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Full Circle Associates
This is just a sample of the content found on this website. Please visit the website to read the entire page. "Home About Full Circle Resources Contact Us Full Circus Full Circle Associates connections for a changing world, online and offline… Wednesday, August 24, 2005 So What IS a Community Indicator? v1 Warning... long blog post! After sliding into this (un)project on “ community indicators ” over the last month, it’s time to try and explain myself. My friends have been asking for a definition. I hedged. I’ll confess, I worried. By defining it, would I squish the life out of an idea? Ah, me of little faith. Today I decided I’d go for it because, hey, "trust in your community" is a community indicator. Having friends who keep kindly and gently bugging you to make yourself clearer is a community indicator. So if I am living in this pool of indicators, I certainly can make a stab at describing community indicators in the context of online communities. First, the concept of "community indicators" is not a new idea. Community indicators have been used in geographic based communities for some time. (See 1 below.) I'm more specifically interested in distributed and online community indicators. Or the intersection between online and F2F communities and their respective indicators. Second, this is still half baked. This is my first try. I hope you, my community, will ask me hard questions, offer suggestions for improvement so that in a week or two, we’ll actually have something useful. Yes, that activity would be yet another community indicator. Recursive, eh? Grounding: What is a Community? Before we can talk about community indicators, we have to have some common ground about what we mean by “community.” I tried this a few years back with an article, How Some Folks Have Tried to Define Community and What is a Virtual Community and Why Would You Ever Need One? . Earlier this year " .... read entire page
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