(W5) Reflection of Community observation

  The community observation assignment helps me identify some success factors of community building practice. My observation is about a LinkedIn group and a Facebook group of learning design experience. If you are interested in further details, please comment and I can share my observation paper.

  • Integrity of purpose: a meaningful community needs to prioritize benefits for members, which will guide its content and activities. There are chances that some groups are founded and governed for commercial purposes, which is acceptable but should not become a dominant purpose of the group.
  • Investment of content sharing: members should make insightful posts, thus ensuring high-quality content of the group. The post needs to open up for thoughtful discussions or exhibit insightful contents of the topic.
  • Consistency of norm expressions: what the admin write should be what the written norms are demonstrated through posts and interactions in the group.
  • Diversity of content and interactions: the group should encourage diverse content categories and contributions from different members.
  • Reflection of activities: both the admins and members should reflect over past interactions to have key take-away of the domain as well as how to govern and contribute to the group better.
What do you think about success factors of community building, based on your observation so far?

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