What do people think? What other roles are required for encouraging meta-community?
Greeter (Welcome Newcomers):
- Greet newcomers upon arrival
- Conduct system tours
- Answer basic questions
- Help people get into conversation, find courses, other activities
- Seek and participate in external and related community events
- Stimulate a conversation, keep it on topic, create and prune topics or threads
- Lead players in learning quests and content creation
- Ensure content is correctly categorized and currated
- Answer activity-related questions (eg, how to use chat tools)
- Select high-quality content to highlight
- Suggest improvement
- Encourage use of quality framework
- Develop quality framework
- Mark inappropriate content for possible removal
- Identify contributor merits
- Select high-quality content to highlight
- Categorize content
- Librarianship duties
- Find and link to related resources
- Mark inappropriate content for possible removal
- Identify contributor merits
- Judge and remove content
- Ban a member from the system for a particular length of time
- Develop community engagement standards
- Enforce standards
- Develop OER
- Provide mentorship, support student lead OER development
- Help select leader recruits
- Conduct classes and training sessions
- Offer one-to-one tutoring
- Evaluate students (through written exams, interactive sessions, peer evaluations)
- Identify contributor merits
- Coordinate the time, place and participants in an event
- Coordinate rich media infrastructure
- Develop and promote tagging, feeds, etc.
- Promote the event (calendar, email, web)
- Host or referee the event
- Post transcript or winners, participate in follow-up conversation
- Identify contributor merits
- Answer technical or social questions
- Request changes or upgrades to the system
- Update frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) list
- Define and promote working groups
- facilitate work group meetings and discussions
- Identify contributor merits
- Recommend leaders for commendation
- Identify categories and assist curation
- Define roles and responsibilities of leader positions
- Create and update leader documents (application, manual, code of conduct, NDA, weekly report template, etc.)
- Identify, encourage and consumate partnerships
- Make policy changes as needed
- Keep leadership positions staffed
Adapted from "Building Community on the Web" by Amy Jo Kim
Sincerely,
Peter