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Importance of mutual benefits in online knowledge sharing communities
The sustainability of knowledge sharing e-communities is a major issue at present. A hypothesis was
proposed at the outset in the paper that the provision of mutual benefits among participants will lead to positive
participation. Drawing from the economic and social theories, a framework for analysis was developed and tested in
an empirical study. The preliminary results demonstrated a direct relationship between mutual benefits and the level
of participation, and hence supported the hypothesis
Knowledge sharing in online communities
As organizations increase their offshore software development efforts, they must develop new methods
and models for handling the vast amount of knowledge involved in these projects. Successful
knowledge management and transfer is considered key to the success of contemporary organizations.
When transferring knowledge to other operating units of a multi national company, the overall goal is
to successfully implement the knowledge sent to the receiver. Cultural differences however, can
interfere with successful knowledge management intentions. This paper investigates storytelling as a
tool to transfer knowledge between global corporate units. A case study on how this instrument is used
to communicate knowledge between a German and an Indian IT company gives first insights into
factors that influence implementation success
Online communities: utilising emerging technologies to improve crime prevention knowledge, practice and dissemination
Foreword: Online communities are increasingly being recognised as a way of sharing ideas and knowledge among different practitioner communities, particularly when practitioners are not able to meet face to face. This paper explores the considerations associated with establishing online communities for crime prevention practitioners, drawing on research from across the community of practice, online community and knowledge management sectors.
The paper provides an overview of the administrative considerations of online community development, as well as the key barriers and enablers to practitioner engagement in an online community, and the potential implications for a crime prevention-specific practitioner community. As such, it is a useful tool for those in the crime prevention sector wanting to maximise the influence of an existing online community or to guide those contemplating the implementation of an online community of practice in the future
Challenges in Bridging Social Semantics and Formal Semantics on the Web
This paper describes several results of Wimmics, a research lab which names
stands for: web-instrumented man-machine interactions, communities, and
semantics. The approaches introduced here rely on graph-oriented knowledge
representation, reasoning and operationalization to model and support actors,
actions and interactions in web-based epistemic communities. The re-search
results are applied to support and foster interactions in online communities
and manage their resources
Online Naturalization: Evolving Roles in Online Knowledge Production Communities
Web-based peer production communities, like Wikipedia and open source software, have created digital artifacts of growing cultural, financial, and technological importance. Understanding how and why people choose to join these communities, and why they eventually leave them, is therefore an important topic.
We take all of the edit data from six years of activity on the online genealogy wiki WeRelate, and create monthly snapshots of behavior and interaction networks for all 9,570 users who edited the site. We use machine learning to cluster these behavioral snapshots into four behavioral roles . We identify one of these roles as being indicative of a community of practice, and we investigate how users move from role to role. As in many other online, peer production projects, the vast majority of users are only active for a short time, and contribute very little while a small number of users contribute a great deal.
Figuring out how to recruit and encourage these users is very important to the success of peer production projects. We use visualizations, regression analysis, and stochastic actor-oriented modeling of four different types of interaction networks to study whether these very active users represent a community of practice that new users can learn from and join. We also study how people leave the community, and whether there are signals that someone is starting to disengage.
We do not find much evidence that these users go through a period of legitimate peripheral participation or acculturation. Rather, those who will become core members show behavior that is similar to long-term core members from their first few months on the site. We find that these core members show a clear trend of disengaging from the community over a few months before leaving completely, indicating a period where intervention may be effective. We also find a potentially effective intervention, as those who are actively interacting with others who are core members are less likely to disengage.
Our findings provide implications for understanding how online communities function, how interaction networks influence user activity, and how those who are members of these communities might make them more effective. The study also provides a new methodological framework for studying the influence of communicative interactions in online communities
Knowledge Sharing in Online Cancer Survivorship Community System: A Theoretical Framework
Innovative uses of technology to support patient to patient or patient to clinician knowledge sharing are emerging through professional health institutions and communities that take advantage of social networking technologies. Although successful online health communities exist, many such communities do fail. Researchers have stated that the reason for these failures is due to the lack of evidence-based, scientific guidance in building and managing online communities. Knowledge sharing among participants is important for the survival of online health communities. The most difficult and challenging task for online health communities is to understand why certain participants share knowledge in a sustained manner while others do not. The purpose of this study is to identify the conditions that will predict and prescribe a successful online health community. We propose a theoretical model that presents computer self-efficacy, system capabilities, patient characteristics, appropriation support as determinants of knowledge sharing. We also propose that knowledge sharing affects satisfaction, and frequent usage of online health community networks within online cancer survivorship community
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OERopoly: A game to generate collective intelligence around OER
Collective Intelligence (CI ) is a phenomenon that emerges at the crossroads of three worlds: Open Educational Resources (OER), Web 2.0 technologies and Online Learning Communities. Building CI for the OER movement means capturing the richness of information, experiences, knowledge and resources, that the movement is constantly generating, in a way that they can be shared and reused for the benefit of the movement itself. The organisation of CI starts from collecting the knowledge and experiences of OER's practitioners and scholars in new creative forms, and then situating this knowledge in a collective 'pot' from where it can be leveraged with new 'intelligent' meanings and toward new 'intelligent' goals. This workshop is an attempt to do so by engaging participants in a CI experience, in which they will contribute to, and at the same time take something from, the existing CI around OER, Web 2.0 technologies and Online Learning Communities
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âFairy ringsâ of participation: the invisible network influencing participation in online communities
Individuals participate in many different ways in online communities. There is an extensive body of research describing participation as a key metaphor in communities of practice and stressing that participatory mobility is influenced by underground multidirectional activities, directed away from the notion of periphery to the centre practices and taking the shape of expansive swarming and multidirectional pulsations. This article describes an ongoing observational study proposing a model that attempts to determine how users participate in online communities and what influences them to alter the way in which they participate. We performed daily observations on user participatory behaviour in 50 online communities using public domain â anonymous data available in the communities. The specific communities were selected because they are related to learning and support learning activities within their networks. The data observations collected were analysed using Compendium, a hypermedia knowledge mapping and sense-making tool, to represent and structure the data, make complex cross data queries, test hypotheses and build representation of real examples to support our claims. Initial findings indicate that users connect, participate, contribute and collaborate on a shared objective, transferring information and pooling knowledge within and between communities in four different modes. During their online journey, users switched between modes of participation or even remained in one specific mode, implying that the way in which users participate in an online community is not just related to the mode of participation and the level of engagement with the community but it is also due to hidden reasons or motivations, an invisible network of interactions of elements that affect the willingness of the user to participate. This layer is not immediately evident in the user actions but can be inferred by analysing user reactions. It is argued that user participation in online communities occurs in two layers; the âvisibleâ layer of participation with the different modes; and the âinvisibleâ layer of element interactions, similar to formations observed in nature when a radically spreading underground network of fungi activity results in a ring or arc formation of mushrooms, also known as a âfairy ringâ. These underground multidirectional activities influence participation and participatory mobility. Following an open scientific inquiry approach and an open research paradigm we plan to share these observations with a wider audience of practitioners, researchers and theorists for all to test or contest our arguments, and to enrich, question, or support our model
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