Comments on: Community 2.0 and Las Vegas, Baby http://www.fullcirc.com/wp/2008/02/29/community-20-and-las-vegas-baby/ connections for a changing world, online and offline... Thu, 24 Jul 2008 17:20:21 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Nancy White http://www.fullcirc.com/wp/2008/02/29/community-20-and-las-vegas-baby/#comment-921 Nancy White Wed, 12 Mar 2008 15:11:37 +0000 http://www.fullcirc.com/wp/2008/02/29/community-20-and-las-vegas-baby/#comment-921 Wonderful stories. Thank you both. Keep 'em coming! Wonderful stories. Thank you both. Keep ‘em coming!

]]> By: josien http://www.fullcirc.com/wp/2008/02/29/community-20-and-las-vegas-baby/#comment-870 josien Sat, 01 Mar 2008 16:12:08 +0000 http://www.fullcirc.com/wp/2008/02/29/community-20-and-las-vegas-baby/#comment-870 Interesting. I have logged my "community history" in 2006. http://josien.wordpress.com/2006/04/11/history-of-learning/ I read it just now and this part struck me: "I made great shifts... from perceiving ´the Internet´ as a scary place where you had to be as anonimous as possible, to perceiving it as endless opportunities where you have to profile, identify, expose yourself as much as possible.." (to learn and make sense). Back then, i wondered why i had "discovered" web2.0, while so many of my friends did not. I identified these as "Factors that helped me discover web2.0:" * Having time available * Being at cross roads in life; networking to find my way into a new country; being relatively isolated of academical input or likeminded contacts, no peers around * being between cultures * Simultaneous with my discoveries, the emergence of Web 2.0 and social networking software: technology became social * Finding a field (CoPs and KM) of interest. * Later: Finding a contact f2f So the comment by Sarah resonates with me! So web2.0 is for lonely people ;-)?! Lately I have come to look at this from another angle: people who cross cultures, or disciplines, are the ones that can "cope" better with the transliterary and chaotic nature of web2.0 learning communities. know crisscrossed has blogged his history Interesting. I have logged my “community history” in 2006. http://josien.wordpress.com/2006/04/11/history-of-learning/
I read it just now and this part struck me:
“I made great shifts… from perceiving ´the Internet´ as a scary place where you had to be as anonimous as possible, to perceiving it as endless opportunities where you have to profile, identify, expose yourself as much as possible..” (to learn and make sense).

Back then, i wondered why i had “discovered” web2.0, while so many of my friends did not. I identified these as “Factors that helped me discover web2.0:”

* Having time available
* Being at cross roads in life; networking to find my way into a new country; being relatively isolated of academical input or likeminded contacts, no peers around
* being between cultures
* Simultaneous with my discoveries, the emergence of Web 2.0 and social networking software: technology became social
* Finding a field (CoPs and KM) of interest.
* Later: Finding a contact f2f

So the comment by Sarah resonates with me! So web2.0 is for lonely people ;-)?! Lately I have come to look at this from another angle: people who cross cultures, or disciplines, are the ones that can “cope” better with the transliterary and chaotic nature of web2.0 learning communities.

know crisscrossed has blogged his history

]]> By: Sarah Stewart http://www.fullcirc.com/wp/2008/02/29/community-20-and-las-vegas-baby/#comment-869 Sarah Stewart Sat, 01 Mar 2008 05:20:45 +0000 http://www.fullcirc.com/wp/2008/02/29/community-20-and-las-vegas-baby/#comment-869 I moved from England to New Zealand in 1996. We moved to Gisborne which is a small isolated rural town and very different from the busy city I lived in in England. I was a practicing midwife and felt extremely isolated from midwifery colleagues which was problematic and I felt out of touch with colleagues and the latest evidence about midwifery practice. So I joined an American midwifery email discussion list (the name I cant remember). I loved the sense of community I found there and made some friends that I still have now, but it wasn't my midwifery context. So I founded an email discussion list for NZ midwives in 1997, doing everything manually! In the late 1990s I was able to utilize a listserv. I left the list in about 2002 because my support and professional needs were different to what they had been. But to my knowledge the list is still going strong. As for my professional needs now, I still belong to midwifery research email group but my main professional needs are met by my blog and the blogging community. hope this helps, Sarah I moved from England to New Zealand in 1996. We moved to Gisborne which is a small isolated rural town and very different from the busy city I lived in in England. I was a practicing midwife and felt extremely isolated from midwifery colleagues which was problematic and I felt out of touch with colleagues and the latest evidence about midwifery practice. So I joined an American midwifery email discussion list (the name I cant remember). I loved the sense of community I found there and made some friends that I still have now, but it wasn’t my midwifery context. So I founded an email discussion list for NZ midwives in 1997, doing everything manually! In the late 1990s I was able to utilize a listserv. I left the list in about 2002 because my support and professional needs were different to what they had been. But to my knowledge the list is still going strong. As for my professional needs now, I still belong to midwifery research email group but my main professional needs are met by my blog and the blogging community.

hope this helps, Sarah

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