Online Communities of Practice
From:
Dave Briggs
Date:
Apr 22 21:25 UTC
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I think it is fair to say that for a lot of people, email is work, and web
is play. In other words, if your boss is looking over your shoulder, would
you rather he/she saw you writing or reading an email or posting something
on a website? I'm not saying it's right, but the perception is there. Maybe
it will change over time.
The Improvement and Development Agency's Communities of Practice platform [
http://communities.idea.gov.uk] is nice, offering a number of different
tools for people to use to work together as they see fit: forums, blogs,
wikis etc. People who hadn't used this stuff before are now becoming real
converts, which is great.
Dave
On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 8:51 PM, Jill Sanders <<email obscured>>
wrote:
> If a website is interesting and active enough, it's best to share and
> exchange there in my opinion. Email coming through all the time drives
> you
> mad!
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Pete Thomson" <<email obscured>>
> To: <<email obscured>>
> Sent: Tuesday, April 22, 2008 3:45 PM
> Subject: Re: [UKIE-EDem] Online Communities of Practice
>
>
> Until recently I would have agreed with Steven about the importance of
> e-mail for online communities. My active participation in a web-only
> community never lasted for long, but e-mail kept me engaged. But now I've
> switched the way I read this community from e-mail to RSS, and find that
> works fine. Perhaps the world is moving on.
>
> I know, RSS is hardly leading edge, but it took me a while to work out how
> it's useful to me and make the switch. Probably there are plenty of
> established participants who still prefer e-mail, and they certainly
> shouldn't be disadvantaged. But for the future, and probably to some
> younger
> and/or more technical people already, I suspect e-mail as a primary means
> of
> participation will look quaint.
>
>
> Member profile for Pete Thomson:
> http://groups.dowire.org/contacts/petethomson
>
>
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