Tue, Jan 27, 2004
Sheldon Chang's SocialWave Blog
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SheldonChang, a member of our CollaborationCollaboratory, recently
announced a new blog: SocialWeaver:
Building Real Communities Online. Sheldon has a startup called
SocialWave that builds online communities as a way to strengthen
communities within neighborhoods. He's thought quite a bit about
community-building in general and has a lot of interesting things to
say, which is why I'm very glad to see him join the blogosphere. (W1)
In his first post, "A Real
Model for the Virtual Community," Sheldon suggests that people must
feel comfortable to build their online identities in order for an
online community to be successful. This requirement prevents
effective online communities from truly scaling. (W2)
Sheldon's blog entry generated some discussion in the collaboratory.
JohnSechrest
discussed latent energy in forums, emphasizing the role that lurkers
play in the effectiveness of an online community. He also
posed and
elaborated a theory of group size: The maximum size of a manageable
community is 256 people. (RossMayfield
described a more scientific theory of group size, based on
RobinDunbar?'s research, at his talk last November.) (W3)
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Posted at 11:35pm
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