Growing Resource on Online Community and Social Networking
My may, it seems like social media design is the new in thing. I'm amazed at how many people are jumping in. It used to be this field (what field? That is probably a whole other post) of working with online interaction was fairly small. Now it is exploding. One of the entrants, Shara Karasic, is amassing a nice index of public online community and network sites as well as links to resources. Check it out: online community & social networking super list
The one thing I want to keep on the radar screen with these lists is that when we talk about "online community" it is not just the list of public communities. There is a dense collection of private communities, work and learning communities, etc., that merit attention in terms of tools and practices. They don't always benefit from the approaches we take with large public communities and when we mosh all our things together, we miss this distinction. Sometimes it worries me. Oh well.
Thanks for the great resource, Shara!
posted by Nancy White at 8:12 AM
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I've noticed that people have been rather shying away from the word 'community' - preferring instead 'networks', or being 'web2.0 consultants' these days. This strikes me as a little sad as 'community' means a great deal which networks and web2.0 don't... but hey ho -
Hi Nancy, thanks for mentioning my online community list. I have seen people first using the term "community" like crazy (in the mid-to-late 1990's), then dropping it like a hot potato as funding dwindled (suddenly becoming "user experience experts", etc.), and now it's in again, at least in LA where I've moved, among all the media types.
By the way, I guess I'm an "entrant" in the online community space since I've only been doing online community since 1995, [Cyberteens, then Classroom Connect's Quest adventure learning site, then the Schwab Foundation, etc.] ...and I know some of you have been doing it since before the Web existed. ;-)
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