Marc's Weblog

Electronic tools for communities

Face-to-face

Knowledge spaces

Training

Education

Learning (in and about a dynamic social environment)

Exploration

Power relationships in communication methods

Broadcast--one to many (cN)????

Connected network (any to any or to many)(cNsquared????)

Group Forming Networks (many to many to many)(c2Nth???)

Communication modes and styles

Complexity and context

Personal views and stories

Threaded conversations

Stories

Broadcast

News (temporal)

News (magazines)

Media

Text, photographs, audio, video

Document management (with links to all other threads or tools feasible)

All types of media and files

All capable of being hyper-linked

Navigation

Menus and Search trees

Search engines

Contextual hyper-linking

Associative linking and filing (like my personal brain software

Asynchronous

SIGNALS for asynchronous

Public websites

Discussion tools

"Comments" tools

List servers

Secure private work spaces

Directories

Pictures

Op Ed

E-mail

Voice mail

Weblogs

News aggregator

RSS

Blog rolls-who is most read

Online (streaming) video

Bridges between asynchronous and synchronous

Presence

Who is doing what "now"

Synchronous

Telephone (including conference calls)

Web conferencing (chat, on-line events?

Conference calls

Voice over IP

Video conferencing (live, dyadic and multiple simultaneous)

E-mail

Secure private work spaces

Instant messaging

Chat sessions

White-board or sketchpad

Signals

Distance learning--on-line collaboration

Synchronous web collaboration (e.g. Web-Ex)

Off line modules--interactive teaching/learning

Community sense-making

Wiki

Social network recording and navigating

Reputation management (ratings)

Contextual inquiry (observational data, ethnographic approach)

Bibliography

Examples and venders

Community we now experience

Introductions

Co-workers

Friends of friends

Introductions by peers or acquaintances

Location in community and in social structures

Congregations

Face-to-face

Parties

Hallway conversations

Offices (ours and theirs)

Conference rooms

Meeting rooms

Auditoriums

Dialogue groups and setting

Resource containers

Libraries with librarians (books stores)

Filing cabnets

Desk tops

Briefcases

Containers

Televison

Video

CDs

Books

Folders

Databases and networks

Shared drives with files and folders

Large group events (to create shared meaning and shared commitment)

Talking during outings or during routine work