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* Building community: Formation and management of a collection of participants, generally focused on a shared interest or affiliation. Community building is usually included with other goals, such as information exchange. A common example is generic or specialized social networks such as LinkedIn or Facebook.
 
* Building community: Formation and management of a collection of participants, generally focused on a shared interest or affiliation. Community building is usually included with other goals, such as information exchange. A common example is generic or specialized social networks such as LinkedIn or Facebook.
 
* Managing knowledge: Collection, retrieval, and management of shared community knowledge. Common forms of knowledge management include document management systems and wikis. One key to knowledge management is the easy location and retrieval of information to authorized users. In collaborative environments, this often involves searching over a variety of different information sources and media types.
 
* Managing knowledge: Collection, retrieval, and management of shared community knowledge. Common forms of knowledge management include document management systems and wikis. One key to knowledge management is the easy location and retrieval of information to authorized users. In collaborative environments, this often involves searching over a variety of different information sources and media types.
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=== Coordination ===  
 
=== Coordination ===  

Revision as of 11:15, January 22, 2010

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Communication

  • Basic transfer of information between parties such as voice, email, and text. This becomes much more complex when we consider the different ways we communicate, with whom, when, and what we know about them.

Cooperation

  • Publishing/feedback/information exchange: Exchange of information between parties, such as a blog. Exchange is different than simply publishing information, because one goal is to solicit feedback about the information, and another is to build a network of related information and interested parties.
  • Building community: Formation and management of a collection of participants, generally focused on a shared interest or affiliation. Community building is usually included with other goals, such as information exchange. A common example is generic or specialized social networks such as LinkedIn or Facebook.
  • Managing knowledge: Collection, retrieval, and management of shared community knowledge. Common forms of knowledge management include document management systems and wikis. One key to knowledge management is the easy location and retrieval of information to authorized users. In collaborative environments, this often involves searching over a variety of different information sources and media types.

Coordination

  • History and tracking: Logging of information exchanges and other events of interest and the generation of reports. This goal is generally combined with other aspects of collaboration. Discussion forums are a good example.
  • Joint contribution to a work product: Bringing groups together to produce a joint work product. One example is this paper, which was written and reviewed by several participants using a shared web-based mashup workspace. Another is an industry standard that may gradually include contributions from individuals for different companies around the world.


Workspace design evolution starts with observing the workspaces already created, categorizing the features the use (form) and describing how those features work (function) - what tools are used (rss reader, page creator, queries, semantic mediawiki...)


Tasks:

  • Create observation table that identifies workspaces, components and other pieces
  • Harvest workspaces, observe what are pieces that emerge as normally present in the workspace


  • Describe what the pieces are and what tools are used to create them in the tools/methods section.
  • build template with the key features