This document discusses how individuals, groups, and networks interact using technology. It explores the continuum between an individual's personal identity and interests and their participation in larger communities and networks. It suggests that technology allows people to be together in new ways, and encourages considering how to best support individuals, groups, and networks through practices like facilitating participation, cultivating relationships, and enabling content sharing.
Slides for a remote presentation/session for http://conference2009.e-uni.ee/index.php?n=en
SCHOOL - FROM TEACHING INSTITUTION TO LEARNING SPACE which takes place April 02 - 03, 2009 at the Estonian University of Life Sciences conference centre (Kreutzwaldi 1A, Tartu), Estonia (but I'll be in Seattle and it will be 4:30 am my time!)
Slides from the talk I presented March 17th at the IOC Online Conference http://www.internationalonlineconference.org/2010/program - I made a few post-talk adjustments to include some of the interactions and screen shots of the work of Dan Porter who provided live, electronic graphic recording of the talk.
Slides from my presentation at the European Foundation for Quality in Elearning about how we create connections (thus the Velcro TM) for learning anytime, anywhere.
The annotated slides from a webinar I presented for http://www.pkids.org about social media and public health . Links to the recording archive are listed in the first slide notes.
Slides for a remote presentation/session for http://conference2009.e-uni.ee/index.php?n=en
SCHOOL - FROM TEACHING INSTITUTION TO LEARNING SPACE which takes place April 02 - 03, 2009 at the Estonian University of Life Sciences conference centre (Kreutzwaldi 1A, Tartu), Estonia (but I'll be in Seattle and it will be 4:30 am my time!)
Slides from the talk I presented March 17th at the IOC Online Conference http://www.internationalonlineconference.org/2010/program - I made a few post-talk adjustments to include some of the interactions and screen shots of the work of Dan Porter who provided live, electronic graphic recording of the talk.
Slides from my presentation at the European Foundation for Quality in Elearning about how we create connections (thus the Velcro TM) for learning anytime, anywhere.
The annotated slides from a webinar I presented for http://www.pkids.org about social media and public health . Links to the recording archive are listed in the first slide notes.
fOSSa2011: Five Things About Online Community and NetworksNancy Wright White
My talk at fOSSa2011 in Lyon France sharing some ideas about communities, networks and technology stewardship in the context of Open Source Software communities. Photos of the sketchnotes I did of other presentations can be found here: http://fossa.inria.fr/nancywhite-s-sketch-notes-scanned-part-one/
This is a large mixed deck with three main topic areas - what and why to use online interaction, some tool issues and facilitation. Very brief and not annotated, so may not be useful as a stand alone. Used at CIAT, Cali Colombia August 14 2007
Communities, Networks and Engagement: Finding a Place for ActionNancy Wright White
Slides from a web gathering on October 11, 2011 with the Leadership Learning Network http://leadershiplearning.org/ and http://leadershiplearning.org/page/nonprofit-leadership-webinar-series
Digital Habitats Activity Orientation Spidergram Activity CgNancy Wright White
These slides are a resource for an activity I use in workshops to explore what activities a group focuses on and how our tools and methods might support those activities.
Miscellaneous slides from my Introduction to Online Communities workshops in Australia, 2009. Note that these represent raw material rather than a sequence of ideas.
Digital Habitats : stewarding technology for communities - South Africa, May ...Nancy Wright White
The general set of slides I'm using in my Technology Stewardship workshops in S. Africa, May 2010 (CSIR/Pretoria, University of Cape Town and IST in Durban)
Slides for an online webinar I did for The Nature Conservancy November 8, 2012. The recording can be found here: https://nethope.webex.com/nethope/lsr.php?AT=pb&SP=MC&rID=65879162&rKey=982ec5cb40447d17
Beyond the Institution: Networked Professionals & Digital Engagement in Highe...Bonnie Stewart
Keynote for CAPAL at Congress 2016. Explores stepping beyond the boundaries of institutional education and roles, conceptualizing networked practice in light of Haraway's cyborg and new identities, engagement, and publics.
Digital Habitats Community Orientation Spidergram ActivityNancy Wright White
Some images you can use to do the Community Orientations spidergram activity from the book, "Digital Habitats: stewarding technology for communities" (forthcoming, 2009, Wenger, White and Smith).
Presentation for public sector marketing conference on online community engagement for non technical audience. About how times have changed, methods for engaging with your community, and some case studies from public sector and government.
Technology has changed what it means for people to "Be Together." We'll explore a tool to help look at how your learning community chooses to be together. The tool can be used to map activities to possible technologies, to assess the current status of a community or used to imaging the community's trajectory going forward.
fOSSa2011: Five Things About Online Community and NetworksNancy Wright White
My talk at fOSSa2011 in Lyon France sharing some ideas about communities, networks and technology stewardship in the context of Open Source Software communities. Photos of the sketchnotes I did of other presentations can be found here: http://fossa.inria.fr/nancywhite-s-sketch-notes-scanned-part-one/
This is a large mixed deck with three main topic areas - what and why to use online interaction, some tool issues and facilitation. Very brief and not annotated, so may not be useful as a stand alone. Used at CIAT, Cali Colombia August 14 2007
Communities, Networks and Engagement: Finding a Place for ActionNancy Wright White
Slides from a web gathering on October 11, 2011 with the Leadership Learning Network http://leadershiplearning.org/ and http://leadershiplearning.org/page/nonprofit-leadership-webinar-series
Digital Habitats Activity Orientation Spidergram Activity CgNancy Wright White
These slides are a resource for an activity I use in workshops to explore what activities a group focuses on and how our tools and methods might support those activities.
Miscellaneous slides from my Introduction to Online Communities workshops in Australia, 2009. Note that these represent raw material rather than a sequence of ideas.
Digital Habitats : stewarding technology for communities - South Africa, May ...Nancy Wright White
The general set of slides I'm using in my Technology Stewardship workshops in S. Africa, May 2010 (CSIR/Pretoria, University of Cape Town and IST in Durban)
Slides for an online webinar I did for The Nature Conservancy November 8, 2012. The recording can be found here: https://nethope.webex.com/nethope/lsr.php?AT=pb&SP=MC&rID=65879162&rKey=982ec5cb40447d17
Beyond the Institution: Networked Professionals & Digital Engagement in Highe...Bonnie Stewart
Keynote for CAPAL at Congress 2016. Explores stepping beyond the boundaries of institutional education and roles, conceptualizing networked practice in light of Haraway's cyborg and new identities, engagement, and publics.
Digital Habitats Community Orientation Spidergram ActivityNancy Wright White
Some images you can use to do the Community Orientations spidergram activity from the book, "Digital Habitats: stewarding technology for communities" (forthcoming, 2009, Wenger, White and Smith).
Presentation for public sector marketing conference on online community engagement for non technical audience. About how times have changed, methods for engaging with your community, and some case studies from public sector and government.
Technology has changed what it means for people to "Be Together." We'll explore a tool to help look at how your learning community chooses to be together. The tool can be used to map activities to possible technologies, to assess the current status of a community or used to imaging the community's trajectory going forward.
Miscellaneous slides from my Advanced Online Communities workshops in Australia, 2009. Note that these represent raw material rather than a sequence of ideas.
Facilitating Communities of Practice in the Network EraNancy Wright White
This is the set of slides used for the morning workshop on facilitating communities, along with two other sets of slides that might be useful later to participants, but which we did not conver/talk about. So be forewarned!
This isn't what I thought it was: community in the network ageNancy Wright White
A narrated version can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YB82kbj-NXw This was a short remote presentation that was part of a panel at the CACUSS 12.0: Engaging Digital Citizens conference <http: /> in Vancouver BC, Canada.
An introduction to Web 2.0 from the Community of Practice perspective. The idea of this presentation is in how social media can be used to encourage and facilitate a community of practice.
In this session, we talk about the mobile and social web, and how it shapes economy, individual behavior and well-being, political events, and society as a whole.
Bryce biggs talk to trainers network finalBryce Biggs
This presentation deals with social learning and social media and the possible use of social learning tools to enhance employee engagement. It was presented to public service
Technologies such as Diigo make it possible to amass a personal library of any size. Having access to the information you need amplifies your memory giving you an outboard brain. The social aspects of Diigo makes it possible to share content amongst like-minded collectors of information.
Facilitating Online Interaction 4 Learning Resource SlidesNancy Wright White
Annotated resource slides from a series of 16 workshops I ran in Australia about teaching and learning online. THIS IS NOT A PRESENTATION! You can find the annotations on a PDF file on my website, http://www.fullcirc.com/2011/12/22/reflecting-on-my-tafe-workshop-approach/
Imagining and Enabling the Collaborative CommonsMark McGuire
Presentation delivered at the Internet Research 16 (#IR16) Conference, Phoenix Arizona, Oct. 21-24 2015 (http://aoir.org/ir16/). I discuss open practices in education and design, including collaboration, cooperation, crowdsourcing and dissemination. An audio recording of this presentation can be found on Soundcloud (https://goo.gl/G7U1tB). A post that integrates the slides and audio can be found on my blog (http://goo.gl/ps3pHr).
A few background slides on Liberating Structures (http://www.liberatingstructures.com) shared at the Melbourne Knowledge Management Leadership Forum on November 10, 2015
Slides and harvest from a webinar I facilitated for the Mid Atlantic Facilitators Network on February 7, 2104. This is a cleaned up version of the slides with the chat notes processed into the slides as a "harvest" of people's inputs and participation
Slides for a virtual presentation I did on November 15th for the Benetec learning event. The audio for the last 10 minutes is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2eQJkYlmp_g (webinar software failure!)
Visual artifacts from our one day graphic facilitation workshop at KM Singapore, September 2012. Twelve great people, willing to let it all go and write on the walls!
conVerge 11: Connecting for Learning: Left and right, up and down (annotated)Nancy Wright White
My annotated slides from ConVerge11 in Melbourne, Australia, November 24th 2011. I'll put a pdf with annotations on my website, http://www.fullcirc.com
Before and After slides from our live #change11 MOOC session -- whiteboard and chat intensive. I'm working on getting the chat transcript and will link it when it is available, as well as the recording
Quick sketchnotes I made during others' presentations. Hopefully I'll replace the crummy photos w/ scans for a few of the pictures. Lyon, France, October 26-28
Twittering or Frittering: assessing the value of a social media tool in your ...Nancy Wright White
This is the first draft - sharing for feedback. Slides are for a one hour webinar on social media tool evaluation and adoption practices, using Twitter as a case study.
Community of Practice Roles and Facilitation - Girl Scouts L&D Conference Res...Nancy Wright White
Resource slides from my workshop on Community Roles and Facilitation, Girl Scouts of America Leadership and Development Conference, July 2010, Edith Macy Center, NY
Base slides for a workshop at the 17th Annual NW Dispute Resolution Conference” that will take place next Friday and Saturday, April 30 – May 1, 2010 at William H. Gates Hall, University of Washington School of Law. Note: these slides will probably make no sense on their own.
Delivering Micro-Credentials in Technical and Vocational Education and TrainingAG2 Design
Explore how micro-credentials are transforming Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) with this comprehensive slide deck. Discover what micro-credentials are, their importance in TVET, the advantages they offer, and the insights from industry experts. Additionally, learn about the top software applications available for creating and managing micro-credentials. This presentation also includes valuable resources and a discussion on the future of these specialised certifications.
For more detailed information on delivering micro-credentials in TVET, visit this https://tvettrainer.com/delivering-micro-credentials-in-tvet/
Safalta Digital marketing institute in Noida, provide complete applications that encompass a huge range of virtual advertising and marketing additives, which includes search engine optimization, virtual communication advertising, pay-per-click on marketing, content material advertising, internet analytics, and greater. These university courses are designed for students who possess a comprehensive understanding of virtual marketing strategies and attributes.Safalta Digital Marketing Institute in Noida is a first choice for young individuals or students who are looking to start their careers in the field of digital advertising. The institute gives specialized courses designed and certification.
for beginners, providing thorough training in areas such as SEO, digital communication marketing, and PPC training in Noida. After finishing the program, students receive the certifications recognised by top different universitie, setting a strong foundation for a successful career in digital marketing.
Exploiting Artificial Intelligence for Empowering Researchers and Faculty, In...Dr. Vinod Kumar Kanvaria
Exploiting Artificial Intelligence for Empowering Researchers and Faculty,
International FDP on Fundamentals of Research in Social Sciences
at Integral University, Lucknow, 06.06.2024
By Dr. Vinod Kumar Kanvaria
Macroeconomics- Movie Location
This will be used as part of your Personal Professional Portfolio once graded.
Objective:
Prepare a presentation or a paper using research, basic comparative analysis, data organization and application of economic information. You will make an informed assessment of an economic climate outside of the United States to accomplish an entertainment industry objective.
This presentation includes basic of PCOS their pathology and treatment and also Ayurveda correlation of PCOS and Ayurvedic line of treatment mentioned in classics.
Acetabularia Information For Class 9 .docxvaibhavrinwa19
Acetabularia acetabulum is a single-celled green alga that in its vegetative state is morphologically differentiated into a basal rhizoid and an axially elongated stalk, which bears whorls of branching hairs. The single diploid nucleus resides in the rhizoid.
How to Add Chatter in the odoo 17 ERP ModuleCeline George
In Odoo, the chatter is like a chat tool that helps you work together on records. You can leave notes and track things, making it easier to talk with your team and partners. Inside chatter, all communication history, activity, and changes will be displayed.
A review of the growth of the Israel Genealogy Research Association Database Collection for the last 12 months. Our collection is now passed the 3 million mark and still growing. See which archives have contributed the most. See the different types of records we have, and which years have had records added. You can also see what we have for the future.
A Strategic Approach: GenAI in EducationPeter Windle
Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies such as Generative AI, Image Generators and Large Language Models have had a dramatic impact on teaching, learning and assessment over the past 18 months. The most immediate threat AI posed was to Academic Integrity with Higher Education Institutes (HEIs) focusing their efforts on combating the use of GenAI in assessment. Guidelines were developed for staff and students, policies put in place too. Innovative educators have forged paths in the use of Generative AI for teaching, learning and assessments leading to pockets of transformation springing up across HEIs, often with little or no top-down guidance, support or direction.
This Gasta posits a strategic approach to integrating AI into HEIs to prepare staff, students and the curriculum for an evolving world and workplace. We will highlight the advantages of working with these technologies beyond the realm of teaching, learning and assessment by considering prompt engineering skills, industry impact, curriculum changes, and the need for staff upskilling. In contrast, not engaging strategically with Generative AI poses risks, including falling behind peers, missed opportunities and failing to ensure our graduates remain employable. The rapid evolution of AI technologies necessitates a proactive and strategic approach if we are to remain relevant.
This slide is special for master students (MIBS & MIFB) in UUM. Also useful for readers who are interested in the topic of contemporary Islamic banking.
Thinking of getting a dog? Be aware that breeds like Pit Bulls, Rottweilers, and German Shepherds can be loyal and dangerous. Proper training and socialization are crucial to preventing aggressive behaviors. Ensure safety by understanding their needs and always supervising interactions. Stay safe, and enjoy your furry friends!
Me, We and Everyone: navigating the spaces between individuals, groups and networks
1. EdMedia Me, We and Everyone: navigating the spaces between individuals, groups and networks Nancy White Full Circle Associates http://www.fullcirc.com
45. Epilogue Resources: onlinefacilitation.wikispaces.com me_we_network www.technologyforcommunities.com Contact Nancy White nancyw at fullcirc dot com http:www.fullcirc.com @NancyWhite http://www.flickr.com/photos/poagao/527259905/
Editor's Notes
The proliferation of internet based tools has expanded what it means to &quot;be together&quot; with others for learning, work and pleasure. How do we, as learners, educators and designers decide when to focus on the individual, the group or the wider network? What are the strengths and weaknesses of each? How does our choice inform our selection of tools and methods? And what about all the gray area &quot;in between&quot; each of these? We'll explore how we might navigate these spaces and play with a few heuristics you can take back with you.
Story 1 – Digital Habitats book. It started with Etienne writing a very useful report reviewing software developed for and/or used by communities of practice in 2001. As the technology market proliferated, he needed to do an update, but the complexity suggested he bring in some collaborators. John and I joined in, but in the end, the work reflected not just our work, but the knowledge that flowed to us from our networks. This was a small effort, thus our roles as individuals, as a group of authors and as actors in wider networks emerged organically. Story2 – ICT4Dev in Education. Sunday morning after the rooster that lives outside of the condo we were renting in Punalu'u woke me up at 4:30 am, I was reading twitter and saw a link to a blog post by http://blogs.worldbank.org/edutech/why-we-need-more-not-fewer-ict4d-pilot-projects-in-education Michael Trucano of the Wold Bank. He wrote about pilot projects and the complexity of moving “to scale” in ICT for Education in Development. Since I work mostly in international development, I thought, hm, this is a great story for our time together today. You see, I don't work directly in education – which most if not all of you do, and frankly, I want to share what I've learned authentically. So why not from my sector? Looking at Michael's blog post, I immediately saw the very point I wanted to raise here. Many of my clients are looking to scale their work, to sustain it What if we explored the issue from a me/we/network perspective instead of simply talking about scale? What role would me/we/network play in scaling educational initiatives in an international development context? So, you might ask, what is this me/we/network thing she is going on about?
It starts with “me” - each of us as individual actors and learners in the world. How do we learn? What motivates us? And when are we best served as independent actors?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/27126314@N03/2956992219/ The next stage along the continuum – and I stress that this is a continuum – is the “we” - bounded groups with an explicit shared purpose. As we move from me to we, the purpose may be emergent, fuzzy and we may just be creating the boundaries of the group. But for today, I'll focus mainly on formed, explicit groups.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/gustavog/9708628/ Finally, at the other end of the continuum – which I now think of as a circle, by the way, instead of a linear continuum, is the network. This is the network that we can now visualize and participate in more than any other time in human history because of technology. This is the “new” part of the game when we think about learning, because network participation is no longer constrained as it was by time and distance for many of us. (Not for all of us... we'll come back to that)
So let's do a little comparing and contrasting of this circular continuum. You can be clear when we talk about the individual, me. We can be clear when we have bounded communities with clear establishment of in/out membership. We can also have communities with fuzzy boundaries, which may even be networks. If there was a subliminal sign flashing across this slide, it would be saying “IDENTITY.” identity shows up differently across this continuumand identity can be linked to purpose and boundaries. http://www.zengestrom.com/blog/2005/04/why_some_social.html (Social-material networks)
You can be clear when we talk about the individual, me. We can be clear when we have bounded communities with clear establishment of in/out membership. We can also have communities with fuzzy boundaries, which may even be networks. These different boundaries influence the power dynamics that occur between people. It influences processes of leadership and other roles. It defines levels of trust and privacy – which are not always closely linked as we move to the network level. http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/jill_bolte_taylor_s_powerful_stroke_of_insight.html http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/bonnie_bassler_on_how_bacteria_communicate.html
Clay Shirky on CNN with Fareed Zakaria .. Iran and social media impacts, seems like an intelligent discussion Shirky .. &quot;Is there interconnectivity and can you send something&quot; .. it's the ecosystem's pull here … Shirky .. &quot;as much the redistribution of content as the distribution of cell phones&quot; jonhusband &quot;a dynamic 2-way flow of power & authority, based on knowledge, trust, credibility & results, enabled by interconnected people & technology
Finally, the tools we use can vary across the continuum. We'll talk a bit more about this later.
From a teaching/learning perspective? From a technology perspective? From a process and/or facilitation perspective?
Bias for practice and action beyond reflection and analysis Networked world Employment patterns (connecting students' learning with the network within which they will apply that learning) Economic situation
The idea of polarities that show up in group interactions. Tensions that we can learn to creatively leverage, rather than trying to resolve. Because resolution is usually impossible! Nor is it desirable. It is about noticing where a community is and what it needs at that moment along a polarity, and using tools and processes to move them to that desired point at that moment in time. 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 or network's health, make adjustments in both technology and practice. For example, the elements of time and space present a challenge for communities. Forming a community requires more than one transient conversation or having the same job title in completely different settings. The kind of learning that communities of practice strive for requires a sustained process of mutual engagement, and if mutual engagement is the key to learning, separation in time and space can make community difficult. How can a community sustain an experience of togetherness across the boundaries of time and space? How can members experience togetherness through shared activities if they cannot be together face-to-face? How can the togetherness of a few members (a small meeting, a conversation) become an experience the whole community shares? Members of a community of practice need to interact with each other as well as produce and share artifacts such as documents, tools, and links to resources. Sharing artifacts without interacting can inhibit the ability to negotiate the meaning of what is being shared. Interacting without producing artifacts can limit the extent and impact of learning. Indeed, the theory of communities of practice views learning together as involving the interplay of two fundamental processes of meaning making: Members engage directly in activities, interactions, conversations, reflections, and other forms of personal participation in the learning of the community; members produce physical and conceptual artifacts—words, tools, concepts, methods, stories, documents, and other forms of reification —that reflect their shared experience and around which they organize their participation. (Literally, reification means “making into an object.”) Meaningful learning in a community requires both processes to be present. Sometimes one may dominate the other. They may not always be complementary to each other. The challenge of this polarity is how successfully communities cycle between the two. Technology provides so many new ways to interact and publish while supporting the interplay of participation and reification that it can profoundly change the experience of learning together. Technology enables new kinds of interactions, activities, and access to other people. It also provides new ways to produce, share, and organize the results of being together – through documents, media files, and other artifacts. Most important, it affords new ways to combine participation and reification. For instance, by providing a web-based whiteboard for a conversation, we are supporting new forms of co-authorship where we casually mix words, images and sounds with each other . Technology also pushes the boundaries of both interacting and publishing for a community. It makes it easier for the work of a community to be opened up to the larger world. It can allow a community to decide whether to publish artifacts and invite comments publicly or to hold them within the private boundaries of the community. One role of technology is to help manage the complexities of community life and individual participation. Technology can make the community visible in new ways through directories, maps of member locations, participation statistics, and graphic representations of the health of the community. It can provide tools for individuals to filter information to fit their needs, to locate others, to find connections, to know when and where important activities are taking place, and to gather the news feeds from their various communities in one place. In fact, multi-membership is becoming so prevalent that tools to manage the group/individual polarity are becoming an increasingly central contribution of technology.
Technology creates “community time” that defies schedules and time zones, and “communal spaces” that do not depend on physical location. One obvious appeal of technology is its variety of solutions for dealing with time and space to achieve continuity and togetherness: to hold a meeting at a distance, to converse across time zones, to make a recording of a teleconference available, to include people who cannot be physically present, to send a request or a file, or to be up-to-date on an interesting project. In a community version of “time shifting” and even “space shifting,” togetherness happens in a variety of formats that enable participation “anytime, anywhere.” Practice issues: Community profiles as patterns of togetherness. How do we learn best. Respect the time of each member. Front or back channel, what problems to bring to the whole group. Networks demand less profiles of togetherness and instead need visibility of nodes for discovery. Social network mapping can be a tool to help nuture nodes. The practice of network weaving can build new social connections. Individual control of the connecting tools or software can give an individual some level of control at their solo level.
Individuals want control over their interaction and perhaps ownership over their publication. Members of a community of practice need to interact with each other as well as produce and share artifacts such as documents, tools, and links to resources. Sharing artifacts without interacting can inhibit the ability to negotiate the meaning of what is being shared. Interacting without producing artifacts can limit the extent and impact of learning. Indeed, the theory of communities of practice views learning together as involving the interplay of two fundamental processes of meaning making: Members engage directly in activities, interactions, conversations, reflections, and other forms of personal participation in the learning of the community; members produce physical and conceptual artifacts—words, tools, concepts, methods, stories, documents, and other forms of reification —that reflect their shared experience and around which they organize their participation. (Literally, reification means “making into an object.”) Meaningful learning in a community requires both processes to be present. Sometimes one may dominate the other. They may not always be complementary to each other. The challenge of this polarity is how successfully communities cycle between the two. Networks provide individuals and communities a place to share out what they produce, access the products of others and in that process, remix, mashup and create newly both individually and collectively, but often outside the boundaries of communities, on edges where innovation can flourish while it might be stifled in a community.
Technology provides so many new ways to interact and publish while supporting the interplay of participation and reification that it can profoundly change the experience of learning together. Technology enables new kinds of interactions, activities, and access to other people. It also provides new ways to produce, share, and organize the results of being together – through documents, media files, and other artifacts. Most important, it affords new ways to combine participation and reification. For instance, by providing a web-based whiteboard for a conversation, we are supporting new forms of co-authorship where we casually mix words, images and sounds with each other . Technology also pushes the boundaries of both interacting and publishing for a community. It makes it easier for the work of a community to be opened up to the larger world. It can allow a community to decide whether to publish artifacts and invite comments publicly or to hold them within the private boundaries of the community.
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
KM4Dev (http://www.km4dev.org) is a global network of practitioners interested in knowledge management and knowledge sharing in international development. Over 800 members are subscribed to the email list which had it’s origins in July 2000. It is both a well established but loosely bounded network that interacts primarily online, with once a year meetings that a small subset attend.
Consider how each of these orientations might have a “me, we, network” implication
One role of technology is to help manage the complexities of community life and individual participation. Technology can make the community visible in new ways through directories, maps of member locations, participation statistics, and graphic representations of the health of the community. It can provide tools for individuals to filter information to fit their needs, to locate others, to find connections, to know when and where important activities are taking place, and to gather the news feeds from their various communities in one place. In fact, multi-membership is becoming so prevalent that tools to manage the group/individual polarity are becoming an increasingly central contribution of technology.
Process/Facilitation (including evaluation)
Three roles that I’ve been looking at are community leaders, network weavers and technology stewards. Community leaders are a more familiar role, helping defined groups achieve specific goals over a period of time. “Helping” may mean creating conditions, supporting the emergence of relationships or individual and/or group identity, managing, etc. Network weavers are a new role (See the work of June Holley et al at http://www.networkweaving.com/blog/) – “people who facilitate new connections and increase the quality of those connections.” In between community leaders and network weavers are technology stewards – they show up both in groups/communities AND networks.