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. You don’t have to read all this post; you can go straight to slideshare from here: See the presentation on slideshare We had already focused on the social

members share a common purpose ( not earning three million members) for example, your shared purpose is sustainable outdoor mountain bike paths or the factory floor and talk about this purpose. The Membership: Co-operatives are voluntary organisations, open to all persons BLOG Co-operatives: The Feeling Feeling is Mutual The virtuous

Circle together for any purpose). Enterprise Groups had memberships hovering around 7 or 50, with the smaller size (7) working their membership, while encouraging the whole community to become a Trust BLOG The Optimal Size of Groups Groups C hristopher Allen

Centralised community: This is a diagram representing a traditional online community with a clear boundary defined by membership and related login. There may be some reporting about the internal discussions on the perimeter for non-members to see, but this will be carefully edited, and is generally for PR/marketing purposes only. This model serves only a membership who are happy to log in to a central site, keep 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.

Design and Structure • People need to be a click or two away from what they need to do • If it’s too complex people won’t have the time to learn, they need to orient themselves with ease • Create a guide on how, and when to use each tool (better still incorporate it into the design) • Blank slates don’t help (people are used to structured tools that are designed for a specific purpose, and are not used to the idea of flexing unstructured tools to fit their needs) - I like ThoughtFarmers idea of usage scenarios • Create a stickiness factor so people return (frequent

Communities have the following characteristics: - They are continuous, not temporal - this is not to say that people dont drop in and out but there is a core membership that interacts together over a long period of time. - Patti Anklams "Net Work" talks about networks having intentionality and purpose. At which point, relationships are defined along with collaborative The Social Organization About Rachel Social Media Metrics Social Media Examples Enterprise 2.0 Consultants Enterprise Social Software

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,

One of the problems with traditional communities is that purpose of the community was very explicit. Membership in these communities can be suggested to non-members based on common interests, attributes, etc. The emergent nature of these communities also makes them feel more fluid and their purposes can change with the membership and changing attitudes of their members. Home | Biography | Contact | Speaking | Patents | Publications | Portfolio | My Blog Jul 21 Why Most Online Communities Fail Monday: July 21, 2008 6:56 AM Recently, the Wall Street Journal published an article on why online communities fail.

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The purpose of this introduction is to provide a conceptual, historical, and scholarly context for the articles in this collection. As of this writing, only membership in regional networks requires no permission.) Based on Orkut data, Spertus, Sahami, and Büyükkökten (2005) identified a topology of users through their membership in certain communities; they suggest that sites can use this to recommend additional communities of interest JCMC Home Submit Issues Author Index Editors About JCMC boyd, d.