De seneste posts fra danske RSS feeds og weblogs på Overskrift.dk om tag'et communities http://www.overskrift.dk Tue, 15 May 2012 15:01:05 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://www.overskrift.dk/images/overskrift.gif http://www.overskrift.dk Overskrift.dk http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://danegeld.dk/2012/05/15/in-class-engaging-a-community/ @RichMillington, author of the FeverBee blog and a community management expert, offered a free one week masterclass on community engagement from 7-10 May. The class was run in Lore (formerly Coursekit), a free online course platform/learning management system (LMS) geared at social learning, with daily webinars held in GoTo Webinar. Nearly 350 people signed up. This is my reflective diary on participating in the course as a time shifted anti-social participant. Monday reading (24 page PDF file) available on Lore webinar on converting newcomers to regulars – recording here As the webinars are being held at 6pm CPH time (not ideal) I didn’t catch up with this one until Tuesday morning, when I largely listened while getting on with other things. The sole components were slides and a tiny question box, no talking head. The slides are not being made available, which is OK as I suspect most of them are in the PDF file. First impressions are that the target group is those already running largish communities. I still need a definition of community in this context – versus a network say, but also versus a community of practice. It’s probably all on the FeverBee blog somewhere…found it! And, like buses, another one popped up handily this week to help clarify the issues. Much stress was put on the use of data (buzzword of the year?) to back up community development. Which is great if you’ve got a community producing data, but can seem like making a lot out of a little sometimes. The softer stuff around interventions etc seemed pretty self evident. So in the end a bit of a strange mix. But I did pick up on the notion of a community designed for lurkers  – ie where members aim to fulfill their information rather than social needs. Use of the Twitter hashtag #cmgr was recommended rather than the question facility in GoToWebinar,  but as this is a general tag after several hours it’s not easy to pinpoint relevant tweets. Tuesday  open clinic, “an hour talking about online communities and answering any questions you might have” The session was uploaded to Lore as an mp4 file, but an mp3 would have been fine as there were no visuals, not even a talking head – is that the norm with GoToWebinar? I sat down to listen/watch, but with one speaker and no visuals it’s not very engaging. Really really needed a transcript – there may well be some pearls in the mixed bag of questions, but as it is this knowledge is pretty much lost. Three ways of participating available – via #cmgr, via the question box on GoToWebinar, and outside class via chat on Lore. The first two would have benefited from curation, while the third is apparently buggy. Wednesday reading (35 page PDF file) available on Lore webinar on moderation - recording here Sat in on around 30 minutes of the moderation webinar. Usual issues – felt faintly ridiculous waiting for the start, then slow to get going, difficult to twin screen on a netbook, teeny tiny window for questions (one way – couldn’t see what other people were contributing), couldn’t see who was logged in, chat over on Twitter. Some polls were used this time to engage – good idea, especially with closed questions. My brain closed down when requested to define engagement in 30 seconds, but apparently 25 people gave it a go, either via Twitter or in the questions box (couldn’t see those ones). One hour has to be the maximum in terms of concentration IMO. This session was stuffed with information and over-ran by 40 minutes, which must have been completely exhausting for all concerned! I left Tweetchat running throughout the session and favourited the content heavy tweets. On Thursday morning I hurled these into Storify for a closer look – see Everything in moderation. Thursday webinar by guest speaker Elisabeth Joyce (recording not available due to technical problems) two articles (PDF files) by Elisabeth available on Lore I was not able to attend the webinar, so no notes today! The Lore platform  The people behind Lore chose the name as it means “knowledge shared between people”, and according to an article in Poynter its innovation is the stream, making it like “Facebook for academia”. My reactions: the stream _is_ useful and it’s easy to post something, with a range of options including notes, questions or blogs individual items, for example in the calendar and stream, open in a separate window on the right, easy to miss don’t really get the browse options – probably need more content to be meaningful the various parts of the page are weird – some scroll and some don’t, and it’s not obvious which the resources section grew throughout the week and includes files, links and books in a long list – needs another look to be usable It always takes a wee while to work out how a new platform fits together and it’s the first time I’ve used an LMS, but Lore certainly has potential. Conclusions What was striking throughout the week was how much information management is needed to ensure a class hangs together. The same issues come up as with event amplification, for example the need for curation to ensure the useful stuff is most visible, how to cater for people who aren’t able to attend an event live, or don’t have equal access to tools. The class was offered as a taster for the full Pillar Summit and also as an opportunity to try out Lore (the course is currently offered using BuddyPress). As a free class there was a lot of content on offer, and there were a couple of indications that it was too dense – maybe not suited to the webinar format? Webinars and social learning are In, but you still need to put in the  individual effort, for example to do justice to the reading files. Perhaps a flipped classroom model would be more successful in terms of generating interaction between the participants. Webinars can be presented as a lecture, a seminar or in a flipped classroom scenario, with the last of these equating most to the aims of social learning. It is perhaps instructive to compare the GoToWebinar experience with a recording of a recent webinar held in Collaborate on digital literacy in the EU. A range of formats are offered so the time shifted participant can shape their own experience – on this occasion I fired up Collaborate to recreate the live experience as closely as possible, and the selection of material on offer, including synchronised chat, made for a more complete experience: No doubt Rich is taking his own medicine – Feverbee posts during the week included How to optimise an online community platform, lots of tips there, and Identifying and articulating the benefit of the community, highlighting the dangers of content driven strategies. I’d like to thank him and his team for sharing their knowledge and also giving me the opportunity to try out the Lore platform. annindk Danegeld Tue, 15 May 2012 08:54:13 +0100 http://www.videndanmark.dk/wordpress/top-10-success-factors-for-communities-of-practice/ What factors make a Community of Practice successful? What can you do to help develop a lively, open, asking-and-sharing CoP that adds real business value? These nine success factors come from a study by the Warwick Business School and the UK Knowledge and Innovation Network (of which I am an associate), which was based on a major survey of...Læs resten af dette indlæg » Nick Milton VidenDanmark weblog Mon, 14 May 2012 18:49:46 +0100 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/mindjumpers/~3/tVFjMY8PIVI/ TweetDuring my time at SXSW, Austin 2012, I had a chance to meet up with some interesting people with innovative ideas and new products. One of them was the team from BigMarker.com. BigMarker.com is a social network for communities. By offering unlimited web conferencing and key project management tools, it hopes to empower communities to make a difference. With this product BigMarker.com are looking to connect communities and according to them, communities are the best places to network and find people with common interest. By connecting communities in any field like non-profits or education, it is possible to reach the desired objectives like business networking, meeting people with common interests or even streamlining the growth efforts. A BigMarker.com Community equips anyone with the tools they need to make a difference. Unlimited web conferencing and streamlined collaboration tools empower communities to not only connect, but be more productive and effective. Here are some features: While talking to the team, I was very curious to know what they thought was the prime differentiator of their product in these competitive times. ?What differentiates us from most social networks is both our built in web conferencing, with multi-point video and the ability to create a Private Community to use as an exclusive and collaborative space. To name a few industries at the top of my mind – like telecommunications industry, our prime differentiator is our Public Communities. Most web and video conferencing tools are built for meeting with people you already know. Nonprofits, businesses, and individuals can leverage Public Communities and Conferences to grow their networks and meet new clientele.,? said Zhu-Song Mei, Founder and CEO. The ambitious team has already set foot in social networking, telecommunications, file sharing and storage, user communications, and project management. By combining all these tools that are typically in separate industries, they hope to be a one-stop collaboration tool, and save organizations the hassle of juggling multiple accounts, and in most cases, four or more monthly subscriptions. In future they plan to grow communities by equipping them with the tools and resources to make a difference. They are also looking forward to innovative partnerships that will allow them to offer the most useful and comprehensive tools. Similar Posts: How To Set Up a Presence on LinkedIn How Enterprise Social Networking Drive Business Value [Report] Combining UX With Your Social Media Profiles Jonas Klit Nielsen Mindjumpers Tue, 03 Apr 2012 08:40:39 +0100 http://danegeld.dk/2012/03/15/february-events-round-up-happened-without-me/ February was a non-event tracking wise as I’ve been busy with other things. Time to draw a line under it! The use of social media in higher education was highlighted by #dr12vitae, or Digital Researcher 2012, on 20 February - topnotch coverage from four sessions looking at the stages of the academic knowledge cycle now filed away for a rainy day. Some Twitter archiving and social network analysis links: The Archivist #dr12vitae archive currently shows nearly 2000 tweets; I stuck it into Socialbro at one point which showed 267 people had used the tag TAGS spreadsheet and conversation cloud from @mhawksey coupla visualisations from @psychemedia with the usual caveat – how many folk might have seen tag | folk commonly followed by users of tag Alan Cann, clearly not scared of giving a new service a whirl, set up a #dr12vitae Pinterest board. I didn’t think he was serious at first, but it is another option for curating event resources. I still prefer Scoopit, not least because it offers tags and seems a little less Desperate Housewives. Also in highered, #cetis12 on 22-23 February was generally a bit tecchie for me but I would have killed to be at the social network analysis session (links to slides and stuff) – sometimes you need to be there to actually get to grips with something. May try to dig tweets for the SNA session out of the #cetis12 TAGS spreadsheet, now how might I do that?? Unlike most JISC events this one didn’t give much of a nod to a potential online audience and its web presence was a bit disjointed – there’s also a JISC CETIS event page, with the programme finally located on a wiki. 22 February saw the first #tartantm, meetups/TweetMeets around Scotland for people using social media in the public sector, tweeting live and engaging with real members of the public. As an exiled Scot I have to keep an eye on these things…@Cal444 has written an account of how it came about - “organised for free, with very little overall effort, just a little synergy happening from six ingredients” - and ran a Tweetreach report showing #tartantm tweets reaching a potential 97,066 people via 530 tweets, nice work. TweetGrid was used to track tweets – haven’t seen this before but looks similar to Tweetchat if more messy. @prettysimple’s report on the Embra tweetup gives some nuggets from the conversations and admits that talking and tweeting at the same time is hard! The UK Content Strategy Association’s February meeting on the 15th took the form of a debate on whether content strategy is just a fashionable buzzword (or two). Apparently it isn’t. Phew. Some chats, webinars: Two digests from January popped up from #Cmgrchat – on community manager burnout (kinda the source of my problems) and automation ie scheduling issues; with 800 odd tweets per chat unless you take part, a different experience entirely, a decent summary is essential so woot. The Guardian’s Higher Education Network hosted a chat on 24 February on Using new tools to communicate research, but I can’t spot any form of summary/round-up. There’s a list of chats plus the #HElivechat hashtag, but it’s evolving, shall we say. JISC Digital Media’s online surgery on ebooks on 22 Feb looks like a useful primer with lots of links to follow up. There’s a nice overview from NewT Bham as well. There’s a distinct lack of Danish events here, must do better. One reason is the ‘closed shop’ nature of the Danish workplace, governed by a whole swathe of foreninger, or associations, some linked to trade unions and/or unemployment funds. For those not following an established Danish career path it can be hard to break in – or even locate yourself in space. A few meetup/unconference type events do take place, but they seem more fringe (in more ways than one…) than is the case in the UK. annindk Danegeld Thu, 15 Mar 2012 16:39:38 +0100 http://astridmaria.dk/2012/03/cowbird-gode-billeder-og-historier/ Der er rig mulighed for at fordybe sig i gode historier på Cowbird.com Hvis du endnu ikke har prøvet Cowbird, så skynd dig at komme i gang. Cowbird en simpel, men god tjeneste til at fortælle historier ud fra et billede. Man uploader et foto, og har derefter muligheden for at skrive tekst til billede, uploade audio til det og geotagge det. Det er super let at bruge og siden er let at overskue. Jeg har endnu ikke fået lavet så mange historier dér, men det var min mening at bruge det til nogle historier fra min tur til Indien. Man kan tagge sine historier, og på grund af person-, dato- og geotagging er det let at opdage historier, der foregår samme sted, samme dato eller med samme personer. Cowbird samler også en masse historier i sagaer om First Loves og Occupy-bevægelsen. Kræver gode historier Cowbirds måde at fortælle historier på kræver, at man har et godt billede, der kan stå i centrum for en historie og ofte er det bedst, når billedet fortæller en historie i sig selv. Så det er altså ikke et spørgsmål om at dele så mange billeder som muligt, men om at dele gode historier. Cowbird profilerer sig som et community af historiefortællere. Og community-delen af sitet fungerer også fint. Det er meget simpelt, men i mine øjne behøver man heller ikke så meget andet, end at kunne følge hinanden og like de gode historier. Nogle historier er ret letbenede, men der er andre, der udforsker mediet, så som The*rapist af Lesley-Ann Brown. Der er også andre, der formår at slå en stærk tone an på ganske få anslag som Lovers on the Train af Ana Kova. Men den bedste mulighed for at finde guldkorn er selvfølgelig at fordybe sig på sitet. Ingen indlejring Min eneste anke ved Cowbird er, at det ikke rækker ud. Nok kan man dele historier til Facebook eller Twitter. Men modsat Storify kan jeg ikke embedde historierne eksempelvis her på min blog. Konsekvenserne af en indlejring ville med stor sandsynlighed også være, at formatet kiksede og designet røg. Det ville med andre ord kræve et andet koncept. For Cowbird handler om simplicitet og rent design. Find mig og mine to historier på Cowbird Astrid Maria Bigoni Astrid Maria Bigoni Thu, 01 Mar 2012 13:06:13 +0100 http://www.denfri.dk/2012/03/cowbird-gode-billeder-og-historier/ Hvis du endnu ikke har prøvet Cowbird, så skynd dig at komme i gang. Cowbird en simpel, men god tjeneste til at fortælle historier ud fra et billede. Man uploader et foto, og har derefter muligheden for at skrive tekst til billede, uploade audio til det og geotagge det. Det er super let at bruge og siden er let at overskue. Jeg har endnu ikke fået lavet så mange historier dér, men det var min mening at bruge det til nogle historier fra min tur til Indien. Man kan tagge sine historier, og på grund af person-, dato- og geotagging er det let at opdage historier, der foregår samme sted, samme dato eller med samme personer. Cowbird samler også en masse historier i sagaer om First Loves og Occupy-bevægelsen. Kræver gode historier Cowbirds måde at fortælle historier på kræver, at man har et godt billede, der kan stå i centrum for en historie og ofte er det bedst, når billedet fortæller en historie i sig selv. Så det er altså ikke et spørgsmål om at dele så mange billeder som muligt, men om at dele gode historier. Cowbird profilerer sig som et community af historiefortællere. Og community-delen af sitet fungerer også fint. Det er meget simpelt, men i mine øjne behøver man heller ikke så meget andet, end at kunne følge hinanden og like de gode historier. Nogle historier er ret letbenede, men der er andre, der udforsker mediet, så som The*rapist af Lesley-Ann Brown. Der er også andre, der formår at slå en stærk tone an på ganske få anslag som Lovers on the Train af Ana Kova. Men den bedste mulighed for at finde guldkorn er selvfølgelig at fordybe sig på sitet. Ingen indlejring Min eneste anke ved Cowbird er, at det ikke rækker ud. Nok kan man dele historier til Facebook eller Twitter. Men modsat Storify kan jeg ikke embedde historierne eksempelvis her på min blog. Konsekvenserne af en indlejring ville med stor sandsynlighed også være, at formatet kiksede og designet røg. Det ville med andre ord kræve et andet koncept. For Cowbird handler om simplicitet og rent design. Find mig og mine to historier på Cowbird Astrid Maria Bigoni DENFRI Thu, 01 Mar 2012 13:06:13 +0100 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/HenrietteWebercom/~3/U-nGIs3aDOc/ Source: paulzii.tumblr.com via Henriette on Pinterest This is my first pin which was 35 weeks ago   So everybody is head over heels about pinterest. So am I. Even though I normally say “screw the tools” I think pinterest is super fun. It’s not boring and community-setup like like facebook and ning and twitter and what have you. pinterest is different. But do you know what I really LOVE about it ? That in order to use it for marketing purposes you need to become creative. “Creative companies only” that wants to go the extra mile to exist on pinterest. Because you HAVE to figure out what you stand for. You have to figure out why your  interesting and turning it into pinteresting. Hey I know – that’s normally my job – and pinterest may end taking me out of business – but we’re all here for a greater purpose and if it means i need to sit in a grocery store from 9 – 5 each day in order for companies to see the light and figure out who they really are…? so be it =) I think it’s one of the new ways of using the web- I love that it makes me more inspired. My life seems interest with pinterest and to tell you the truth I kind of got tired of browsing all your status updates in my spare time. Now I can browse things you think is cool instead. I love the idea that if I look at my “the style of a social web rockn’roll chick” or my “things for my small cottage up north” I can get a pretty good style and interior design book. Because this is stuff I love enough to share with my network. It was the same when I worked with Fashiolista there I suddenly could see that there was a style when I put things together. Why you think it’s noisy and can’t see how it can be used for marketing purposes. Yes it is noisy. It used to be filled with bibelverse and now my part of pinterest is filled with infograms about digital – which I repin to my Toothless Tiger board. If you can’t see how it can be used for marketing purposes, you need to look again and harder. Every pin has a link back to something – So why not your site ? So are you telling me to work on becoming pinteresting? YES. If coming up with a cool quote or turning your content into a collage and take a picture of it and uploading it to your site and pinning it to pinterest is work – then you need to do it. Get your lazy butt of your couch, stop talking about yourself and get creative. Sure it takes a little bit more effort to turn your content into images or quotes. But I did it twice now (these two are personally Henriette Weber crafted for research purposes – no worries I will turn them glossier and my involvement manifesto and my preconditions of viral effects is also made for pinterest. It means that pinterest these days is my number 8 referral site in google analytics to henrietteweber.com – and Im not even getting started. in my world it works and it super fun – and it’s viral like.. well hell. It’s perfect for stores. I pursuaded kaiku.dk to get in there and start pinning (disclaimer: client) and they even put the pinterest icon on their website… (they have massively cool stuff). Just don’t be full of yourself and if you want to turn on the marketing a bit, there’s always the commentfield for proactivity=) Henriette Henriette Weber - the social web rockn'roll chick Fri, 17 Feb 2012 07:38:02 +0100 http://henrietteweber.com/2012/02/17/yes-you-can-market-on-pinterest-if-your-pinteresting/ Source: paulzii.tumblr.com via Henriette on Pinterest This is my first pin which was 35 weeks ago   So everybody is head over heels about pinterest. So am I. Even though I normally say “screw the tools” I think pinterest is super fun. It’s not boring and community-setup like like facebook and ning and twitter and what have you. pinterest is different. But do you know what I really LOVE about it ? That in order to use it for marketing purposes you need to become creative. “Creative companies only” that wants to go the extra mile to exist on pinterest. Because you HAVE to figure out what you stand for. You have to figure out why your  interesting and turning it into pinteresting. Hey I know – that’s normally my job – and pinterest may end taking me out of business – but we’re all here for a greater purpose and if it means i need to sit in a grocery store from 9 – 5 each day in order for companies to see the light and figure out who they really are…? so be it =) I think it’s one of the new ways of using the web- I love that it makes me more inspired. My life seems interest with pinterest and to tell you the truth I kind of got tired of browsing all your status updates in my spare time. Now I can browse things you think is cool instead. I love the idea that if I look at my “the style of a social web rockn’roll chick” or my “things for my small cottage up north” I can get a pretty good style and interior design book. Because this is stuff I love enough to share with my network. It was the same when I worked with Fashiolista there I suddenly could see that there was a style when I put things together. Why you think it’s noisy and can’t see how it can be used for marketing purposes. Yes it is noisy. It used to be filled with bibelverse and now my part of pinterest is filled with infograms about digital – which I repin to my Toothless Tiger board. If you can’t see how it can be used for marketing purposes, you need to look again and harder. Every pin has a link back to something – So why not your site ? So are you telling me to work on becoming pinteresting? YES. If coming up with a cool quote or turning your content into a collage and take a picture of it and uploading it to your site and pinning it to pinterest is work – then you need to do it. Get your lazy butt of your couch, stop talking about yourself and get creative. Sure it takes a little bit more effort to turn your content into images or quotes. But I did it twice now (these two are personally Henriette Weber crafted for research purposes – no worries I will turn them glossier and my involvement manifesto and my preconditions of viral effects is also made for pinterest. It means that pinterest these days is my number 8 referral site in google analytics to henrietteweber.com – and Im not even getting started. in my world it works and it super fun – and it’s viral like.. well hell. It’s perfect for stores. I pursuaded kaiku.dk to get in there and start pinning (disclaimer: client) and they even put the pinterest icon on their website… (they have massively cool stuff). Just don’t be full of yourself and if you want to turn on the marketing a bit, there’s always the commentfield for proactivity=) Henriette Henriette Weber - the social web rockn'roll chick Fri, 17 Feb 2012 07:38:02 +0100