For the next in our series of Online Community Examples we are looking at examples of online communities in the travel industry The three examples below show different ways in which companies in the travel industry are using online communities to engage their customers with a view to increasing customer loyalty. As with many great examples of online communities , On the Go with Amy is simple concept, but one that delivers Online communities in the travel industry The travel industry is one well suited to online communities focused on engagement.

On one hand, a wiki is just a web site thats easy for anyone to edit - see Mahalo for example, another Mediawiki-based community. See the Digg-spy style Site Scout , for example. Related Resources If youre interested in the wacky world of wikis, heres an RSS feed of blog posts about wikis (filtered with FeedRinse to remove mentions of Jotspot just because thats going to clog the airwaves for the next 48 hours), heres a wonderful ReadWriteWeb ReadWriteWeb ReadWriteTalk Enterprise Jobwire About Subscribe Contact Advertise RSS RWW Daily by Email RSS RWW Weekly Wrap-up Home Products Trends Best of RWW Archives Wikia Open Sources Social Networking - Focused Networking Now Open to All Written by Marshall Kirkpatrick / February 28, 2008 10:22 AM / 6 Comments « Prior Post Next Post » Wikia , the independent commercial wiki site

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

Share your own experience, for example, replying to the wrong person in an email. Same and different Put the participants in groups - and ask participants to find something that the group has in common (eg 'everyone has been to France' and something that is unique to each person in the group (eg 'plays waterpolo', 'speaks Greek', 'was born in Leeds'). For the third time I was going through all my resources- files and bookmarks to find online icebreakers. I

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Yet they would probably also agree that e-mail, the most widely used example of such collaborative technology, is less than ideally suited to the task. And it is a classic example of a “good enough” tool. The rise of web-mail, instant messaging and web-based applications within companies are all examples of the broader trend of “consumerisation” of technology. Skip to main navigation Skip to main content ); Home This weeks print edition Daily news analysis Opinion All opinion Leaders Letters to the Editor Blogs Columns KALs cartoons Correspondents diary Economist debates World politics All world politics Politics this week United States The Americas

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