but the point here is that the content is blogs which are a social ecosystem where you have distributed conversations (trackbacks/linkbacks), and leave comments * you can now converse with your friends * Forums and Communities of Practice like Ning are conversational portals of information with people you often interact with and help out due to the reciprocal nature of a community - Social search is resurfacing as a hot topic of late , due to how effective Twitter has become in helping you find information, and how it is close to how we source information in the offline world (via our network).

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Next is to create conditions for people to use the community; you need interactions and conversation to grow the community. It’s about conversation • It’s not all about the blog post itself - it’s about the the conversations that the blog post triggers (this will build community spirit…like a thriving dinner party…you will go to the next one as you enjoyed the company and stimulation of the previous one) - people are more prone to comment, rather than blog or write a forum topic - don’t have to be provocative, but even when posting about

I’m not going to list them, but what we get to do is express, share, ask, receive, connect, converse, communicate, coordinate…the problogger video says it all . We can see Twitter is more open, a platform, and can be used both to publish and converse (as Clay Shirky mentions the blur between communications and broadcasting) Forums are more focused collaborative My first post on Twitter was back in October 2006, and since then Twitter has come a long way; evolved from the architecture of participation, and the emergence of the platform . Back in

I think this is the main difference here , if you want to build a topic hub (a clearing house on a topic, as well as learning from each other whilst you’re building your practice via conversations), you need a community, people become members of a shared space, which is a commitment to contributing to the aim. manager asks a question, and requests people to tag their posts with a unique tag, then all answers/conversations can be aggregated . A while back I blogged about the possibility of networks and blogospheres cutting into the need for communities. I

was looking for something where a conversation could revolve around a task object. 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 . Finally a task/conversation lives at a URL…but it’s not a blog, wiki, forum, online doc, but instead a task/conversation thread that can be made up of elements from different object types. 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.

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lot of the time it’s not what they are after, they didn’t realise “communities are conversations”, and they were just after more of a document management (DM) type thing. The additional feature of our communities is that we can also have conversations using blogs and forums, that replace and make less messy what happens in emails, and much more…it’s about awareness, discovery and connecting with people, participating, conversations, evolving content, and learning. This is a follow-up to my Community Lessons post, and Community paradox post.

That is a good summary of why I work so hard at teaching and hosting important conversations in organizations and communities.  Conversations are a very powerful simple systemic action, and serve to be a very important foundation for all manner of activities and capacities needed to tackle the increasing scale of issues in a system.  Collaboration, dialogue, visioning, possibility and choice creating, innovation, letting go of limiting beliefs, learning, Reading David Holmgren’s book on Permaculture right now, sitting on my front porch overlooking the garden that we have created using some of his principles. 

promised to send them ideas on conversations they might consider early on. While many groups will have similar descriptions of their purpose (learning, tap into the organisation's knowledge in the domain, solve problems faster, standardise practices etc), each group needs to have this conversation. In this conversation useful things to think about are things that will make the biggest difference for the domain and things that will make their work easier/better/more enjoyable/more rewarding. On Tuesday I worked with three new communities of practice in a government agency.