Successful online communities
Yesterday I was a guest speaker on a course at our department, called “Creating Experiences in Digital Media”. The course belongs to our undergraduate program on “Digital Media Production”.
I was asked to say something about success factors in relation to online communities, and although it’s not something that I usually talk or write about it was an appealing challenge to summarize my thoughts on this topic. Below you can find my PowerPoint slides (in Swedish). The message of my last slide is “Think community before technology”. I think that is true if you want to have success building an online community. However, my PhD work actually focuses on the real importance of technology and points out the need for an awareness of the complex relationship between social interactions and technical features in online communities.
[...] Successful online communities Yesterday I was a guest speaker on a course at our department, called “Creating Experiences in Digital Media”. The course belongs to our undergraduate program on “Digital Media Production”. I was asked to say something about success factors in relation to online communities, and although it’s not something that I usually talk or write about it was an appealing challenge to summarize my thoughts on this topic. Below you can find my PowerPoint slides (in Swedish). The message of my last slide is [...]