Community and collaboration media

• Social software
Knowledge environments involving knowledge building.

CCM encouraging evil communities?

• Yesterday's tragical shooting in Kauhajoki, 11 dead! Reflections

Blogs

• Blog = "web log"
Two uses of blogs:
• Group blogs; Imke community blog
• Individual blogs
Blogosphere: Interconnected community of bloggers
• RSS Feed, Blogosphere
Applications: Blogger, WordPress... ?
Your blog address? Set up one.

Wikis

• Asynchronous collaboration
Problem: Edit conflicts! => Need for better underlying engine

Collaboration tools

• Synchronous collaboration
• SubEthaEdit
Google docs:
• Text editor, Example document
• Spreadsheet
• Presentation
• Form

Citizen journalism

• Every citizen is a journalist, E.g. Ohmynews, Wikinews
Phone camera contributions, blogs, videos etc.

Content sharing

Photos

E.g. Flickr, Picasa. Where do you have your photos?

Videos

• YouTube

Presentations

• Slideshare

Music

sharing: LastFM

Bookmarks

• DelIcioUs
Special interest content. Your examples?

Contacts

• Facebook
• LinkedIn

Source

• Open source communities, e.g. Linux

Books

• Shelfari

Places

• Google maps
Wikimapia, add and describe a place, preferably one others would know. Ask others to approve or comment.

Game modifications, quests

• Game modifications shared by a communnity
• Player-created quests

Common about sharing communities?

• Miller (2006) Five rules for building a successful online community

Virtual environments

• SecondLife
• Real economy
• Pasick 2006

Discussion groups

• Discussion groups

Technologies

Mashups

• Embedding
• APIs
• Favourite harbours community

Free tools

• Amazon web commerce

Assignment

1) Manage and share your web presence:Collect and list your CCM on a site (your own server, IMKE, Google, Facebook, ...)
2) How should be establish IMKE community with CCM? Ideas?