by Team BE | Dec 29, 2011 | All entries, FAQ's, Resources, Social media
Are Facebook, Linked-In, or Goggle+ tools for communities? Networking websites, such as Facebook, Linked-In, or Google+, offer quick, simple, and cheap ways for communities to open spaces for interaction. While the sites may not offer all the features that communities...
by Team BE | Dec 29, 2011 | All entries, FAQ's, Resources, Social media
Should a community be “tweeting”? Micro-blogging, using a tool such as Twitter or Yammer, has become a very popular way for some communities to stay connected. It is used in a variety of different ways, including to: Stay connected. Micro-blogging allows...
by Team BE | Dec 29, 2011 | All entries, FAQ's, Resources, Social media
Why are analytics important for a community? Analytics, such as Google Analytics, enable community leaders to collect, analyze, and act on data they receive about how people are connecting to their website. Data is easily collected and represented in many different...
by Team BE | Dec 29, 2011 | All entries, FAQ's, Resources, Social media
How do communities use tagging? Communities can use a set of tags as communal keywords, thus creating shared set of pointers to resources relevant to members. A “tag cloud” (the set of tags that a community uses sized according to frequency of use) can be a way to...
by Team BE | Dec 29, 2011 | All entries, Resources, Slides
Click here for an updated version of the slide on this page. Communities of practice usually involve multiple levels of participation. Because involvement can produce learning in multiple ways and the domain has different levels of relevance to different...
