NOTICE: There is an updated version of all these FAQs on our new website: See new FAQs Are Facebook or Linked-In tools for communities? Networking websites, such as Facebook or LinkedIn offer quick, simple, and cheap ways for communities to open spaces for interaction. While the sites may not offer all the features that communities […]
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NOTICE: There is an updated version of all these FAQs on our new website: See new FAQs Should a community be “tweeting”? Micro-blogging, using a tool such as Twitter or Yammer, has become a very popular way for some communities to stay connected. It is used in a variety of different ways, including to: Stay
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NOTICE: There is an updated version of all these FAQs on our new website: See new FAQs Why are analytics important for a community? Analytics, such as Google Analytics, enable community leaders to collect, analyze, and act on data they receive about how people are connecting to their website. Data is easily collected and represented
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NOTICE: There is an updated version of all these FAQs on our new website: See new FAQs How do communities use tagging? Communities can use a set of tags as communal keywords, thus creating shared set of pointers to resources relevant to members. A “tag cloud” (the set of tags that a community uses sized
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Click here for an updated version of the slide on this page. Communities of practice usually involve multiple levels of participation. Because involvement can produce learning in multiple ways and the domain has different levels of relevance to different people, the boundaries of a community of practice are more flexible than those of organizational units
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NOTICE: There is an updated version of all these FAQs on our new website: See new FAQs What use are feeds for a community? Feeds, such as RSS feeds, are used in two ways. They enable communities to: Distribute content beyond the people who visit their website. Members and non-members can subscribe to feeds through
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NOTICE: There is an updated version of all these FAQs on our new website: See new FAQs How do communities use blogs? Communities use blogs, such as Blogger or WordPress, in two ways: individual blogs and collective blogs. Individual blogs give people a personal voice as contributors to a community. Some communities offer individual blogs
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NOTICE: There is an updated version of all these FAQs on our new website: See new FAQs How do communities of practice use wikis? Wikis, such as MediaWiki used by Wikipedia and Wikispaces which is popular for Educators, are used by communities of practice to create and publish collective, co-authored documents, including web pages. They
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NOTICE: There is an updated version of all these FAQs on our new website: See new FAQs Do we need to change our organizational culture first? Organizational culture can work against communities of practice, if it is individualistic, competitive, and focused on the short term. Changing organizational culture is very difficult. Change initiatives to address
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NOTICE: There is an updated version of all these FAQs on our new website: See new FAQs If knowledge is power, why would anyone want to share it? Knowledge is indeed a source of power; but hoarding knowledge is not necessarily the best way to benefit from its power, especially in the context of communities
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