tailieunhanh - UNIT 5. ONLINE FACILITATION LESSON 3. DEVELOPING YOUR ONLINE COMMUNITY CULTURENOTE

At the end of this lesson, you will be able to: • identify factors influencing the development of online community cultures; and • identify activities to enhance online community culture. For an online group to be a “community” it needs to be more than a collection of individuals who have subscribed to a mailing list. Just as putting fifty people in a room together doesn’t make them a community | Information Management Resource Kit Module on Building Electronic Communities and Networks UNIT 5. ONLINE FACILITATION LESSON 3. DEVELOPING YOUR ONLINE COMMUNITY CULTURE NOTE Please note that this PDF version does not have the interactive features offered through the IMARK courseware such as exercises with feedback pop-ups animations etc. We recommend that you take the lesson using the interactive courseware environment and use the PDF version for printing the lesson and to use as a reference after you have completed the course. FAO 2006 5. Online Facilitation - 3. Developing your online community culture - page 1 Objectives Introduction For an online group to be a community it needs to be more than a collection of individuals who have subscribed to a mailing list. Just as putting fifty people in a room together doesn t make them a community subscribing them to a list blog or online interaction space doesn t make them an online community. Community is about the nature and quality of relationships and communication and about shared visions and commitment. 5. Online Facilitation - 3. Developing your online community culture - page 2 Online community culture Online communities develop their own unique cultures which evolve over the course of shared activities especially online discussions. Things like. the level of group posting activity the formality informality of message tone if and how humour is used the balance between social and task-focused interaction the nature and extent of facilitation . all combine to shape the culture of the online community. Online community culture COMMUNITY CULTURE A broad definition of community group culture is The collective beliefs knowledge traditions habits and values that characterize a community or group and regulate the way members interact with each other. Here are some characteristics of culture Culture evolves culture is an accumulation of beliefs traditions etc. which develop over time sometimes over thousands of years .