Here are some high level thoughts outlining things you might do when planning for a new community or ‘common purpose networking tool’ (thanks Ben), or group space, or network enabler, and how you might go about doing it in such a way as to get the most benefit for all actors in the system.
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Entries Tagged as 'model'
Strategic planning for group spaces
February 15th, 2008 · 1 Comment · Facilitation, Strategy
Tags:community·engagement·Facilitation·model·moderation·process·Strategy·theory
What are facilitation and moderation
February 15th, 2008 · No Comments · Facilitation
A quick addendum about facilitation and moderation on online spaces before a longer post about strategy.
Pete Ferne and Dan Dixon grouping a mindmap at The Media Sandbox community launch event. Are they facilitating, moderating, re-purposing, or nothing at all?
Facilitation:
Is largely around helping people connect, share, and learn together; disrupting the walls that keep them [...]
Three types of online facilitation
January 19th, 2008 · 14 Comments · Facilitation, Strategy, Technology
This 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 login. It is meant to give you an idea about the challenges and opportunities offered to facilitators and community managers in an increasingly distributed online [...]
Tags:community·Facilitation·model·onlinefacilitation·online_facilitation·theory
Three types of community
November 16th, 2007 · 9 Comments · Strategy, Technology
This is a brief overview of three community models. They are theoretical models, but they are ones I have used with a variety of people on a variety of real projects. They are very useful tools to abstract and discuss the myriad issues that communities throw up for their hosts to handle, starting with the [...]
Tags:centralised de-centralised·community·distributed·model·theory
