Comments on: Twitter Community of Practice

By: chris

chris — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 23:52:26 +0000

I’ll try not to go too crazy with it. The categories in the paper I was referring to were pretty broad. In order of occurrence (you can tell this is a directed social app)

Coordinating get togethers
Chit-chat
information exchange
answering questions
checking-in/hellos
witty banter

For my purposes looking at a community of practice, I figure expanding the information exchange area seems appropriate. Assuming that it is, as I suspect, a major component.

By: chris

chris — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 23:48:58 +0000

Excellent… a lot of your blogging and conference notes were coming to mind when I was talking with the author of the paper after the session…

By: Alan Levine

Alan Levine — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 23:25:10 +0000

Uh oh a Twitter Taxonomy!

Just kidding. It is helpful to think about the range of communication modes. A few more:

* Call and Response- someone tweets, “Hey I am talking to a group of ________ please tweet in the most important thing you have done in _____________” or …. “Join is in 10 minutes for the live ustream.tv for our conversation with _______ about ________”

* Supportive feedback “great blog post, Chris! Keep up the good fight”

* Retweeting. I;ve seen this where I put out a question or request, and someone else, who has a different set of followers will retweet by request so it reaches farther

By: Nancy White

Nancy White — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 23:16:37 +0000

Here’s another… learning by watching others (Legitimate Peripheral Participation)

Sweet post. Thanks.