Comments on: Social or Community? http://www.jarche.com/2008/11/social-or-community/ Learning & Working on the Web Tue, 16 Mar 2010 18:19:19 -0300 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Jon Husband http://www.jarche.com/2008/11/social-or-community/comment-page-1/#comment-186190 Jon Husband Fri, 21 Nov 2008 19:54:45 +0000 http://www.jarche.com/?p=1917#comment-186190 I think "communities" come together for purposeful activities ... in today's world most purposes are for projects ... just like most work in most organizations now (and increasingly) is related to projects. Thus, of course they rarely last too long ... but I suspect that we will be able to see threads of evolving purpose as communities keep moving, and eventually fractal patterns of human activity. Dave Snowden recently told me that there is deep research going on into that exact topic (so I felt somewhat validated at what was for me sort of an intuitive insight). A perfect field, I think, for wirearchies. I think “communities” come together for purposeful activities … in today’s world most purposes are for projects … just like most work in most organizations now (and increasingly) is related to projects. Thus, of course they rarely last too long … but I suspect that we will be able to see threads of evolving purpose as communities keep moving, and eventually fractal patterns of human activity. Dave Snowden recently told me that there is deep research going on into that exact topic (so I felt somewhat validated at what was for me sort of an intuitive insight).

A perfect field, I think, for wirearchies.

]]> By: Guy Boulet http://www.jarche.com/2008/11/social-or-community/comment-page-1/#comment-186188 Guy Boulet Fri, 21 Nov 2008 17:55:02 +0000 http://www.jarche.com/?p=1917#comment-186188 Look at it this way: my neibour is a member of my social network since fromt time to time I will talk to him about specific issues but other than being neibours we do not have much in common. The social aspect of the relationship is quite involuntary. On the other hand you and I, even though we never met, are both members of the learning community because we both share a common intertest and we give and take in order to foster the advancement of this community. This is the same for social networks: they are social simply because all members share the platform, the way they use it is irrelevant. Social is about being there, community is about contributing. Look at it this way: my neibour is a member of my social network since fromt time to time I will talk to him about specific issues but other than being neibours we do not have much in common. The social aspect of the relationship is quite involuntary.

On the other hand you and I, even though we never met, are both members of the learning community because we both share a common intertest and we give and take in order to foster the advancement of this community.

This is the same for social networks: they are social simply because all members share the platform, the way they use it is irrelevant.

Social is about being there, community is about contributing.

]]> By: Harold Jarche http://www.jarche.com/2008/11/social-or-community/comment-page-1/#comment-186183 Harold Jarche Fri, 21 Nov 2008 00:31:48 +0000 http://www.jarche.com/?p=1917#comment-186183 I might have expected that comment, Stephen ;-) I might have expected that comment, Stephen ;-)

]]> By: Stephen Downes http://www.jarche.com/2008/11/social-or-community/comment-page-1/#comment-186182 Stephen Downes Fri, 21 Nov 2008 00:15:30 +0000 http://www.jarche.com/?p=1917#comment-186182 It's the same group vs. networks thing, with different terminology. It’s the same group vs. networks thing, with different terminology.

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