Tag: virtual gated communities

Onbalans in communities

Jeroen Mirck postte gisteren hoe hij zijn Twitter-koppeling met de wie-wat-waar-functie van Hyves heeft uitgezet omdat hij klachten kreeg over het vervuilen door zijn tweets. Omdat hij relatief zoveel twittert worden de overzichten van hyves-vrienden ondergesneeuwd door zijn tweets.

Ik heb ditzelfde signaal weleens gehad. Niet in Hyves, maar in Plaxo. Ik word regelmatig aangesproken door niet twitterrelaties die mijn tweets in Plaxo zien, waarbij vaak gekscherend wordt gezegd dat die wel heel dominant zijn. Nog niet tot directe klachten gekomen, maar ik maar besloten preventief te handelen. 

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Thoughts on the Walled Garden

Last week I attended the conference Walled Garden that found place in the Lloyd Hotel in Amsterdam. Organized by the foundation Virtueel Platform. A very interesting topic as far as I’m concerned; I even presented a talk on Reboot last year on the same topic.

What is the Walled Garden? As the organization it puts:

WALLED GARDEN will address issues of identity, mobile communities and networks by focussing on the tendency towards online gated and closed communities. How does this affect the (in)accessibility of information and knowledge?

So what is future of communities in social media. As the networks become more popular and the use more personal, will we close then our community? And what kind of organization will emerge out of it?

The conference was divided in some plenary sessions and in depth workgroup sessions on of the aspects of the Walled Garden. My workgroup discussed about the future of cultural organizations, with aim to come up with a model for an organization that act completely in a virtual environment.

What did I think of the conference?

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