I’ve written a fair bit about membership organisations and the impact that social media may have on them, and also helped start a project on the subject that’s now been taken forward by NCVO and RSA. Are they seeking donations to Support their activities? But as someone said to me the other day: “I get more from my Twitter friends that I do from membership The Carnegie UK Trust is also investigating civil society associations. I’m I’m

The challenge is to get some connection and integration - because the vertical organisations will have membership fees and closed spaces, while the horizontal ones will be more open. Josien has been following the development of The Membership Project , started by Simon Berry and I, because this open-closed issue is exactly the challenge faced by the RSA and other membership organisations. I’ve come away from the Powering a New Future conference in Lisbon with three interlocking reflections on developing the concept and practice of social reporting - and a new conclusion about what it means to be a social reporter.

You can do this on a wiki (with comments) or Google Docs (with comments), but the more robust tools I came across were Traction , Basecamp , and Activities on Lotus Connections . The latter is a little different as it’s an on-the-fly tool to perform and coordinate tasks/conversations similar to email, but with less annoyance…sometimes called Activity-Centric Collaboration . A little while ago I talked about not so much groupware, but a middle space, moreso activityware, where you create an object and invite people to add to it. I

I’ve written before about David’s metaphorical modelling, and this time we were discussing the future of RSA networks and other activities. Tags: asides rsa Organisations All posts membershi About 30 RSA Fellows and friends enjoyed an afternoon last week playing - very constructively - with Lego and plasticine under the guidance of David Gauntlett , Professor of Media and Communications at the University of Westminster. Excellent reports from Mike Amos-Simpson , Leon Cych and Tessy Britton . ...Tags:

Q: As a Co-Op, REI already has a passionate and active offline member community. Tags: Expert Interviews Featured Posts community management coop membership online community REI Social Media Strateg This month’s Online Community Expert interview is with Jordan Williams, Manager of Digital Engagement at REI. In this role, Jordan is responsible for creating deeper customer engagement through the creation of content and community touch points on REI.com and throughout the social web.

Ed Mitchell: Platform neutral Network and community design and facilitation; event design and facilitation. Blog About Ed Projects Services Membership engagement story December 6, 2007 – 5:05 pm Lyndsay Rees-Jones (CILIP Membership Support Advisor) and I gave another presentation about the CILIP membership communities at Online Information yesterday. Since talking about this project publicly, we have found that there are very few ‘community’ teams in HQs which are pragmatically integrated into the membership

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And Matt was riding this wave too: “Membership is often presented as a binary “yes,no” issue. I agree, your comment excellently hones in on how “membership” is defined and interpreted differently online. In Not to say membership is only about contributing, a members part in a community may be behind the scenes. Yesterday I posted, Internal communities where visitors can contribute just like members , and two great comments were left by Nancy White and Matt Moore . I I

Lessons for any blogging boss of a membership organisation: you can’t be half-hearted about social media. In terms of “official” activity, cyber life is just like real like - if it happens in a CILIP-sanctioned space, it’s official; if it happens down the pub or in someone else’s space, it isn’t. Over at the RSA another blogging boss, Matthew Taylor, is doing rather better in lively exchanges following a thoughtful post Bob McKee, CEO of CILIP - Chartered Institute of Library and and information Professionals - gets a roasting from Phil Bradley on a post “From the chief executive’s desk” which starts: