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| ===== Community Types: Me, We, and It ===== | ===== Community Types: Me, We, and It ===== | ||
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| + | //"I, we, and it. That's simple enough."// | ||
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| When enabling online communities, | When enabling online communities, | ||
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| - | Though these are drawn as discrete boxes, they really represent a continuous if clumpy space.\\ \\ For example: many //It// communities use Group/ | + | Though these are drawn as discrete boxes, they really represent a continuous if clumpy space. For example: many //It// communities use Group/ |
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| ^ Community\\ Size | One | Some | Many | | ^ Community\\ Size | One | Some | Many | | ||
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| - | In the table above, each community context type in /Me/We/It// contains three main attributes: | + | In the table above, each community context type in //Me/We/It// contains three main attributes: |
| A Focus (or organizing principal), moderation model, and a motivational purpose – below each are a list of tools and technologies that optimally support this type, and at the bottom is a typical number of members in that community. | A Focus (or organizing principal), moderation model, and a motivational purpose – below each are a list of tools and technologies that optimally support this type, and at the bottom is a typical number of members in that community. | ||
| The //Me// communities are organized around the individual, alone. They have complete control of what they do and what they share with others, including the internet as a whole. The most common purpose of me-based communities is to express one’s self or to capture some personal value from a greater extended community. Examples of this one the net are Profiles, Avatars, Blogs, Photo sharing sites, and even Ebay. | The //Me// communities are organized around the individual, alone. They have complete control of what they do and what they share with others, including the internet as a whole. The most common purpose of me-based communities is to express one’s self or to capture some personal value from a greater extended community. Examples of this one the net are Profiles, Avatars, Blogs, Photo sharing sites, and even Ebay. | ||
| - | //We// based communities are generally small collections of people, where the members of the group are more important than the topic of their interaction. Each member knows and/or cares about all of the others and the loss of a specific member is seen as a significant loss to the group as a whole. These are truly social groups and, as such, the members moderate themselves and each other through purely non-technical social methods, such as scolding, ignoring, shunning, and personal confrontation. In fact, technical solutions (such as voting and banning) to problems in “we” | + | //We// based communities are generally small collections of people, where the members of the group are more important than the topic of their interaction. Each member knows and/or cares about all of the others and the loss of a specific member is seen as a significant loss to the group as a whole. These are truly social groups and, as such, the members moderate themselves and each other through purely non-technical social methods, such as scolding, ignoring, shunning, and personal confrontation. In fact, technical solutions (such as voting and banning) to problems in // |
| - | The //We// group exists as a means to support people who want to belong to a group. That sense of belonging is what holds the group together. Examples include Family mailing lists, strong social networks (like Facebook), and local/ | + | <box yellow round right 25%> |
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| + | The //We// group exists as a means to support people who want to belong to a group. That sense of belonging is what holds the group together. Examples include Family mailing lists, strong social networks (like Facebook), and local/ | ||
| //It// communities are larger and are centered on a topic or issue, and who is a member of the group is less critical than the value of the content created by the group about the topic. More than any other community type, this group needs tools to moderate, discover and organize its content. Moderation moves to center stage as a critical management task, and as the group grows larger, the authoritative moderator(s) model often fails leading to dead groups. For many It community technologies, | //It// communities are larger and are centered on a topic or issue, and who is a member of the group is less critical than the value of the content created by the group about the topic. More than any other community type, this group needs tools to moderate, discover and organize its content. Moderation moves to center stage as a critical management task, and as the group grows larger, the authoritative moderator(s) model often fails leading to dead groups. For many It community technologies, | ||
| - | <strike>Many of the context problems I will discuss today start as errors in identifying which of these types of communities is appropriate.</ | + | <del>Many of the context problems I will discuss today start as errors in identifying which of these types of communities is appropriate.</ |
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