Hello Fellow WEs, I believe that simplicity would be an strategy to encourage community involvement. Personally, I am rather intimidated by formality and work better in informal environments.
** The following summarizes some of my thoughts on the subject of formality and informality in working groups in communities:* * *"Modes of social activity in organizations are frequently described using the terms "formal" and "informal." Behavioral and situational informality entails loose, spontaneous, more casual social intercourse and comportment. Formality, in contrast, designates tighter, more deliberate, impersonal modes of conduct, as well as settings that occasion such conduct. A study outlines a number of specific behavioral and contextual codes of formality and informality and explores how these categories of social activity may be related to organizational effectiveness. Specifically, it explores how behavioral informality may be instrumental in the social construction of innovative, organic work organizations and how formality is implicated in the social construction of bureaucratic, impersonal work organizations. "* For further reading<http://www.personal.psu.edu/dam9/Behavioral%20Formality.doc> ... Thank you. Warm wishes, Nellie Deutsch Sharing is Caring! Doctoral Student Educational Leadership Curriculum and Instruction Get ready for CO10: http://connecting-online.ning.com/ Free online workshops on WikiEducator: http://www.wikieducator.org/Workshops On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 10:14 PM, Randy Fisher <[email protected]> wrote: > This is a GREAT idea! > > - Randy > > On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 9:29 AM, Alison Snieckus < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 8:57 AM, valerie <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> <snip> >> >> >I would like to see more, easy to participate projects, so that if >> someone has a couple of hours, they can contribute something >> meaningful to the WE community. This might be a dynamic "job jar" with >> instructions for each item, rated by WE knowledge level / skills and >> time commitment.< >> >> <snip> >> >> >> I agree, a community "job jar" would be a wonderful way to get to know our >> neighbors while getting some work done! I think we discussed this idea not >> too long ago (here? on the wiki?) One suggestion at that time, I think, was >> to add one or more fields to a content infobox that would populate a >> category listing. Implementing and maintaining a system like this would >> probably need some dedicated volunteers helping in the background, certainly >> to get it started. >> >> Maybe we should set up a Community Workgroup to figure out a reasonable >> process and get the necessary "tools" in place. (See procedure and policy >> for starting a community workgroup at >> http://wikieducator.org/Workgroup:WikiEducator_Workgroups/Guidelines ). >> >> Anyone interested in getting this started? The first step is to announce >> the idea on this list, get feedback and determine interest -- seems like >> there's interest. Next step is to set up a Workgroup page in the Workgroup >> "namespace" on WE and then invite volunteers to join. >> >> Looking forward to making those small contributions! >> Alison >> >> >> >> >> > > > -- > Open Education is a sustainable and renewable resource. > > ________________ > Randy Fisher, MA, OMD > Senior Consultant & Facilitator, Intersol Group, Canada > > Senior Consultant, Organization & Business Development > International Centre for Open Education / OER Foundation, New Zealand > > Elected Member, WikiEducator Community Council, www.wikieducator.org > +1 613.230.6424 x144 (EST) > Skype: wikirandy > Twitter: wikirandy > > * Stakeholder Engagement, Change / Transition Management & Performance > * Organization Design & Development > * Sustainable Project Implementation & Community-Building > * E-Learning, Online Collaboration & Communities of Practice > * Coaching & Facilitation > * My Bio: http://www.communitybuildingexpert.com > > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "WikiEducator" group. To visit wikieducator: http://www.wikieducator.org To visit the discussion forum: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
