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It was really hot on August 13, the last day of my vacation visiting my brothers in Puerto Rico. Tags: Communities of practice Evaluation Educatio But, in more ways than one, it was really cool inside the library at the University of Puerto Rico in Rio Piedras , where all of my friends from high school went to college. I I

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Social Media Group About SMG Clients Media 2008 Services The ROI of Communities - Part II by Maggie Fox | November 23rd, 2007 | Category: education Earlier this week I did some prep for a roundtable on the ROI of Communities at a conference held by the Canadian Marketing Association, and came across the most wonderful list of statistics, courtesy of Bill Johnston , and compiled by Joe Cothrel . Will David agree when he’s 18? This title’s just six words long.

While SNSs are often designed to be widely accessible, many attract homogeneous populations initially, so it is not uncommon to find groups using sites to segregate themselves by nationality, age, educational level, or other factors that typically segment society (Hargittai, this issue), even if that was not the intention of the designers. A History of Social Network Sites The Early Years According to the definition above, the first recognizable social network site launched in 1997. Wasow, personal communication, August 16, 2007). JCMC Home Submit Issues Author Index Editors About JCMC boyd, d.

In the process it has helped me to clarify Stephen Downe’s distinctions between groups and networks, the way that certain tools seem optimized for different levels of these granularities (for example blogs are better for networks than for groups) and it has helped us to create a rationale for use of collectives in formal education. In this post I provide graphic overviews of the three followed by a table comparing the three applications for educational use. Groups: Networks Collectives Social Learning 2.0 In the following table (click to enlarge)

We use this model in a number of ways: As a mental model for understanding all the areas and skill sets required for community management and hopefully, to remind community managers that it is about assembling a internal team to gather all the required skills – not to try and be the expert in all of them individually As a tool for community managers to educate and set the expectations of colleagues and advocates within the organization As a roadmap for community managers looking to understand what is important to do given their current state of evolution, and in what order To organize