What's the best platform on which communities of practice can gather? There are a lot of choices and the choices seem to be multiplying. We've been following Beth Kanter for almost a year, trying to understand the community that is loosely organized around the nptech tag as an example of a new kind of platform. Add Facebook, Twitter, and the other new entrants in the field and you have too many choices.
But more traditional platforms like Tomoye's Echo, Q2learning's eCommunity, or Web Crossing's offerings are still home to many, many communities. (We couldn't resist going to look at one community that uses 6 different open-source platforms for it's "platform".) And you actually have to pay to use them! Join us for a three-week conference looking at many different platforms (new and old) through the eyes of their communities.
Rather than asking which platform is "the best" we are asking, "what kinds of communities thrives on each of these quite different platforms?" We're inviting community leaders, technology stewards, and software vendors to all spend three weeks together thinking about issues of common concern.
The event is organized by CPsquare members and is open to guests who register here. (CPsquare members who are presenting or facilitating can bring a guest for free.)
Posted by smithjd at January 8, 2008 01:06 AM | TrackBack