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. I thought I'd share my model What can be done to enhance the community? My 4L Model (Linking, Lurking, Learning, Leading) was spawned by comments made by John Seeley Brown in an interview with Marcia

Guest articles, minor voluntary roles (guest reviewer) or something. So social leaderboards, like all things that rely on technology to help decipher human relationships, is an imperfect model. Q. What are social network leaderboards? A.

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Companies often achieve great success with a value network business model, or internal collaborative value networks, only to have that advantage erode over time. In our experience, an organization that has not truly mastered Value Network Analysis (VNA) as a basic competency finds it increasingly difficult to hold the line against the more familiar and traditional bureaucratic models of organization. They either try How mature is your value network? Why is that?

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Kevin Carson: “The closest existing model for sustainable manufacturing is Emilia-Romagna. It follows a lean production model geared to demand, with production taking place only to fill orders, so there’s no significant inventory cost. Emilia-Romagna’s production model is a fulfillment of the potential of electrically powered machinery.” This region in Italy is often cited as an example of a well-working ‘cooperative capitalism’, as also argued by Kevin Carson. Below, a more substantive description by a group of visiting coop leaders

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. We argue that a focus on spatial models is misplaced.Drawing on understandings from architecture and urban design, as wellas from our own research findings, we highlight the criticaldistinction between ``space and ``place. ACM). Abstract Many collaborative and communicative environments use notions of``space and spatial organisation to facilitate and structureinteraction.

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The always excellent Trendwatching, which relies on a network of thousands of watchers, has a special briefing (September) on the triumph of transparency, and in particular, it focuses on the role of the ‘reviewing masses’ creating a powerful p2p ‘arena’ in which brands live and die following positive or negative reviews. Tags: P2P Business Model businesses have to understand and accept that consumers’ decision making processes, which ultimately come down to whether they will buy from you or from someone else, have truly shifted to a new, powerful peer-to-peer arena.

Let’s take a deeper look at what the historic role of banks has been. So will this be more reliable and cost effective than the current model? Think how different this is from today’s model. Tags: Open Models P2P Mone How to best transcend the current economic mess? Put Jeff Bezos, Pierre Omidyar, Elon Musk, Tim O’Reilly, Larry Page, Sergey Brin, Nathan Myhrvold, and Danny Hillis in a room somewhere and don’t let them out until they have framed a new, massively-distributed financial system, founded on sound, open, peer-to-peer principles, from the start.