Tag: Oreillynet.com

Jan 20 2009

Building communities ‘aliveness’

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Collaboration, Future, People issues, Web 2.0
20 January 2009

I said last week (Building online communities) that Martin Brown (Isite) and I will be facilitating the foundation of a new online community for AEC people focused on integrated collaborative working. Adding to the OReillynet.com guidance, Martin has emailed me an interesting 2002 article from Harvard Business School about cultivating communities of practice, written by …

AEC, aliveness, building online communities, communities of practice, Etienne Wenger, Harvard Business School, integrated collaborative working, iSite, Martin Brown, Oreillynet.com, Richard McDermott, William Snyder

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Jan 14 2009

Building online communities

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Blogs, Collaboration, Functionality, People issues, Web 2.0
14 January 2009

My friend (and fellow Be2camp member) Jim McHale of Memoori has just blogged some Oreillynet.com guidance from 2002 about building online communities: Exist for a reason – a community has to promote a collective goal. Users draw other users – Your most active users will draw more users than you ever will. Referrals might bring …