Online Communities of Practice
From:
Steven Clift
Date:
Apr 22 11:52 UTC
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I noted mention of the Ideas online communities and I have posted a couple
times in those hosted by DCLG. The UK also has the Innovation Exchange project
for the voluntary sector.
I wonder if there might be a way for these projects to share a platform for
online communities of practice?
What I can't figure out is why all these systems are so unworkably web-centric?
The only binding online communities of practice that I've seen work (outside of
compulsory workspaces or time-limited exchanges) allow e-mail publishing and
receipt like the open source tool we use for the UKIE forum. It seems clear to
me that bridging the web-e-mail divide is the missing link - like GroupServer
here - people can choose their technology and be part of the same space.
Imagine what this or a similar tool could do for dozens of projects if people
in just a few funded initiatives pooled their scarce resources.
Steven Clift
E-Democracy.Org
P.S. E-Democracy.Org is about to invest in some new GroupServer features and a
more up-to-date look and feel for http://forums.e-democracy.org . Many of
those features will trickle down to this unfunded DoWire Groups site. If you
want to add some resources to this feature upgrade and help influence our
investment, let us know: <email obscured>