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Digital Habitats stewarding technology for communities Etienne Wenger Nancy White John D. Smith http://www.technologyforcommunities.com

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Digital Habitatsstewarding technology for

communities

Etienne WengerNancy WhiteJohn D. Smith

http://www.technologyforcommunities.com

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What the %&*# is a technology steward?

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http://www.flickr.com/photos/dani3l3/364684710/

“Technology stewards are people with enough experience of the workings of a community to understand its technology needs, and enough experience with technology to take leadership in addressing those needs…

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Stewardship typically includes selecting and configuring technology, as well as supporting its use in the practice of the community.”

Wenger, White and Smith, 2007

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Technology stewardsenable people to…• discover & appropriate useful

technology• be in and use communities &

networks (people)• express their identity • find and create content• usefully participate

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… meetings

… relationships

… community cultivation

… access to expertise

… projects

… context

… individual participation

… content publishing

… open-ended conversation

Community activities

oriented to …

Base material from: Digital Habitats: Stewarding technology for communities

© 2009 Wenger, White, and Smith

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Togetherness Separateness

Interacting/participation Publishing/reification

Individual Group

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addressing inherentaddressing inherentcommunity polaritiescommunity polarities

Group

IndividualParticipation

Reification

asynchronous synchronous

discussion boards

teleconference

chat

instant messaging

member directory

wikiblog

telephony/VoIP

individualprofile page

e-mail

e-mail lists

scratch pad

RSS

“new” indicators

subscription

podcast

contentrepository

presenceindicator

buddy list

security

Q&A systems

RSS aggregator

newsletter

calendar

videoconference

application sharing

whiteboard

site index

participation statistics

search

subgroups

personalization

communitypublic page

versioncontrol

documentmanagement

UseNet

contentrating

scheduling

polling

commenting

networking tools

tagging

bookmarking

sharedfiltering

geomapping

interestfilter

Etienne Wenger In collaboration with Nancy White and John Smith

micro-blogging

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More…

Etienne Wengerhttp://www.ewenger.com

Nancy Whitehttp://www.fullcirc.com

John David Smithhttp://www.learningalliances.net

Book Site http://technologyforcommunities.com Tools Wiki:http://cpsquare.org/wiki/Technology_for_Communities_project