In my role as blogmeister for LCB I've done a lot of reading in the communities of practice literature to gain a better understanding of how online communities work. What causes high quality interaction or community disfunction and collapse. One model I've developed is around the roles and interactions members of a community have as participants in that community. Further influence came What can be done to enhance the community? I thought I'd share my model with the LCB community for feedback and discussion.

This is where self awareness and even separation between the role of facilitator and “knowledgable person” (some say “expert.” Role model passsion, and your own engagement. Build this into your process, especially at the start of an interaction when people don’t know each other and technology issues may not yet be sorted out. Candace Whitehead, the Facilitator Support Specialist for the Florida Online Reading Professional Development project  funded by the Florida DOE and housed at the University of Central Florida  [link] contacted me last month inviting me to participate in a web meeting with the cohort of online facilitators working in learning and particularly around literacy issues.

Breaking presentations down into 7-10 minute segments alternated with interactive periods to maintain engagement. Interact: Content can be compelling, but if you have people’s attention, why not focus on interaction and conversation and save the pushing of content for asynchronous. Jennifer and her team at WebJunction are great role models. Alan Levine wrote a deliciously provocative post on last month that I’ve been meaning to comment upon, Five Ways to Run a Deadly Online Seminar . When I read it, my head was bobbing in agreement and recommendations.

For this post, community is defined as a group of people with bounded membership who have some shared, congruent interest and interact with each other over time. 2)  How do you help others take on facilitation and leadership roles? (emphasis The 8 Competencies of Online Interaction ( Audio , slides ) and tons on my blog . It has become clear. I’m long-winded on the topic of new skills for knowledge workers and learning professionals, even if I don’t quite understand what a learning professional is.

8221;I believe our success was because we were passionate about this new form of human interaction. Conversation and content is at the core of the interactions, build on the foundation of relationship. The  deeply embedded nature of technologies in communities has given rise to the role and function of technology stewardship , the work of people who know enough about their community and enough about technology to help pick , configure and use technology to support This afternoon I’m spending a half hour on a Skype video conversation to share a bit of how I use social media.

In the last post in this series we talked about some of the roles that support successful learning communities and CoPs (Communities of Practice). But when we think of these roles in the context of organizations like the e-learning provider UFI Learndirect (for whom this series was originally written), whose strength is providing learning services at a massive scale, some natural tensions are going to emerge. We might say This is the seventh  in a series of blog posts I wrote for  Darren Sidnick . I

Re-Place-ing Space: The Roles of Place and Space in CollaborativeSystems Steve Harrison* and Paul Dourish+ *Xerox Palo Alto Research Center +Rank Xerox Research Centre, Cambridge Lab (EuroPARC) harrison@parc.xerox.com, dourish@europarc.xerox.com This is a draft of a paper which subsequently appeared in the Proceedings of CSCW96 (pub. While designers usespatial models to support interaction, we show how it is actually anotion of ``place which frames interactive behaviour. ACM). Abstract Many collaborative and communicative environments use notions of``space and spatial organisation to facilitate and structureinteraction.

Trace the development path of complex interactions with the ValueNetworks.com application ValueNetworks.com reveals the hidden story of human interactions that support any given business activity. Two basic value network patterns are visualized in the application: the Standard Role Based Value Network and the Collaborative Value Network of individuals involved in an activity. The Role based value network shows the actual value contributing roles that people play to get the work done. A

Im short on time for HTML tweaking!) Facilitating Online Interaction Originally from: [link] . The practice emerges from the classic skills of offline facilitation, but adds the elements of the technical practices using online interaction software, along with the complicating factors of distributed interaction where we cannot rely on accustomed offline communication elements of body language, tone and the affects of being in the same space at the same time. Home About Full Circle Resources Contact Us Full Circus Full Circle Associates connections for a changing world, online and offline… Sunday, April 29, 2007 Updating my basic article on online facilitation OK, what do you think should a) come out of this article, b) is missing and needs adding in, and c)needs to be better reframed for the current context.

If you are willing to use the word loosely, all of these social formations can be thought of as some form of community." Wally Bock , an online commentator stated "Communities are characterized by three things: common interests, frequent interaction, and identification." From a more academic perspective, Luciano Paccagnella of the University of Milan suggested, "Virtual communities has lately become a fashionable term which will be used here as a useful metaphor to indicate the articulated pattern of relationships, roles, norms, institutions, and languages developed on-line. Home About Full Circle Resources Contact Us Full Circus Full Circle Associates connections for a changing world, online and offline… Friday, April 01, 2005 How Some Folks Have Tried to Describe Community - Update 2005 In 1999 I wrote an article entitled How Some Folks Have Tried to Describe Community .