thread on Corantes Many2Many group blog prompted me to update this article. It was always a useful touchstone of definitions from some of the leading thinkers of the time.

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David RD Gratton Blog About Beyond Communities of Interest, Communities do not Exist July 3, 2005 My company has been working with what we have been calling Information Clouds, and I came upon Thomas Vanderwals body of work. For those of you who made it this far, I would enjoy learning about your opinion on the matter. [UPDATE - July 10, 2007] Seems this blog post has gotten some interest thanks to Om Malik Im missing most of this

I have some articles I read which I found interesting, and the blog is an opportunity to review them and draw out the main points. By the way, this is not my office, but a library in one of the ministries in Ghana. I just thought it's nice to continue with a picture for each posting.

This list also includes policies called; Staff blogging policies, enterprise social network guidelines, Employee Blogging Policies, Staff engagement in online communities, and so on. Electronic Frontier Foundation How to Blog Safely about Work  [link] Harvard Law School Blogs Terms of Use   [link] Managing staff who participate in social networks. I’ve done a few press (radio, print) interviews this week re: Telstra so I thought I should have another look at how Enterprise, Government, Corporates, Not for Profits  are handling the fact that their staff

I searched to find out about the number of people blogging in the South. The blogherald reports on over 50 million blogs in April 2005. In KM4Dev someone linked to Will blogs change development thinking? Anyhow, they are quite optimistic and think blogging can improve the quality of debate. Counting local services it's reported that there are 2 million in China, 1 million in South America and an insignificant number in Africa, though there is a growing number of bloggers in South Africa (must be due to Brenda who started there :)). BlogAfrica is a collection

Hi, this is a test to blog by e-mail. If it works, it would be easier for people with low-bandwith problems. (you you can type offline and send all your mails at once, when you are connected). Test, test, tes

It's such a funny experience to get comments on your blog.. (unfortunately blog for myself to order my thoughts in the writing process, but then sharing the URL and reading comments is exciting, especially when it triggers new thoughts! While blogging you do have some sort of audience in mind, because you have to make a decision about about the level of explanations you give. unfortunately I don't have a dog, otherwise the dogfeed comment would have been useful as well :-)). I

Britt Bravo has a great post on how to start blogging . At some point I started listing the blogs I was reading haphazardly in bloglines (now I have 22). Somehow when you are blogging, it gives you more of an interest (or excuse) to read other blogs systematically, I only started reading these blogs systematically when I started blogging myself. It's basically the process I went through, plus I tried to get some help and feedback from people before I started. And I'm terribly lazy with adding new things like a subscription feature, trackback, tagging,