Collaboration, Community and Sharing

This section outlines different types of community functionality that may be valuable. 8.1 Content Tools Content management and file repositories—Many communities of practice revolve around sharing and disseminating knowledge artifacts. Community platforms need to mix more traditional Web content management with social networking or other forms of collaboration. Variations run from simple file lists with folders to more complex hierarchical listings with metadata-driven filters. The amount of content a community might hold is obviously a primary driver in the choice of needed features. Larger amounts require a greater ability to organize and browse content. Size of community and familiarity of members with each other also makes a difference here. Smaller online communities reflecting existing offline networks can often manage a … More

With social media so often in the news it's common for people to get bogged down with wanting to have a Facebook page or a Twitter feed.  Such thi

Your success metrics should start providing value for the project from Day 1, well before the results are measured.

Bruno claims you don’t create a community, you provide the platform for that audience to gather and connect. Forgive the semantics here, but we do create the community. We build the relationships between members. We embed the elements that develop...