George Roberts :: Weblog :: Community consolidation: Shared artefacts of our common experience. I was asked what I wanted out of today. I want groups of prople to share ideas that lead to projects being developed that are aware at the outset what other projects there are in the programme: projects that reference one another; projects that claim a territory and say we are doing this bit and it relates to what those folks are doing over there in these ways. The DeL tools programme started working like this. We want to se this programme taking it the next step farther. As the support project team we have been listening to the community. Thank you for the feedback, appreciative and otherwise.
You have said, “Communities don’t just happen. By constructing the Manchester event as community consolidation and an “unconference” we are aiming to nurture conversation. But I know people still are lost. When we put this bid forward we consciously adopted the users and innovation development model for sofware development and said we can see a similar process at work in community development. Communautés virtuelles : penser et agir en réseau - PUL. Cats in the classroom. BuzzMachine » Blog Archive » Who wants to own content? Distribution is not king. Content is not king. Conversation is the kingdom. The war is over and the army that wasn’t even fighting — the army of all of us, the ones who weren’t in charge, the ones without the arms — won.
The big guys who owned the big guns still don’t know it. In our media 2.0, web 2.0, post-media, post-scarcity, small-is-the-new-big, open-source, gift-economy world of the empowered and connected individual, the value is no longer in maintaining an exclusive hold on things. The value is in relationships. I’m writing this post — grappling with perhaps the most fundamental truth of my brief blogging career — because I still hear big-media colleagues insisting — or perhaps they’re praying — that content is king, that owning content is where the value is, that equity will still grow from exclusivity.
But no: Content is transient, its value perishable, its chance of success slight. There is no scarcity of good stuff. Distribution? So where is the value now? INSNA home page @insna.org. Barry Wellman's Publications. NetLab is an interdisciplinary scholarly network studying the intersection of social networks, communication networks, and computer networks. Centered at the University of Toronto, NetLab members have come from across Canada and the United States as well as from Chile, Germany, Hungary, Israel, Japan, Norway, Portugal, and the United Kingdom.
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Am not sure if you can get it, I think you can , try here. (need Realplayer). If you can I’d encourage you to watch it, it’s v. good! What I’m not entirely comfortable with though is her insistence on metaphors, on environments which people are comfortable with. I get the feeling after much attendance and observation of a whole heap of different environments, that this insistence on the notion of ‘environment’ as all encompassing / our goal is in fact our no. 1 problem.
People don’t exist in environments, they exist in themselves and their semilattice-esque relationships with other actors (communities, individuals, spaces, inanimate objects…) and we can use whatever media we want and whatever metaphors we choose but this will not facilitate the development of successful online networks.