Criteria
for Best Known Methods of Community Webweaving
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- Engaging story line
- A site should awaken our sense of being part of an exciting larger story.
- A changing, continuously unfolding storyline will attract frequent repeat visits.
- Enticing interaction design
- Good interaction design is evocative; it triggers increasing levels communication, collaboration and coordination among its users.
- Interactivity ranges from mail-to forms and one-way surveys, to the higher levels of hyperconferencing, MUDs, and online transactions.
- Effective tools and methods for growing a community
- We won't give you a description of this factor of social design in successful community webweaving. Instead we offer a link to the Community Building: Renewing Spirit and Learning in Business. In this book's table of contents you can visit online chapters and find good descriptions of various tools and methods for cultivating community at the workplace.
- Excellent value added to community stakeholders
- The website should serve the needs and aspirations of all its stakeholders: visitors, users and members. For example, up-to-date news-to-use from the cutting edge of a subject or topic important to the community.
Knowledge, Technology and Organic design
- Great content
- Unique and well-edited
- Light and profound
- Changing and growing in value, by commentary and continually added links
- Have comprehensive scope and depth or unique and strong point of view
- Convenient and effective information retrieval
- Clear and fully functioning navigational maps and signposts
- with well-conceived icons that imprint memory and clearly marked trails
- Collaborative intelligence support tools
- Software tools are available that enable of the community's collaborative intelligence to express itself through knowledge networking, shared memory, co-authoring.
- Visual language
- The site's visual language should allow the easy absorption of complex information. For example, informative icons and 3D-charts and colors.
- Visualizing a personal and/or collective "information web"
Social, Technology and Organic design
Interacting with objects, simulation, appletsInterface attractivenessThe use of 3D space and VRMLAutomatic generation of "knowledge-gaining connections"Dynamic images (animation, video sequences)Social, Knowledge and Organic design
- Concentric circles (pebbles thrown in the pond)
- Hexagon of honey comb and snow crystals
- Spiral as in vortex, cyclone, and galaxies
- The four directions of the compass
- The cycle of seasons
Social, Knowledge and Technology design
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