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 . offered in his book, The Virtual Community , "Virtual communities are social aggregations that emerge from the Net when enough people carry on those public discussions

Specialist transfer (transfer of explicit knowledge about a task not performed on a regular basis) This is a typical case where a listserve may work. (just I went to the local library because they had purchased their first book on weblogs (apparently Rosmalen is about to enter blogosphere). But someone had borrowed it already and I bumped into Nancy Dixon's book on 'Kennisoverdracht in organisaties'.

Most Linux hacker communication is not between individuals but by postings to open, searchable Listservs. Anyone can review the version history of the code and the Listserv debates�not executive summaries or abstracts but the raw activity itself. Linux developers produce state-of-the-art software using communication technology no more sophisticated than e-mail and Listservs�but those mundane tools are used by everyone. How Toyota and Linux Keep Collaboration Simple 8/1/2005 The Toyota and Linux communities illustrate time-tested techniques for collaboration under pressure: Share knowledge widely, frequently, and in small increments, and use universally available tools to do it.

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SCD and Intercooperation have commissioned a study called Experiences with communities of practice in India , an important resource published in december 2005. A wide variety of groups and networks were studied, like a farmers group producing a journal, an exchange programme, a listserv and email discussion group, and information sharing group on livelihoods and gender equity and a group championing women's rights. The ‘group’ It is a good study looking at exisiting CoPs in the development sector in India. The important features of the groups has been the leadership provided by a few

Personal InfoCloud « Social Tools for Mergers and Acquisitions | Main | Getting Info into the Field with Extension » Explaining the Granular Social Network This post on Granular Social Networks has been years in the making and is a follow-up to one I previously made in January 2005 on Granular Social Networks as a concept I had been presenting and talking about for quite some time at that point. The Facebook groups as well as listserves and other group lists need to grasp the nature of individuals interests and provide the means to explicitly or implicitly start

Teresa Burgess studied a longlasting listserv community of nurses and found 8 critical components; shared purpose, trust, guidelines, humor, flexibility, accessibility, expert facilitation, and storytelling. The 2005 Sustaining Community – Incentive Mechanisms in Online Systems report concluded that successful communities provided a range of incentives for participation. Home About Terry Anderson Virtual Canuck Teaching and Learning in a Net-Centric World Feed on Posts comments CatchingTumbleweeds October 24, 2006 by Terry Anderson Many of the sites I’ve been involved with over they years have gracefully (and some not so gracefully) atrophied away - usually through lack of posting/input or contribution.

Over the last 12+ years, MirandaNet has developed into a mature, online community of practice (Preston, 1999, 2005). Some members act as e-facilitators or braiders who help to shape the argument, provide interim summaries and change the direction of the discussion (Preston, 2002; Preston & Holmes, 2002; Cuthell, 2005). It has been described by researchers as a CoP “with an active and passionate core’ (Stuckey, 2005, p. It’s taken a long time but since 1992 MirandaNet members have been learning how to communicate on line. Now an e-mature community our discussions are

Computer-supported networks, including activist media projects, Listservs, and websites, were mobilizing hundreds of thousands of protesters, constituting “transnational counterpublics” (Olesen 2005) for the diffusion of alternative information. Book: Jeffrey Juris. Networking Futures : The Movements Against Corporate Globalization.