It's all about people and networksA view of people working in networks and communitiesCommunities of Practice, social software offers support for teacher research and professional learning- July 20, 2006 Christopher D. Sessums writes in his blog about An exploration of how social software offers support for teacher research and professional learning. He bridges three topics in his paper: professional learning, communities of practice and social software in general. About communities of practice he says: Given that a community of practice organizational design must be negotiated between immediate members of a learning community, Mejias (2006) suggests that social software provides an ability for.http://www.efios.com/blog/2006/07/21.html#a254 White Label Social Networking Software- July 13, 2006 Thomas Power (yes, the Ecademy one) posted in one of his forums a newsbite about what he calls "a great idea for new brands starting out using social networking". Kickapps is a small company that has created white label social networking software that can be used for startups to create their own orkut, openBC etc. I would argue there is only still a market for the highly specialized ones - maybe even as part of a community building effort - and market for open souce (and freely implemented)...http://www.efios.com/blog/2006/07/13.html#a253 Community web and social networks (Yutaka Matsuo)- July 10, 2006 Found on University of Maryland: a speaking engagement on the 13th of July (Friday) Yutaka Matsuo and Hideaki Takeda will discuss their work on supporting communitys on the Web. The Web is not used just for information publishing but also communication. We model web as an infrastructure to support human activities on information and communication, i.e., community web. In order to explore this concept, we are investigating various possibilities of web from extension of weblog to web mining. We...http://www.efios.com/blog/2006/07/11.html#a252 Evolutionary dynamics and social networks- July 9, 2006 Carlos Garcia Timon has raised a thread in the OpenBC forum on collective intelligence, while trying to pick ideas on different domains. He says that Nature magazine has published an interesting idea from Hisashi Ohtsuki: A cooperative behaviour is succesful from an evolving perspective if the benefits of that cooperative behaviour divided by the cost, exceeds the average number of the network neighbours. Carlos ponders over the idea and saysAnyone can bring some light about this its a simple...http://www.efios.com/blog/2006/07/10.html#a251 Visualization of engineering community of practice- July 9, 2006 I just finished a round of reporting for a global engineering community. Attached is part of the report, which is the visualization of engineering community of practice (Netdraw, >300 nodes). In subsequent posts I will try to post the evolution of this community by introducing the 'time' factor in the network data, years 2001 - 2006. The labels have been removed.http://www.efios.com/blog/2006/07/10.html#a250 |