It started in a innocent enough way when, in a discussion about knowledge sharing and generation on the KM4Dev listserve, somebody cited the DIKW model as a way of describing how knowledge is generated in organisations. This provoked Dave Snowden into some sharp but illuminating posts (by the way, if you ever get bored and feel like doing some Dave-baiting, get yourself a false identity, sign up to one of the listserves he frequents, and make an enthusiastic post about DIKW, wisdom management, Ayn Rand or KM certification - or any combination thereof): “I That most hallowed of mental models and glib explanations, the Data-Information-Knowledge-Wisdom hierarchy has taken a bit of a beating this week.

Part of grasping the problem is a lack of quickly understanding the complexity, which leads to deconstructing and getting to two variables: 1) people (their identities online and their personas on various services) and 2) interests. The Facebook groups as well as listserves and other group lists need to grasp the nature of individuals interests and provide the means to explicitly or implicitly start to understand and use these as filter options over time. Personal InfoCloud « Social Tools for Mergers and Acquisitions | Main | Getting Info into the Field with Extension » Explaining the Granular Social Network This post on Granular Social Networks has been years in the making and is a follow-up to one I previously made in January 2005 on Granular Social Networks as a concept I had been presenting and talking about for quite some time at that point.

can tell you the one about the KMCI debacle which helped get ActKM started, the one about how the listserver system went haywire and we introduced moderation and the one about the YahooGroups being deleted . The difference between a network & community is one of identity. While I agree with the sentiment regarding identity and community I would also point out that Im an ANU Home What we do Keynote Speaking About Us Whitepapers Anecdote Associates Clients Contact us Categories Anecdotes Blogging Books Change management Collaboration Communities of practice Complexity Culture Expertise location Facilitation Fun Intervention design Knowledge Knowledge circulation Most Significant Change Narrative News Newsletter Open space Questions Quotes Sensemaking Social networks Storytelling Strategy « Management can kill a community of practice | Main | Getting into a sensemaking mindset » 31/07/06 | The difference

offered in his book, The Virtual Community , "Virtual communities are social aggregations that emerge from the Net when enough people carry on those public discussions long enough, with sufficient human feeling, to form webs of personal relationships in cyberspace." "Towntalk ," a listserv on online community (now defunct) offered this description in 1999: "We define a virtual community this way: 1) It is interactive and built on the concept of many-to-many communications...; Marc Smith and Peter Kollock edited a fascinating collections of essays in their 1999 book, Communities

The AMA SIGs began life as a listserv and now have some additional online functionality. Shared? Is there the useful level of identity for members? (Sometimes Single IDs, portable identity tools kick in on the tech side. Home About Contact Divas Blogroll The Diva Marketing Blog Approach To Blog Strategy GO » Looking for a presentation or workshop on blogs, eMarketing, marketing for non marketers? GO »

Being on the field provides members with a sense of identity—both in the individual sense and in a contextual sense, that is, how the individual relates to the community as a whole. 1 A sense of identity is important because it determines how an individual directs his or her attention. Therefore, identity shapes the learning process. Home Products & services Support & downloads My account Select a country

Eventually the title was passed to an anonymous purchaser who—despite the city’s efforts to protect his identity—was soon revealed to be one Gregg Singer, a small-time property developer from the Upper West Side. This was almost impossible, but it meant that the entire activist community that used Charas was subject to instantaneous “Singer alerts”: the new landlord was obliged to announce visits with prospective tenants three hours in advance, so Charas would then send a message immediately over activist listservs, as well as their own phone trees, calling everyone available to dash down

Online socialization and formulation of online identities In MirandaNet, this kind of learning has been observed since 2000, when the community had gained a mature capacity to use the listserv to enrich their professional learning. Communities of practice: Learning, meaning, and identity . It’s taken a long time but since 1992 MirandaNet members have been learning how to communicate on line. Now an e-mature community our discussions are becoming more and more sophisticated.

People already interact on listservs and email. Whoever the sponsor is (corp perspective) is present and active in community Participants are aware of their options of how they participate Can easily discover resources from sponsor and community members Not only can they easily discover, but contribute and connect Identity Healthy and vibrant – sort of fuzzy catch all People motivated, passion, energy, impetus for participation. Home About Full Circle Contact Resources Wiki Full Circus Full Circle Associates connections for a changing world, online and offline… Mar 13 2008 Notes from the Seattle Online Community Meetup Published by Nancy White at 4:45 pm under events , online interaction , technology stewardship These are notes from the

This special issue, edited by Aleks Krotoski, aims to create a compendium of case studies and theoretical frameworks which future scholars will reference when designing their own analyses of populations and practices in social networking sites, weblogs, listservs, online games, video sharing sites, virtual worlds and other Web environments that demonstrate evidence of community processes. Negotiating the online-offline identity (both research participants/subjects and investigator) - The International Journal of Internet Research Ethics (IJIRE) seeks papers from researchers describing best ethical practices in the investigation of online communities.