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This document discusses the role of technology stewards in communities. It defines technology stewards as people who understand a community's technology needs based on experience with the community, and can address those needs through selecting, configuring, and supporting technology use. The document outlines how technology stewards enable community activities like participation, publishing content, accessing expertise and more. It also discusses how technology stewards can address inherent community polarities around togetherness/separateness and interacting/publishing through various asynchronous and synchronous tools.
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- 1. Digital Habitats stewarding technologyfor communities Etienne Wenger Nancy White John D. Smith http://www.technologyforcommunities.com
- 2. What the %&*# isa technology steward? http://www.flickr.com/photos/dani3l3/364684710/
- 3. http://www.flickr.com/photos/dani3l3/364684710/ “Technology stewards are peoplewith 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…
- 4. Stewardship typically includes selecting and configuring technology,as well as supporting its use in the practice of the community.” Wenger, White and Smith, 2007
- 5. Technology stewards enable peopleto… • 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/sveinhal/2201546999
- 6. … meetings … relationships …community cultivation … access to expertise … projects … context … individual participation … content publishing … open-ended conversation Community activities oriented to … Base material from: Digital Habitats: Stewarding technology for communities © 2009 Wenger, White, and Smith
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- 8. addressing inherentaddressing inherent communitypolaritiescommunity polarities Group Individual Participation Reification asynchronous synchronous discussion boards teleconference chat instant messaging member directory wikiblog telephony/ VoIP individual profile page e-mail e-mail lists scratch pad RSS “new” indicators subscription podcast content repository presence indicator buddy list security Q&A systems RSS aggregator newsletter calendar videoconference application sharing whiteboard site index participation statistics search subgroups personalization community public page version control document management UseNet content rating scheduling polling commenting networking tools tagging bookmarking shared filtering geomapping interest filter Etienne Wenger In collaboration with Nancy White and John Smith micro- blogging
- 9. More… Etienne Wenger http://www.ewenger.com Nancy White http://www.fullcirc.com JohnDavid Smith http://www.learningalliances.net Book Site http://technologyforcommunities.com Tools Wiki: http://cpsquare.org/wiki/Technology_for_Communities_project
- 10. More… Etienne Wenger http://www.ewenger.com Nancy White http://www.fullcirc.com JohnDavid Smith http://www.learningalliances.net Book Site http://technologyforcommunities.com Tools Wiki: http://cpsquare.org/wiki/Technology_for_Communities_project
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- #3 Photo credit: http://www.flickr.com/photos/dani3l3/364684710/
- #4 Technology stewardship is not a solo gig, but by, of and for the community. It is about that balance between control and emergence, between "self-organizing" and "organizing on behalf of others." It balances the wisdom of the group, with the reality of getting things done.
- #5 Stewardship typically includes selecting and configuring technology, as well as supporting its use in the practice of the community.” It’s not just an “up front set up role” but something that is part of the life of the community. Etienne Wenger says 'Design and little and practice a lot.' That applies to any aspect of community leadership!
- #6 These roles and practices create the conditions that enable people to….
- #7 In our research of CoPs we noticed 9 general patterns of activities that characterized a community’s orientation. Most had a mix, but some were more prominent in every case. Image: Wenger, White and Smith, 2007
- #8 Sliders – as we think about how we pick, design and deploy technology, what sort of intentionality do we want with respect to these tensions? More importantly, how do we use them as ways to track our community’s health, make adjustments in both technology and practice.