Tweets) for the Week: July 25, 2009 The Living technologies, especially those offering shared communication and information. BLOG Links (and Top Tweets) Living Field: My always-provocative always-provocative friend Mushin describes the concept of the living field as

After posting my 4 Meta Skills for Learning Professionals in response to Tony’s July “Big Question,” he commented: In a world of information abundance, knowledge workers and learning professionals need to be able to scan, both through the discerning use of aggregating technologies and their own ability to quickly read, and estimate the quality and value of the information passing by them in this “river.” Again, this is a It is hard to let some Tony Karrer disappointment persist. Nancy - I was super excited when I saw that you had posted on the topic.

Online Community Building Strategy: Nancy White On Networks, Groups and Technology Choices Interested in better understanding what is the difference between an online group and a network of people? Trying to build your own community of loyal readers and fans? Photo credit: Robin Good In this second part (first part - Online Community Building Strategy: Good Advice From Nancy White - here) of my video interview with facilitation expert Nancy White , the focus of our conversation lands around key differences and philosophies behind groups and networks and their

In July there was a meeting for Dgroup administrators and moderators in the Netherlands. Last week we had several discussions on how to get lively discussions going on online fora. It made me think again about the success of Dgroups "the starting point for fostering groups and communities in international development " and how hard it is to pinpoint the critical success factors and hence to replicate this success.

Governance, according to The Burton Group, is the combination of people, technology, processes and policies to define a service, resolve ambiguity. My flight was cancelled from Christchurch, so I was late getting into Wellington for the inaugural SharePoint Conference in New Zealand. The conference is being held at The Duxton Hotel, and there's 200-300 people here.

What Simon Hearn of the Overseas Development Institute (ODI) does for his community of Outcome Mapping practitioners is facilitation, management, technology stewardship and plain old leadership. Simon joined RAPID in July 2007 as the Research Officer for knowledge and learning. Tags: communities of practice community facilitation harvesting international development knowledge I was going to say “online community management” in the title, because I know that is a hot search term, but I just could not do it. A

Slide 6: This activity comes out of a chapter in our book that looks at the activity orientations of communities of practice and how this might drive both the technology stewardship and the overall community nurturing and leadership activities. Over 800 members are subscribed to the email list which had it’s origins in July 2000. Thanks to Jeff Lebow, there is a recording, synched to my slides, of Friday’s presentation as part of Webheads in Action Online unConvergence . Sweet!

Snippets from all of the Robin Good July 09 interviews he did w/ me. ...Tags: Tags: online_community nancywhit

Several different groups are working on technologies that complement Winer’s vision. In an insightful blog post, Anil Dash recently described these technologies as creating what he calls the “ Pushbutton Web “. Pushbutton technologies—including PubSubHubbub (seriously, that’s its real name), an open protocol developed by programmers at Google—let sites notify you whenever they’ve been updated. Twitter — or, rather, the idea of a pervasive, public short messaging network — could be too important to be left under one entity’s control. The

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