fOSSa2011: Five Things About Online Community and Networks

Twittering: frittering or connecting? Or…thoughts on designing for, connecting to, and holding space for groups, communities and networks. fOSSa 2011 Nancy White Full Circle Associates http://www.fullcirc.com

Uh Oh!

Invite!

Two people One pen One piece of paper (No talking!) Thanks to Johnnie Moore & Alain Rostain http://www.jonniemoore.com/blog/archives/000380.php

What did you notice? Take a moment to debrief with your partner.

Five more Ideas!

Tech + Social: Technology has fundamentally changed how we can be together

“ And the Japanese themselves are so wonderful. I come back to my shack to check on it each day, now to send this e-mail since the electricity is on, and I find food and water left in my entranceway. I have no idea from whom, but it is there. Old men in green hats go from door to door checking to see if everyone is OK. People talk to complete strangers asking if they need help. I see no signs of fear. Resignation, yes, but fear or panic, no.”

Occupy…NAME YOUR SPACE http://www.occupycafe.org /

new fabric of connectivity
togetherness & separation
always on, virtual presence
peripherality
active technology landscape
interacting & publishing
Social & informational
digital footprints
multiple engagement modes
mass collaboration
creative re-appropriation
thin connections/weak ties
reconfigured geographies
competing spaces
multi-membership
dynamic boundaries

#2. New Roles http://www.flickr.com/photos/id-iom/2879056012/

enable people to…
discover & appropriate useful technology
be in and use communities & networks (people)
express their identity
find and create content
usefully participate

http://www.flickr.com/photos/spine/272900992/

facilitators community leaders technology stewards social artists Independent thinkers moderators

What the %&*# is a technology steward? http://www.flickr.com/photos/maykesplana/270819284/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/meaduva/3163258523/ “ Technology stewards are people with enough experience of the workings of a community to understand its technology needs, and enough experience with technology to take leadership in addressing those needs. Stewardship typically includes selecting and configuring technology, as well as supporting its use in the practice of the community.”

Social Artists a la Etienne Wenger

3. The horizontal begs some vertical

trans·verse /transˈvərs/ Adjective: Situated or extending across something: "a transverse beam". http://www.flickr.com/photos/clotnatura/6177350876/

Three Perspectives: Strategic goals Resources M & E Results Role & task clarity Feedback Purpose Ease Value

4. Complexity and Safe-Fail Experiments (Snowden) Some rights reserved by Josef Dunne http://www.flickr.com/photos/josefdunne/4319306255/sizes/z/in/photostream/

http://www.wedowhatwesee.org/stop-waffling-start-moving/

5. Reciprocity

Tech changes what it means to be together
New roles in a broad & deep world
Horizontal AND vertical
Safe-Fail experimentation
Reciprocity
One more time…

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