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Jamie Bakergood guidelines for online convos
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Frances LoEncouraging the gift economy in online communities, being a good online host
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Christy TuckerTips for hosts of online conversations. Applies to online facilitators too.
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Heinz WittenbrinkHoward Rheingold beschreibt, wie man sich als Gastgeber einer Online-Community benehmen sollte.
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Peggy GeorgeUseful list of tipcs for virtual communities--"The Art of Hosting Good Conversations Online"--tips could apply to both online writing and podcasting/interviews.
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The Art of Hosting Good Conversations Online
By Howard Rheingold
For Information About Rheingold Associates Virtual Community Services, click here
WHAT AN ONLINE HOST WANTS TO ACHIEVE:
* The ongoing goal is civil discourse: all kinds of people having conversations and arguments about a variety of subjects and treating each other decently.
* Authentic conversations -- from the head, the heart, and the gut.
* A feeling of ownership. Participants become evangelists.
* A spirit of group creativity, experimentation, exploration, good will.
* A shared committment to work together toward better communication, better conversations. If this is achieved, nothing else is needed.
* A system where people figure out where the conversation is going, by themselves, and settle conflicts among themselves.
* A place where everybody builds social capital individually by improving each other's knowledge capital collaboratively.
GOOD ONLINE DISCUSSIONS:
* Enable people to make contact with other people.
* Enable people to entertain themselves rather than being just the passive consumers of canned entertainment.
* Enable people to create a gift economy for knowledge-sharing.
* Create conditions for ongoing collaboration that return individual effort with a whole that is greater than the sum of its parts.
* Provide a way for people to get to know each other beyond their usual masks.
* Make newcomers feel welcomed, contributors valued, recreational hasslers ignored.
A HOST IS...
* A host is like a host at a party. You don't automatically throw a great party by hiring a room and buying some beer. Someone needs to invite an interesting mix of people, greet people at the door, make introductions, start conversations, avert fisticuffs, encourage people to let their hair down and entertain each other.
* A host is also an authority. The host is the pe
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