Comments on: Three types of community

By: Types of online communities |

Types of online communities | — Sun, 30 Jan 2011 20:18:54 +0000

[...] This typology by Ed Mitchell on the other hand is extremely useful: a typology along the axis of formal structure. Ed Mitchell sees three types of communities: [...]

By: New year, new blog, new journey | Paul Henderson

New year, new blog, new journey | Paul Henderson — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 20:34:20 +0000

[...] you may (I am just kidding on this description – I hate one-stop-shops. And portals. The future is distributed, get used to it. Read Ed Mitchell’s excellent blog if you want to know [...]

By: Socialreporter | Connecting the excluded

Socialreporter | Connecting the excluded — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 14:33:38 +0000

[...] I’m naturally pleased by Clay’s analysis. I think it also ties in with the analysis of different types of online community identified by Ed Mitchell and the challenges of facilitating [...]

By: Ed Mitchell: Platform neutral » Blog Archive » Networking - past, present and future

Thu, 02 Oct 2008 17:32:29 +0000

[...] wrapped up in nice talk about engagement, but if not handled sensitively, rather whiffs of centralised community dictatorship. I’ve been there and know that when you obssess over this as the facilitator, [...]

By: Ed Mitchell: Platform neutral » Blog Archive » Strategic planning for group spaces

Fri, 15 Feb 2008 14:00:22 +0000

[...] The third option is beautiful. I admire those spotters who see the crests and curls of rising emotio-energetic waves breaking in cyberspace, grab their virtual surfboards and lead a movement from the fore into the unknown with gall and daring. This is crazy brand and campaigning and sudden stuff. They opt for a distributed model. [...]

By: Ed

Ed — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 18:51:12 +0000

Joitske: weclome

The temptation for a facilitator may be that way, but thinking NLP world views (as only one example), perhaps it’s all about awareness stuff, one’s perception of the universe, desire for control, passion for fringe innovations etc. And we have personality types to think about herein as well…

The more I’m thinking about all this stuff, the more I think most things are actually [#2] – campaigning is certainly [#3] – but .. hmm… i really should be down the pub it’s my birthday!

By: Joitske

Joitske — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 22:57:35 +0000

Hi, that’s an interesting distinction. I wonder if not all communities are type 3, but in some cases the facilitators think they are type 1 or 2? (so 1 and 2 are blinded visions of the facilitator?)

By: Ed Mitchell: Platform neutral » Blog Archive » Three types of facilitation

Sat, 19 Jan 2008 20:02:06 +0000

[...] post compliments my earlier post about the three types of community where I described three ways of looking at communities from the point of view of centricity and the [...]

By: Ed Mitchell: Platform neutral » Blog Archive » Customer engagement survey 2008

Mon, 03 Dec 2007 12:45:35 +0000

[...] puts the thinking around how to approach the three types of community (centralised, de-centralised, and distributed) into an interesting organisational context. And [...]

By: DavePress » links for 2007-11-18

DavePress » links for 2007-11-18 — Sun, 18 Nov 2007 00:42:11 +0000

[...] Three types of community Ed Mitchell on 3 types of community: centralised, decentralised and distributed. Interesting reading. (tags: communities edmitchell) [...]