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TTIX 2010Where Am I Aiming?Me, We and the Networks
Nancy White
Full Circle Associates
http://www.fullcirc.com
@NancyWhite
Wiki: http://bit.ly/daOQVLhttp://www.flickr.com/photos/ironrodart/4344037016/
http://technologyforcommunities.com/
Tech + Social:Tech + Social:Technology has
fundamentally changed how we can be together
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ironrodart/4342064654/in/photostream/
People People FormsForms PolaritiesPolarities
RolesRoles
http://www.flickr.com/photos/zachstern/87431231/
#1 People Forms(me, we, network)
and why this matters
http://www.flickr.com/photos/h-k-d/4380427452/
Go Solo?
Pairs, triads and very small groups –
Fly with the flock?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mikebaird/3428218606/
Roam the network?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/sagarpatil/3684077399/
The “community” word often messes us up.
http://completeinnovator.com/2010/02/09/defining-the-%E2%80%9Csocial-team%E2%80%9D/
In the real world, we associate ourselves with
communities to find people of similar interests with whom to interact. These communities are important to define the overall population of socially connected people; but they’re useless as a way to actually get anything done. When we set out to actually achieve something, we abandon the broader “community” concept in favor of focused subgroups of active individuals that are more motivated and able to get things done.
Boris Pluskowski
These “Social Teams,” can be massive groups of hundreds, or even thousands of people in an online setting. They are teams on a scale never seen before, and on a playing field of incomprehensible proportions. Team members may never have met each other, but nevertheless choose to work with each other to achieve a mutually desirable goal or function.
Social Teams are not top-down, nor bottom-up; they can be purposely set-up, or self-formed by team members; they can exist in purely social settings or as corporate sponsored groups.
They are a collection of individuals who have a common understanding of the “game they’re playing” (ie the team’s purpose); know in which goal they’re trying to score in (ie have a shared understanding of what ‘a win’ looks like); and are collaborating together to achieve that aim.
They incorporate the structure of a traditional team, with the social contract of a community.
Boris Pluskowski
http://completeinnovator.com/2010/02/09/defining-the-%E2%80%9Csocial-team%E2%80%9D/
Communities are:Held together by some common interests of a large group of people. Although there may be pre-existing interpersonal relationship between members of a community, it is not required. So new members usually do not know most of the people in the community. Any one person may be part of many communities. They have overlapping and nested structure.
Social Networks are:Held together by pre-established interpersonal relationships between individuals. So you know everyone that is directly connected to you.Each person has one social network. But a person can have different social graphs depending on what relationship we want to focus on. They have a network structure.
http://lithosphere.lithium.com/t5/Building-Community-the-Platform/Community-vs-Social-Network/ba-p/5283
Michael Wu - Telligent
Many: Networks
We: Communities
Me: the IndividualPersonal identity,
interest & trajectory
Bounded membership; group identity,
shared interest, human centered
Boundaryless; fuzzy, intersecting
interests, object centered sociality
(Engeström)
Many: Networks
We: Communities
Me: the IndividualConsciousness, confidence level, risk tolerance, styles, emotion
Distinct power/trust dynamics, shared forward movement or strong blocking, stasis, attention to maintenance, language Flows around
blocks, less cohesion, distributed power/trust, change
Many: Networks
We: Communities
Me: the IndividualBlogs, email, portfolios, PLEs, RSS readers,personal media accounts…
Forums, wikis, group blogs, LMS, content mgmt systems, platforms…Facebook,
ELGG, Twitter, YouTube, Wikipedia,etc…
What are the implications for you?
• How you teach?
• Design for learning?
• Understand curricula & learning agendas?
• What your learners need and want?
Individual Community Network
Where are you currently aiming
your efforts?
Example: Triangulation
• External support person(s)
• Learning Connection to a domain-
related network or community
• Intentional external validation
http://www.flickr.com/photos/nexus_6/320344409/
Action
Connection 4employment
Scale
#2Polarities
TOGETHERNESS SEPARATENESS
http://www.flickr.com/photos/angerboy/201582453/
community timecommunity space
shifting engagement & rhythm...
http://www.flickr.com/photos/worldcafe/227358678/
Participation Reification
Vocabularies, tools, concepts, methods, stories, papers, pictures, reports…
Conversing, experimenting, practicing, learning, planning…
http://www.flickr.com/photos/worldcafe/227358678/
INTERACTING PUBLISHING
INDIVIDUAL GROUP
Designed for groups, experienced as individuals
Does not imply homogeneity
Multimembership
Attention
togetherness separateness
participation reification
individual group
rhythm
interaction
identity
F2F Community platform
#3Roles (yeah, yours!)
enable people to…
• discover & appropriate useful technology
• be in and use communities & networks (people)
• express their identity
• find and create content
• usefully participate
facilitators community leaderstechnology stewards network weaversIndependent thinkers
15% solution
Noticing and using the influence, discretion and power individuals have right now.
– Keith McCandless
Dan’s almost completed picture
http://www.flickr.com/photos/anotherphotograph/418050703/
Epilogue
Nancy White Full Circle Associateshttp://www.fullcirc.com
@NancyWhite
Talk Wiki:Wiki: http://bit.ly/daOQVL
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ironrodart/4343303449/in/photostream/
new fabric of connectivity
- - togetherness and separation
- - always on
- - virtual presence
- - peripherality
From Wenger, White and Smith, 2009
active technology landscape
- interacting and publishing
- social/informational computing
- semantic web
- digital footprint
From Wenger, White and Smith, 2009
multiple engagement modes
- generalized self-expression
- mass collaboration
- creative re-appropriation
- thin connections/weak ties
From Wenger, White and Smith, 2009
reconfigured geographies
- competing spaces
- multimembership
- dynamic boundaries
- global reach
From Wenger, White and Smith, 2009