meeting of minds of researchers and practitioners from all over the world, generalizability and reusability of research ideas and the practical impact Framing community informatics research informatics research and practice cannot be seen separately. From Oct 27-30, 2008, the 5th Community Informatics & Development Informatics conference was was held in Prato, Italy. 

While exploring this theme as part of the content of my research was somewhat expected, I did not realise how much reflecting on practices of others and my blogging experiences in that respect would challenge my research methodology-wise. Blogging research not only turned into participatory research and involving others as co-researchers . In my dissertation I describe uses of weblogs as a sense-making instrument that provides a way to deal with unexpected or complex ideas by supporting articulation and organising ideas at a personal level combined with distributed collaborative thinking in “ sense-making networks “.

We initiated the Online Community Culture study in October of 2008, as part of the ongoing research agenda of the Online Community Research Network. We had over 75 participants in the research, representing many sectors, including software, tech, traditional media, social media and online community, and non-profits. Individual responses to feedback submitters, within one business day, from me or my team, providing The intention of the study was to get a broad look at the factors that influence online community culture, and the steps community managers and strategists take in cultivating, and in some cases influencing, a community’s culture.

have conflicting views about the ethics of online peer project research. And now: What do Wikipedia’s unique features, both in terms of its democratic promise and its socio-technical characteristics, mean for the ethics of Internet research? Wikipedia research necessarily involves dealing with conflict. First, some background: In the chapter of my book Cyberchiefs on governance in the English-language Wikipedia, there is a section, as in all my case studies, which deals with conflict. Within this section there is a sub-section which focuses on the management of disruptive

Online Community Engagement: Recent Research Friday, July 18. 2008 We conducted the Online Community Marketing, Growth and Engagement research study in May of this year, as part of the continuing efforts of the Online Community Research Network. The full report is available to Online Community Research Network members. Our goal was to gain insight into how people are measuring engagement in their online communities and to understand how many organizations were using an elite / influencer program, and how those programs were structured.

Scientific research that eventually leads to new products in pharma, energy, biotechnology, aerospace, agriculture and other industries can take more than a decade from ideation to product distribution. We will next address how this work is carrying forward into regional innovation networks and intellectual capital formation. Tags: innovation networks research network Improve Network Phase Changes to Bring Ideas to Market Faster Many industries are challenged by very long time periods from an initial discovery to full commercialization of a product. How can this enormously

Michel addresses his most frequently asked question "So what is P2P anyway?" Michel Bauwens is an active writer, researcher and conference speaker on the subject of technology, culture and business innovation. He is the founder of the Foundation for Peer-to-Peer Alternatives and works in collaboration with a global group of researchers in the exploration of peer production, governance, and property. Michel Bauwens is founder of the Foundation for Peer-to-Peer Alternatives which explores "peer production, governance, and property" and resonates in many ways with Bioteams .

Behind my PhD research is an interest in translating practices of early adopters of weblogs into something that those that come after them might use: an understanding of relative advantage of blogging in knowledge-intensive environments and it’s compatibility with existing practices. Blogging is likely to bring cultural shifts to be addressed and lessons to be learnt**: Below is another piece from the final chapter of my dissertation, the one where I draw the implications of my findings for an individual knowledge worker, a pragmatist, who wants to know what blogging might bring for him in order to decide if it is worth the effort. [There

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How do we get the general public to pressure governments to open up research results so that other people can more easily build on it? Fernhout’ s text is a reaction to a proposal for a research funding proposal for green research around the concept of dual licensing, to which we may return. But his contribution can be read on its own, as a call to restore the now privatized research commons (at least in the U.S.). Paul D. Paul D.