You can't train people to be social - Harold Jarche

Harold Jarche summarises the difficulties in training people to engage with social media and provides a useful list of pointers for creating a supportive social environment.

http://www.jarche.com/2012/02/you-simply-cant-train-people-to-be-social/

Getting to Social - Harold Jarche

Harold Jarche explores the idea that use of social media is comparable to using a new language - you have to start at the beginning and experience it for yourself in order to understand its values and conventions:

http://www.jarche.com/2012/02/getting-to-social/

Understanding Conceptualisation: The process you go through before you launch an online community

A useful checklist from Richard Millington describing the preparation involved in setting up and launching and online community:

http://www.feverbee.com/2012/02/conceptualization.html

Social Networked Learning in complex information environments

A great presentation by George Siemens examining the changing nature of information organisation:

Social Networked Learning

View more PowerPoint from gsiemens

Community lessons

A useful post by Harold Jarche summarising some of the main points about online communities:

http://www.jarche.com/2012/01/community-lessons/

Homework: To Flip? Or to Toss?

An interesting post exploring the practicalities of flipping a classroom:

http://beyond-school.org/2012/01/22/homework-to-flip-or-to-toss/

Community management: planning the week

A useful timetable by Richard Millington to help Community Managers plan their activity for the week:

http://www.feverbee.com/2012/01/planning-the-week.html

He also provides a useful Community Management Map which describes the four stages of online community development: inception, establishment, maturity and mitosis.