The challenge is to get some connection and integration - because the vertical organisations will have membership fees and closed spaces, while the horizontal ones will be more open. Josien has been following the development of The Membership Project , started by Simon Berry and I, because this open-closed issue is exactly the challenge faced by the RSA and other membership organisations. I’ve come away from the Powering a New Future conference in Lisbon with three interlocking reflections on developing the concept and practice of social reporting - and a new conclusion about what it means to be a social reporter.

Ed Mitchell: Platform neutral Network and community design and facilitation; event design and facilitation. Blog About Ed Projects Services Membership engagement story December 6, 2007 – 5:05 pm Lyndsay Rees-Jones (CILIP Membership Support Advisor) and I gave another presentation about the CILIP membership communities at Online Information yesterday. Since talking about this project publicly, we have found that there are very few ‘community’ teams in HQs which are pragmatically integrated into the membership

The Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce ( RSA ) has survived my cull of memberships because, although the conventional benefits are thin, it is currently such an interesting place. I’m paid up for another year, and even pondered taking life membership to avoid such vacilitation in future. However, But the RSA is missing However, the organisation has failed to persuade my friend Amy Sample Ward that she should come up with £145 for the honour of being a Fellow. It’s not the possibly sexist label that’s put her off - as

Weinreich, personal communication, July 11, 2007). Then, in July 2005, News Corporation purchased MySpace for $580 million (BBC, 2005), attracting massive media attention. As of this writing, only membership in regional networks requires no permission.) Based on Orkut data, Spertus, Sahami, and Büyükkökten (2005) identified JCMC Home Submit Issues Author Index Editors About JCMC boyd, d. m., &

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The Online Communities: Metrics and Reporting research study was initiated in late July of 2009, and ran until the second week of August 2009. 32% (74) User Activity / Engagement 21% (49) Membership Count [New Registrations, Active] 18% (42) Number of Posts / Comments 5% (12) Member Satisfaction / Loyalty 4% (10) Number of Questions Answered 4% (10) Sales Revenue - Up Sell, Cross Sell, Renewals 4% (8) Leeds / Referrals Generated 3% (6) Number of Downloads 3% (6) Number of Influencers / Evangelists 2% (5) Visitor Retention 2% (5) Number of Conversions 1% (2) Donations Received

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. For this post, the definition of a network is a constellation of individuals associated via fuzzy, unbounded membership and overlapping (not fully congruent)  interests.  By the way, if you are interested in the topic of networks of communities, you might 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

Centralised community: This is a diagram representing a traditional online community with a clear boundary defined by membership and related login. This model serves only a membership who are happy to log in to a central site, keep all their conversations therein, and, most importantly, dedicate 100% of their attention to the community. It has similar boundaries (membership) to the centralised community, but they Ed Mitchell: Platform neutral Network and community design and facilitation; event design and facilitation. Blog About Ed Projects Services Three types of community November 16, 2007 – 10:20 am This is a brief overview of three community models.

about voluntary membership and participation... about the self-selecting nature of the membership itself... about the need for leaders to self-select from within the membership and identify their own topics.  is the behaviors of the people who comprise the membership. Sweettt.com (with triple T's) Living on the bountiful net The Manager Who Thought He Could Create a Community 6 days ago By Matt Simpson In my practice, I see many people who are tackling challenges within the collaborative process.  Frequently people want to work with communities,

We are running a membership event on 9 October which we thought you may be interested in, and perhaps participating in. Scott - I’ll drop you an e-mail. 8 Samuel July 8, 2008 at 11:24 am Very interesting! And what is the incentive to keep your profile up-to-date? 9 richarddennison July 9, 2008 at 8:10 am You cannot rate other people’s skills … we are introducing Inside out A view from deep inside the intestines of a global company Blog About My articles New BT social media case study (12/09/08) « My slides from International Employee Communications Summit It’s all about people being people … » Enterprise social networking has landed in BT Published June 17, 2008 Facebook , Web 2.0 , social networking Tags: enterprise social networking , Facebook , social networking