Monday, November 29, 2010
Online Facilitation
I'm loving this week's topic as it is very relevant to what I am currently working on with The SmartGirls' Way. Right now, we're focusing on filling a blog with content and bringing in readers. Eventually, we will have to be facilitating intereaction in an online community, but as of now, we don't have any models of what that might look like. For now, we have no website or platform except the Facebook page and the blog. Yet, this doesn't seem to be gettting the kind of community building we ultimately want. Is there a place to find different models of online community working? I'd really be interested in reading some casebook material on this if it exists!
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Gail Ann Williams has been writing on www.well.com since the (cue thundering music) DAWN OF THE INTERWEBTUBENETS. A long time ago in a text-only browser far far away...
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The above link is her take on creating and fostering online communities. Some of her stuff may seem dated now, but I encourage you to sift through other parts of her site, too. A lot of smart thought has gone into it over the years.
Here is an index of most of her writing - http://www.well.com/~gail/linear.index.html