tag:blog.jackvinson.com,2007://1/tag:blog.jackvinson.com,2006://1.7838- 2007-12-03T11:48:37Z Comments for Communities of biologists request for help Jack Vinson writes about knowledge management, personal effectiveness, theory of constraints and more. As of December 2007 Jack will likely start writing about product management too. Movable Type 4.01 tag:blog.jackvinson.com,2006://1.7838.3360 Comment from Tammy on 2006-04-04 Tammy http://www.aggregatedlife.com Perhaps this should be a KM class project this quarter. Put all those eager minds to work!

]]> 2006-04-04T19:22:40Z 2006-04-04T19:22:40Z tag:blog.jackvinson.com,2006://1.7838.3362 Comment from Christina Pikas on 2006-04-08 Christina Pikas http://christinaslibraryrant.blogspot.com I'm a little behind in my blog reading, but does he know about SEEK? It's a wiki with resources for ecoinformatics and I think one of the goals is community. http://seek.ecoinformatics.org/Wiki.jsp?page=WelcomeToSEEK

Also, I looked a bit at CoP in the sciences and in engineering -- designers need to design in sociability as well as usability. Also, depending on the actual field and its proximity to industry, there might need to be more rules for who gets to participate and how contributions are moderated. So, for example, many areas of physics have a long standing tradition of sharing data/info/knowledge where most areas of chemistry (esp. pharma) are quite leary of talking outside the lab in substantive terms. I don't know specifically about natural resource managers, but I would assume they'd be more into sharing. All we learned about informal scholarly communication before online communities still applies. Jenny Preece has done the main work on designing sociability into online communities. She's also looked at the role of lurkers. HTH. Some of this is discussed on our fledgling CoP for learning about CoPs: http://128.8.224.227/tikiwiki/tiki-page.php?pageName=index

]]> 2006-04-08T14:58:34Z 2006-04-08T14:58:34Z tag:blog.jackvinson.com,2006://1.7838.3365 Comment from Tim Thomas on 2006-04-11 Tim Thomas Great Links, Christina! I've not seen SEEK and it looks like a good example of a wiki. I think these particular biologists may be interested in the wiki structure as a means of capturing knowledge as they go along.

I hope you other link helps with the distributed nature of the CoP and the issue of lurkers. I'll dig in this weekend!

Cheers,
Tim Thomas

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