Visualizing the Signatures of Social Roles in Online Discussion Groups Howard Tags: online_facilitation SNA online_community role Howard T. Welser, htw3@cornell.edu * Cornell Cornell University Eric Eric Gleave University

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

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, a tribe unto themselves, an enforcer of good behaviour, marketing device to find influencers.

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.

The Community Roundtable A peer network for community managers and social media practitioners. Home About Membership Who We Are Partners News & Mentions Our Mission Community Maturity Model Roundtable Schedule Facilitators Blog Community Community Is A Management Approach, Not Just a Role by Rachel Happe on December 17, 2009

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. We don't even need to tell the whole story because the people we know well have much of the background.

Yesterday I popped out for a meeting at the National Australia Bank. They have a new CEO, Cameron Clyne, and last week he announced a restructure that has substantially flattened the organisation. While the restructure has been the topic of lots of conversations and stories inside and outside the bank, Cameron has done two other things that has got employees talking.

Finding new roles for middle management Jun 09 Key success factor for Enterprise 2.0: Finding new roles for middle management Yes, I said it. Home About Blog Contact LLiu's Community