Archive for August, 2008
Online Community
Sunday, August 24th, 2008Online communities, like any community need to have something in common, something needs to bring people together.
But when do all these individual online voices, become a community?
When they listen, and respond and interact, when ideas are collaborated and knowledge shared, when a connection is felt.
What makes a good online community?
interaction, connection openness, communication… Community comes [...]
A blogger’s babel
Sunday, August 24th, 2008The arrow hovers over the publish button as deliberation overcomes me.
what is this for…? I am just contributing to millions of other egos that bumble spewed thought into an endless virtual world? Does publishing this ‘out there’ define me, leave my mark? Should I back away from my mac… exist only like the [...]
Mobile computing without power
Tuesday, August 12th, 2008Studying my Masters of Arts/Masters of IT online with a laptop, a mobile phone, in a cottage in the forest without power would have been unthinkable of before mobile computing made it possible.
Extra tools: a car, a car phone charger, a 100w 12 – 240V inverter that plugs into my car’s cigarette lighter… and a [...]
Facilitating Online Communites
Sunday, August 10th, 2008I often feel that I sit on the fringe of online spaces… maybe I am shy to put my voice online … maybe I would like to pass through the world leaving no mark… maybe I feel there are so many who know so much more…. maybe I should just take a deep [...]