The validity of the text depends on the full membership of the e-community having immediate input to the debate online. It’s taken a long time but since 1992 MirandaNet members have been learning how to communicate on line. Now an e-mature community our discussions are becoming more and more sophisticated. We now have examples of interchange

This is a structured community where those accepted for membership enter as MirandaNet Scholars. The community membership has been supported by web and e-mail-based technology, as well as public and private web forums and more recently the community has adopted Web2.0 few things really set this community apart from many educational counterparts and may be testimony to its longevity and the very low attrition in membership over its nearly 16 years in existence. The MirandaNet Fellowship is a community of UK and International educators, educational researchers, technology consultants focused on the domain of information and communication technologies (ICTs) in school education and in supporting action research best practices. MirandaNet Homepage

This blog and the collaborative activities planned to surround each case study are for me an unmissable opportunity to dynamically verify, moderate and challenge the findings by soliciting opinions and perspectives from a broader community membership. This research outlines my conceptual framework built out from the four definitional components to include core conditions and key attributes. The framework was developed through open and axial coding of rich text data collected from multiple sources (interviews, observations, documents, web site audits, artifacts and published and promotional materials).

These partnerships are actualized through the community dialogue, research projects, the Advisory Board membership and funding opportunities. This respect is in part due to the calibre of its membership, but also due to the community’s reputation for consistently producing high quality research from authentic contexts. MirandaNet is managed by a small secretariat consisting of the Director and founder, a web editor, an administration manager, and a Fellowship secretary. The Fellowship activity is overseen by an Advisory Council made up of 25-30 very senior academics, technologists,

Through their membership in MirandaNet members have the opportunity to explore new practices with cutting edge ICTs in a consultative organization, where professionals talk, listen and work together. People rarely leave this community. It has maintained a steady growth pattern from the opening five members to the current 300+ members. There is ebb

That means change for campaigning charities, trade associations, and membership bodies who may have worked in the past through a mix of newsletters, events and perhaps not very special services. Amy Sample Ward interviewed Clay on a topic close to her heart : what impact will social media have on nonprofits … those charities, memberships bodies etc. The negative thing is, Clay Shirky really pins down what any organisation relying on members or supporters for its life must do if it is to stay in business as people increasing network online. If they don’t offer more

I’ve written a fair bit about membership organisations and the impact that social media may have on them, and also helped start a project on the subject that’s now been taken forward by NCVO and RSA. But as someone said to me the other day: “I get more from my Twitter friends that I do from membership of xxx”. As I’ve written The Carnegie UK Trust is also investigating civil society associations. I’m I’m

The challenge is to get some connection and integration - because the vertical organisations will have membership fees and closed spaces, while the horizontal ones will be more open. Josien has been following the development of The Membership Project , started by Simon Berry and I, because this open-closed issue is exactly the challenge faced by the RSA and other membership organisations. I’ve come away from the Powering a New Future conference in Lisbon with three interlocking reflections on developing the concept and practice of social reporting - and a new conclusion about what it means to be a social reporter.

I’m delighted that NCVO and RSA have come up with a way to explore the future of membership organisations in a world where people may feel that paying subscriptions isn’t always worthwhile if they can easily get information, advice and connections online. It’s an issue that Simon Berry and I started to pursue with others through The Membership Project , with initial RSA and NCVO support. We generated a lot of discussion, but found it difficult to follow through without more funding. We were both interested in working on specific practical projects, and our

Tags: asides rsa Organisations All posts membershi About 30 RSA Fellows and friends enjoyed an afternoon last week playing - very constructively - with Lego and plasticine under the guidance of David Gauntlett , Professor of Media and Communications at the University of Westminster. I’ve written before about David’s metaphorical modelling, and this time we were discussing the future of RSA networks and other activities.