{"id":476,"date":"2009-01-14T10:52:35","date_gmt":"2009-01-14T18:52:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spreadingscience.com\/2009\/01\/14\/an-online-discussion\/"},"modified":"2009-01-14T10:52:35","modified_gmt":"2009-01-14T18:52:35","slug":"an-online-discussion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spreadingscience.com\/2009\/01\/14\/an-online-discussion\/","title":{"rendered":"An online discussion"},"content":{"rendered":"

Extending The Discussion<\/a>:
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I love blogging. Your sweat and you write and you post — and every so often you get the chance to have a detailed conversation with someone you’d never ordinarily engage with.<\/span><\/p>\n

Such is the case today — I came to work and found myself scrolling through a multi-page thoughtful comment from John Tropea. <\/p>\n

Rather than responding with another multi-page comment, I decided to put the discussion in a post, and respond (hopefully) conversationally.<\/p>\n

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This is a really nice discussion about top-down Communities of Practice, barriers to entry, how much ‘time’ to devote to oversight, duplicate commuities, etc. All things that any group investigating these technologies shoudl think about.<\/p>\n

The key seems to be to find ways for the groups to grow organically with a lot of top-down overhead. But there does need to be some sort of light touch at the wheel, so to speak, for effective growth.<\/em><\/div>\n

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Technorati Tags: Social media<\/a>, Web 2.0<\/a><\/p>\n

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Extending The Discussion: [Via A Journey In Social Media] I love blogging. Your sweat and you write and you post — and every so often you get the chance to have a detailed conversation with someone you’d never ordinarily engage with. 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