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 from What can be done to enhance the community? I thought I'd share my model with the LCB community for feedback and discussion.

It can help a community search, filter and reward participants. Guest articles, minor voluntary roles (guest reviewer) or something. Q. What are social network leaderboards? A. They are a list of members and content, a way of finding cool stuff, a reward system for members,

may cover these posts at a later date, as my post today is more on adoption or participation at the group level. Following on from my post on workshopping and piloting a new community are the adoption factors a facilitator can massage to get participation off the ground. Peer to Peer influence • Sometimes people will only adopt if their close colleagues are participating • Prior to this they have not dedicated the time to investigate, but if This is not a post about social computing deploying/piloting/adoption in general. All these are applicable on many levels

social media, RSS, blogging, and podcasting. Blog Consulting Starting Point Yahoo Pipes and RSS Hacks Speaking OpenID? About « Fast Wonder Podcast: Reputation in Communities Legion of Tech » Warning : join() [ function.join ]: Invalid arguments passed in /mnt/local/home/fastwonderblog/fastwonderblog.com/wp-content/themes/k2/app/includes/info.php on line 697 "> Community Roles: Manager, Moderator, and Administrator Published by Dawn on December

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. Next, we will introduce the related notion of place, andcompare their roles in existing systems and consequences for futuredesigns. ACM). Abstract Many collaborative and communicative environments use notions of``space and spatial organisation to facilitate and structureinteraction.

Last month, the Online Community Research Network conducted our second study that examines how community and social media professionals engage in the social media ecosystem, Participating in the Social Media Ecosystem . Our goal with the Participating in the Social Media Ecosystem report was to gain more information on how companies participate, how frequently they engage in activities in the social media ecosystem, who manages the participation, and what value participants’ companies have gained from their activities. We received approximately 125 responses.

Last month, the Online Community Research Network conducted our second study that examines how community and social media professionals engage in the social media ecosystem, Participating in the Social Media Ecosystem . Our goal with the Participating in the Social Media Ecosystem report was to gain more information on how companies participate, how frequently they engage in activities in the social media ecosystem, who manages the participation, and what value participants' companies have gained from their activities. We In April 2009, we conducted the Social Media Ecosystem study to gain a better understanding of how organizations were managing their hosted and external online community touch points. Our

For a long time I was flummoxed at times during an anecdote circle when the participants could only give you broad illustrations of what they did at work rather than specific anecdotes. Everyday we tell those closest to us (our family, friends, colleagues) about what happened to us: today, yesterday, last week. Occasionally we'll reminisce about the old days but for those we know well what's worth recounting, what's remarkable, is happening on a daily basis.

39;the evidence strongly suggests that this is not a policy for less affluent areas only, as it could contribute towards the management of expectations in more affluent areas, add to allocative efficiencies across an authority, by better matching services to citizens’ wishes, and play a role in discussions about distributive efficiencies.' Tags: Governance and participatio Community contracts (sometimes called neighbourhood or community agreements or charters) are voluntary agreements between residents, local service providers and elected representatives that aim to improve conditions in a defined area.