Digital Habitats Activity Orientation Spidergram Activity Cg

Digital Habitats Orientation Spidergram Activity From: Digital Habitats: stewarding technology for communities Etienne Wenger, Nancy White & John. D. Smith, 2009 http://www.technologyforcommunities.com http://www.flickr.com/photos/viamoi/3221971368/

… meetings … open-ended … projects conversation … content … access to publishing Community expertise activities oriented to … … individual … relationships participation … community cultivation … context Base material from: Digital Habitats: Stewarding technology for communities © 2009 Wenger, White, and Smith

What can we do with this? • Identify where your community/group/team is now to assess for design, facilitation and technology stewardship. – Refocus activities to increase engagement – Identify tools and processes to support activities • Identify where your group wants to go as a planning tool. • Look backwards and forwards as a reflection tool. Base material from: Digital Habitats: Stewarding technology for communities © 2009 Wenger, White, and Smith

Orientations What do they mean? • Meetings – in person or online • Community cultivation – Recruiting, gatherings with an agenda (i.e. orienting and supporting members, monthly topic calls) growing the community (i.e. who made • Projects – interrelated tasks with sure you’re the new person was invited specific outcomes or products (i.e. in and met others?) Identifying a new practice and refining • Individual participation – enabling it.) members to craft their own experience • Access to expertise – learning from of the community (i.e. access material experienced practitioners (i.e. access when and how you want it.) to subject matter experts) • Content – a focus on capturing and • Relationship – getting to know each publishing what the community learns other (i.e. the annual potluck dinner!) and knows (i.e. a newsletter, publishing an article, etc.) • Context – private, internally-focused or serving an organization, or the wider • Open ended conversation – world (i.e. what is kept within the conversations that continue to rise and community, what is shared with the fall over time without a specific goal wider world) (i.e. listserv or web forum, Twitter, etc.) Base material from: Digital Habitats: Stewarding technology for communities © 2009 Wenger, White, and Smith

Weekly bird walks, winter Example: The Birdwatchers … meetings bird feeding fillings, irregular of Central Park celebrations and events… Bump into another … open-ended bird-watcher? Have conversation … projects a conversation… Advocacy drives, adopt parts of the park, bird counts… The “Register” (print) is central to community… … content … access to publishing expertise activities oriented to … The participation of the “Big Guns,” and Anyone can bird watch, but “Regulars.” Mostly F2F sharing what you see/know is important…so the community accommodates both Note when people missing… Invite people in … individual participation Internal and External focus: Publishing, … relationships the “Register,” While everyone pays … community available to media… … context attention to the community, no centralized efforts… cultivation Base material from: Digital Habitats: Stewarding technology for communities, © 2009 Wenger, White, and Smith

Community Name: KM4Dev Once a year and only global knowledge sharing network … meetings about 10% do/can participate. Email list is core of … open-ended community activity conversation … projects When funding allows. Community knowledge wiki, E.G. supporting ShareFair content management system to bring together resources. … content … access to publishing expertise activities oriented to … Informally via the email With only one meeting a list by asking/answering year, large size and questions. diversity, KM4Dev focuses on enabling individual participation. Relationships mostly via meetings and core … individual Strongly group. participation external – all … relationships resources public/shared. While everyone pays Base material from: … community attention to the … context Digital Habitats: Stewarding technology for community, no cultivation communities © 2009 Wenger, White, and Smith centralized efforts…

Birdwatchers and KM4Dev-ers … meetings … open-ended conversation … projects … content … access to publishing expertise activities oriented to … … relationships … individual participation Base material from: … community Digital Habitats: Stewarding technology for cultivation … context communities © 2009 Wenger, White, and Smith

Orientations What tools? How? • Meetings – Web meeting tools for • Community cultivation – Outward online, shared calendars and wikis for facing web sites to attract members, planning, wikis, blogs, Twitter/IM to feel connected, Skype for images/audio/video to capture and voice. share during and after. • Individual participation – • Projects – Email lists/forums to RSS/aggregators, tagging, so people coordinate, shared calendars, project can craft what content they get, management trackers, blogs to journal/ customizable settings on web tools, report. using synch and asynch • Access to expertise – Online profiles, • Content – content management social networking sites, “yellow pages,” systems, blogs, wikis, podcasts, social discussion forums, blogs. bookmarking, tags, video/audio, • Relationship – Twitter/IM to share images, mindmapping. small frequent messages, member • Open ended conversation – email directories, Skype/VoIp for lists, forums, Twitter, chat. conversation. • Context – Public, open websites for outward facing. Password protected for inward facing groups. Base material from: Digital Habitats: Stewarding technology for communities © 2009 Wenger, White, and Smith

addressing inherent personalization community tensions “new” indicators Interacting Q&A telephony/ VoIP Individual e-mail systems teleconference e-mail lists UseNet videoconference polling instant discussion messaging subscription boards networking security chat tools subgroups asynchronous participation presence synchronous buddy list commenting statistics Group indicator RSS application blog wiki sharing RSS geomapping whiteboard aggregator site index scheduling shared calendar tagging filtering newsletter member bookmarking directory community podcast public page document management interest content scratch filter rating content version pad repository control Publishing search individual profile page 2007 Etienne Wenger, Nancy White and John Smith

Community Name: … meetings … open-ended conversation … projects Put a mark on the arrow to indicate … content … access to how important a particular publishing expertise orientation is to your community. activities The more important the orientation, oriented to … the further out on the arrow the dot should be placed. Then draw a line between the dots. See the next example. … individual participation … relationships Base material from: … community Digital Habitats: Stewarding technology for cultivation … context communities © 2009 Wenger, White, and Smith

Community Name: … meetings … open-ended conversation … projects … content … access to publishing expertise activities oriented to … … individual participation … relationships Base material from: … community Digital Habitats: Stewarding technology for cultivation … context communities © 2009 Wenger, White, and Smith

Orientations Questions? Observations? • Meetings – • Community cultivation – • Projects – • Individual participation – • Access to expertise – • Content – • Relationship – • Open ended conversation – • Context – Base material from: Digital Habitats: Stewarding technology for communities © 2009 Wenger, White, and Smith

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