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Digital Habitatsstewarding technology for
communities
Etienne WengerNancy WhiteJohn D. Smith
http://www.technologyforcommunities.com
What the %&*# is a technology steward?
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“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…
Stewardship typically includes selecting and configuring technology, as well as supporting its use in the practice of the community.”
Wenger, White and Smith, 2007
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
Togetherness Separateness
Interacting/participation Publishing/reification
Individual Group
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 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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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