Then someone talks to you about communities, and you realize that what they need is peer support and a holding hand. Some people will say you don’t build CoPs , they just emerge like mushrooms after the rain. How should the community further them? Project management and community work. Almost in-vitro CoPs. MORE >>

One could say that innovation is an emergent property of a healthy network of innovators who all build on each others ideas with complementary technologies. Phase 2 – Community Building: The aim here is coordinated action, or building a network or a community of people supporting the new idea. MORE >>

photo credit: Ev0luti0nary Since the beginning of time (relatively speaking, of course), online forums and communities have held contests and giveaways in an effort to grow their member base. Promoting Your CommunityIt gets them some attention. They notice an influx of new members. Then the contest ends. MORE >>

The Big Lottery Fund is the largest single funder of the community and voluntary sector (more than £1.6 It is therefore significant that BIG is putting a lot of emphasis through its People Powered Change programme on what’s known as Asset Based Community Development. You can see that 2010 interview here. Do take a look here. MORE >>

event (Around subjects like Facilitating Effectively Online Communities, Community Building Methodologies, Social Network Analysis, Task Centric Computing, Gamification, Informal / Social Learning, Social Fatigue, etc. Collaboration Communities Conference Events Enterprise2.0 this year. Ready? Yes, I know, me, too! MORE >>