Mitchell: Community Types And Facilitation Styles

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Short presentation outlining three different models for understanding 'online communities' and some ideas about how to facilitate them

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Centralised community

HQ central

Group leaderMember

Websitepages

Email listsForumsBlogs

Membershipboundary

Knowledge flows fromPeer to peer

Knowledge flows peer to hub

Group/SIG/CoP

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Centralised Community

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Centralised facilitation

Internal facilitation:

EditingResponding

Finding peopleFinding knowledge

SupportingBalancingNurturing

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CILIP communities: 2

Interesteds with blogs

RSS

De-centralised community

HQ central

Group leaderMember

Website as Hubpages

Email listsEtc.

MembershipBoundary

More porous

Social networks

Reporting

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De-centralised Community

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CILIP communities: 2

Interesteds with blogs

RSS

De-centralised facilitation

Social networks

Reporting

External facilitation:External blogsResponsesAdvisingGroup managementRepresentationKnowledge gathering

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Social model:Facilitation

External facilitation:External blogsResponsesAdvisingGroup management

Internal facilitation:

EditingResponding

Finding peopleFinding knowledge

SupportingBalancingNurturing

Facilitation:inside and out

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CILIP communities: 2

RSS

Distributed community

HQ Central

HubAs smaller

private spaceAND

aggregator

MembershipBounded by

Brand represented

By Keyword

Forums

Announce list

Photo-sharing

Video sharing

Blogs

Shared elsewhere

Shared On hub

Bookmark sharing

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Distributed community

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Distributed community

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Distributed community elements

HQ Central

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CILIP communities: 2

RSS

Distributed facilitation

Forums

Announce list

Photo-sharing

Video sharing

Blogs

Shared elsewhere

Shared On hub

Bookmark sharing

Distributed facilitation:Both internal and

External as before, BUT:

Now hub as aggregator Contextually sensitive to the

different networks

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CILIP communities: 2Distributed facilitation• Understand that your best chance of 'engagement' is by going to where they are• Understand the concept of ‘Community defined by keyword’• Understand the concept of hub as aggregator not owner• Appreciate that assets (pictures, videos, documents, bookmarks) are the individual’s property and they can do what they want with them; it is your privilege that they choose to share with you• Establish and support groups in different social networks• Work with champions who have already established groups in different social networks• Each different social network has different behaviours, language, traditions and metrics• Facilitate information sharing between members across the different social networks• Find the members’ opinions and learnings in all these different places, rationalise them and share them with HQ and others• Measure activity in these social networks suitably and relate it to the org HQ relevantly• Don't try to do it all yourself: find advocates/volunteers/local experts who are wiling to help and work on supporting them

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