Comments for Making CommunitySense http://communitysense.wordpress.com Community informatics research in practice Wed, 22 Jul 2009 11:11:43 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 Comment on Research consultancy: taking the plunge? by Aldo de Moor http://communitysense.wordpress.com/2009/05/21/research-consultancy-taking-the-plunge/#comment-129 Aldo de Moor Wed, 22 Jul 2009 11:11:43 +0000 http://communitysense.wordpress.com/?p=224#comment-129 This is a very broad question, both "collaboration" and "CI" being such rich concepts with very large connotations. My most focused thinking on this would be my work on activation in collaborative communities: http://communitysense.wordpress.com/2009/03/21/presentation-at-the-national-research-council-canada/ This is a very broad question, both “collaboration” and “CI” being such rich concepts with very large connotations. My most focused thinking on this would be my work on activation in collaborative communities:

http://communitysense.wordpress.com/2009/03/21/presentation-at-the-national-research-council-canada/

]]> Comment on Research consultancy: taking the plunge? by margism http://communitysense.wordpress.com/2009/05/21/research-consultancy-taking-the-plunge/#comment-128 margism Thu, 09 Jul 2009 21:35:51 +0000 http://communitysense.wordpress.com/?p=224#comment-128 (Or, you know, I could click on the "collaboration" tag in the tag cloud...) (Or, you know, I could click on the “collaboration” tag in the tag cloud…)

]]> Comment on Research consultancy: taking the plunge? by margism http://communitysense.wordpress.com/2009/05/21/research-consultancy-taking-the-plunge/#comment-127 margism Thu, 02 Jul 2009 17:04:20 +0000 http://communitysense.wordpress.com/?p=224#comment-127 This is a great blog, thanks for sharing your insight and presentations! I wonder if you have any insight into the challenges of collaboration in CI projects. I have always found interdisciplinary work exciting in its ideas, but it is a mystery to me what are the steps that it takes to go from "idea" to "collaboration". Perhaps an idea for a future post? This is a great blog, thanks for sharing your insight and presentations! I wonder if you have any insight into the challenges of collaboration in CI projects. I have always found interdisciplinary work exciting in its ideas, but it is a mystery to me what are the steps that it takes to go from “idea” to “collaboration”. Perhaps an idea for a future post?

]]> Comment on Research consultancy: taking the plunge? by stijnchristiaens http://communitysense.wordpress.com/2009/05/21/research-consultancy-taking-the-plunge/#comment-120 stijnchristiaens Sun, 24 May 2009 07:39:53 +0000 http://communitysense.wordpress.com/?p=224#comment-120 Excellent advice. Excellent advice.

]]> Comment on Research consultancy: taking the plunge? by Slinger Jansen http://communitysense.wordpress.com/2009/05/21/research-consultancy-taking-the-plunge/#comment-119 Slinger Jansen Fri, 22 May 2009 17:31:58 +0000 http://communitysense.wordpress.com/?p=224#comment-119 Aldo, another advice I would like to add to the list is to start connecting up with business early in your career. During my PhD I was already building websites, giving SE advice, and implementing that advice. This was great because with the many vacation days you get as a PhD I could do some work on the side (although I might've worked on the weekends sometimes as well). Now recently I established Slinger Research and Development BV, pretty much based on all the things I did back then. I'm not considering a full-time consultancy career, even if profitable, but it was a great fallback option back then. Now the BV is my savings account, but if something were to happen to my research career, I can always work in my own BV :-). Aldo, another advice I would like to add to the list is to start connecting up with business early in your career. During my PhD I was already building websites, giving SE advice, and implementing that advice. This was great because with the many vacation days you get as a PhD I could do some work on the side (although I might’ve worked on the weekends sometimes as well). Now recently I established Slinger Research and Development BV, pretty much based on all the things I did back then. I’m not considering a full-time consultancy career, even if profitable, but it was a great fallback option back then. Now the BV is my savings account, but if something were to happen to my research career, I can always work in my own BV :-) .

]]> Comment on Presentation at the National Research Council Canada by Research consultancy: taking the plunge? « Making CommunitySense http://communitysense.wordpress.com/2009/03/21/presentation-at-the-national-research-council-canada/#comment-118 Research consultancy: taking the plunge? « Making CommunitySense Thu, 21 May 2009 12:36:41 +0000 http://communitysense.wordpress.com/?p=210#comment-118 [...] + More own research agenda Rather than having to adhere to an institutional research agenda, you can set and follow your own, personal research agenda, which you pursue in the context of your total portfolio of self-selected projects. This allows you to focus, for as long as you want and in many different settings, on the main research questions that fascinate you. In my case, one overarching question is the activation of online collaborative communities. [...] [...] + More own research agenda Rather than having to adhere to an institutional research agenda, you can set and follow your own, personal research agenda, which you pursue in the context of your total portfolio of self-selected projects. This allows you to focus, for as long as you want and in many different settings, on the main research questions that fascinate you. In my case, one overarching question is the activation of online collaborative communities. [...]

]]> Comment on From Inspiration to Activation: Making Online Collaborative Communities Work by Presentation at the National Research Council Canada « Making CommunitySense http://communitysense.wordpress.com/2009/01/23/from-inspiration-to-activation-making-online-collaborative-communities-work/#comment-103 Presentation at the National Research Council Canada « Making CommunitySense Thu, 02 Apr 2009 21:47:32 +0000 http://communitysense.wordpress.com/?p=181#comment-103 [...] Inspiration to Activation: Making Online Collaborative Communities Work” that I gave at the University of Alabama in Huntsville, this time at the National Research Council Canada Institute for Information Technology in [...] [...] Inspiration to Activation: Making Online Collaborative Communities Work” that I gave at the University of Alabama in Huntsville, this time at the National Research Council Canada Institute for Information Technology in [...]

]]> Comment on ALOIS 2008 conference by From Inspiration to Activation: Making Online Collaborative Communities Work « Making CommunitySense http://communitysense.wordpress.com/2008/04/08/alois-2008-conference/#comment-94 From Inspiration to Activation: Making Online Collaborative Communities Work « Making CommunitySense Fri, 23 Jan 2009 05:26:39 +0000 http://communitysense.wordpress.com/?p=25#comment-94 [...] Huntsville Distinguished Speaker series. It was a revised version of the invited talk I gave at the ALOIS 2008 conference in Venice in May 2008. In the lecture I addressed how collaborative communities require not only the sense of purpose and [...] [...] Huntsville Distinguished Speaker series. It was a revised version of the invited talk I gave at the ALOIS 2008 conference in Venice in May 2008. In the lecture I addressed how collaborative communities require not only the sense of purpose and [...]

]]> Comment on Liberating Voices book published by Pattern Language and Communications « Stephen C. Rose http://communitysense.wordpress.com/2008/12/08/liberating-voices-book-published/#comment-64 Pattern Language and Communications « Stephen C. Rose Mon, 08 Dec 2008 16:00:49 +0000 http://communitysense.wordpress.com/?p=147#comment-64 [...] The source for the quote above and other thoughts on communications and pattern language is here. [...] [...] The source for the quote above and other thoughts on communications and pattern language is here. [...]

]]> Comment on Installing MediaWiki by Aldo de Moor http://communitysense.wordpress.com/2008/08/02/installing-mediawiki/#comment-60 Aldo de Moor Thu, 13 Nov 2008 09:38:32 +0000 http://communitysense.wordpress.com/?p=28#comment-60 Unfortunately, the performance of SiteGround has become very unpredictable in the past few months. I am now moving my applications to another provider. I can thus no longer recommend this provider. Unfortunately, the performance of SiteGround has become very unpredictable in the past few months. I am now moving my applications to another provider. I can thus no longer recommend this provider.

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