efios     Efios home Weblog     The efios blog: "It's all about people and networks"       04 March 2003 Yesterday I got the Online Community Report newsletter (- I must give the credits to the right people - ) and saw the link to Dan Farber's article in ZD Net. It's no breaking news neither shocking for those already indulged in this kind of writings, but the second comment to the article caught my attention just now. Someone posted about the real-time conferencing / IM future that "The last thing I need is more interrupts during the day". Something he did not say of course is that with most IM tools, you can set yourself to be busy, out of office or away. Just allow yourself to disconnect, similar to the way most people use voicemails on their (mobile) phones. I kind of like the idea that in a virtual collaboration space you have that possibility, but yet I have to see this in the team or community space. As soon as the email, IM and the asynchronous tools integrate, this will be a neat option. Finally we'll learn why no-one responded ("they were all on 'busy'..") This happened at 12:04:56 PM  Ideas and comments to this [] or trackback [] Just thinking aloud here- what would be the value of a community or team or group-edited weblog? My first thought for the team weblog is that it can be an added value in the team tools set to deliver - the weblog can be a diary-ish tool in the set - and for a community ? I have seen community pages and sites with news- thoughts and stories dumps which may be even regarded as blogs, but they were mainly edited and maintained by the coordinator slash technical contact. It would be perhaps interesting, to see whether or not the community can benefit on a collaborative basis from the weblog concept (rather than the individual, see my previous post). I guess that my thinking aloud reverts my comment in CP Square on the fact that weblogs as far the community itself (not the individual) is concerned, are too far off. Do co-edited weblogs exist, anyway? This happened at 10:30:08 AM  Ideas and comments to this [] or trackback [] Reading George Por's update in his collective intelligence weblog, I had to remember a discussion that I had today with someone in Barcelona (and a similar one I had last week). In the dynamic organization, the role of communities is becoming more and more clear to an increasing number of people. The networked organization needs a glue to address issues that are relevant within the scope (domain) of the community... I started talking about the knowledge worker in the dynamic organization (or should I say, society) who will have his role in the communities that he belongs to. The community can help the knowledge worker not only to learn but also to gain respect and become a recognized expert. On the personal level, applications such as weblogs will assist in the latter as well, but without the need to address a community issue, the rules of engagement in the network and without the limitations of the actual domain. Then people can just pick up from the weblog what they like. Maybe I should replace my community profiles with a blog. This happened at 12:47:52 AM  Ideas and comments to this [] or trackback [] © Copyright 2005 Erik van Bekkum. March 2003 Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat             1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31           Feb   Apr Blog categories: (All) Innovation Social Networks Blogging Knowledge Garden: Communities Social Networks Blogroll: Daily reads Blog of CI Patti Anklam Andy Boyd Georg Siemens Lilia Efimova Debby at Pepperdine Renee Hopkins Dave Pollard on BI Ton Zijlstra (Engish) Ton Zijlstra (Dutch) Social software channel Stephanie Allen's COP^2 Matt's blog Joe Corthrel Ross Mayfield Sam Ruby Staurt Henshall Terry Frazier Chris McRae David Gurteen 25 most recent: Double - loop learning and social learning Systems... Social networks and country-to-country transfer: d... Efios launched Rail Safe The Google Legacy Yahoo! patents (parts of) social networks: Method ... Social Capital in Virtual Learning Communities The Theory of Inventive Problem Solving The reciprocity of innovative capabilities Knowledge Garden and Research whiteboard to RSS Social Network Analysis at BHP Intervision and communities of practice Weak ties in communities of practice Corporate SNA in CIO magazine Introduction to UCINET and social network methods The navigational aspects of social networks Blended Learning in KM Supporting Pioneering Leaders as Communities of Pr... WHO uses communities of practice to achieving univ... Communities for Project Offices Power struggle in radical innovation communities Xwiki, the MT of Wikis? Workshop Report on the Theory and Practice of Phys... Inquiry: Learning begins with Questions Deadline for VC2005 on the 30th of May Learning for development (Organizational Learning) ICTs and Social Capital in the Knowledge Society: ...