At work one of our teams is using a community space in order to use a forum to crowdsource ideas for continuous improvement. There is an indirect value in all the stuff that happened along the way; I learnt so much, I met new people (for future communities and collaboration), and all these people feel valued and recognised…watch out, the mailroom guy may have your next strategic innovation. the bottom-up content is driving the forums to be created, We got 400 posts in 2 weeks. Our forum is basic so we don’t have the features that come with crowdsource designed

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Not long ago I posted on how broad communities can be a fertile ground to sprout new communities, and I also posted about a crowdsourcing exercise to create a community/s. From then on our idea jam will turn into a perpetual idea’s community, not quite the sophistication of Spigit , but at least we have momentum. Without our online communities: - the SIDENOTE - after this crowdsourcing exercise the next step it to organise the ideas into categories. Each category will be a new forum, our job is to move ideas into the correct forum.

This is a really interesting wiki which tries to identify networks and communities of interest who are showing up on twitter. ...Tags: Tags: howto community community_indicators communities_of_practice twitte

Smith) forth coming book, Digital Habitats: stewarding technology for communities . Here’s what Nancy says about community orientation: “In our research of CoPs we noticed 9 general patterns of activities that characterized a community’s orientation. They give you a lens to reflect on how your community is doing and where you might want it to be headed. “ Nancy White has been generous to share a section out of a chapter of her co-authored (Etienne Wenger and John. D

We initiated the Online Community Culture study in October of 2008, as part of the ongoing research agenda of the Online Community Research Network. 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. We had over 75 participants Respondents seniority skewed towards Manager (44%), Directors & VP's (12%). Key Factors Establishing an Online Community's Culture One

Matt Simpson has a kicker of a post in regards to a scenario that happens to me all the time…which you would expect from someone who deals with enterprise online communities on a daily basis. The post title says it all, The Manager Who Thought He Could Create a Community . “I had a meeting today with a manager who thought he could create a community. He was troubled that the community didn’t really work well. It really made him angry.”

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In the latter half of 2008, we worked with a number of companies to establish communities of practice. In training the people with key roles in the communities (such as the coordinator, core team members and those with support roles outside the communities) a common question arose..."what Nonetheless, we have had a crack at listing the four things that community coordinators should focus on to get things going: what do we do first?" Of Of

Robin asked me about the differences between communities and networks and this 3 minute recording captures my views. continue to be focused on the space between communities and networks, thinking that this is the sweet spot for so many things people are trying to do. Maybe you AREN’T looking for a community, eh? Last month in Rome Robin Good took me to a park, put me in a funny little bicycle car and we drove around the park recording our conversations. Nice job, Robin!