- community are people not places
- two real benefits of comunities ove r networks might be are that the boundaries can help people otherwise reluctant to jump in, and the offer more opportunities for "bumping into each other", ability to achieve a specified goal, they tap into a natural desire to belong
- rather than "look at what you can get" flip it around to "hey, you could help give"
- rather than "online community" "online spaces to support communities
- a size issue - after a certain point, you need "communities" not "community""
- networks may envcourage echoes whereas communities may encourage encountering diversity
- communities don't necessarily scale, networks do; networks can augment communities
Raw Notes - Our Space vs My Space(s)
- digital identity (harvesting)
- personal brand management / lifestreams
- portable identity
- value in having different identities
- role instead of identity
- facets
- "networks in spaces you go to" -
- communities can conceivably be consensually defined instead of centrally defined
- project with a real aim that united us
- projects can get funding, networks have a harder time
- individual campus communities want to retain their individual identities
- "go beyond" - go beyond initial committments, go beyond initial community, helps them be a part of a larger collective
- network can be less focused and longer duration
- showing that we are all united, the "movement" that unites these individual actions
- anecdote - allowing people to attach a personal photo to individual news stories helped increase sharing aross Go Beyond community
- "we are interested in sustainability, what's your major" based on response, enlist them in that particular role
- rather than "look at what you can get" flip it around to "hey, you could help give"
- affinity, learn from others
- collective identity that is lost
- part of something bigger than yourself; belonging, fundamental to huma nature
- community is much bigger committment
- "online community" is a terrible phrase; rather "online spaces to support community"
- a size issue - after a certain point, you need "communities" not "community"
- bumping into each other - multiple casual interactions; hallway conversations
- increased diversity of interactions in communities
- what is a measure of success? not sheer number; effectiveness towards a common goal
- bounding an event in time or space can actually enable people to go further