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Welcome to our Tools for Communities Wiki!

This wiki is a companion piece to a forthcoming book Stewarding Technologies for Communities of Practice by Etienne Wenger, Nancy White and John D. Smith. The report gives a great deal more context to the information in this wiki, but it is our hope that this wiki can be useful by itself, especially with contributions from you. (For information on registration and contributions see How to Use This Wiki. Because of the amount of SPAM we've encountered, until you are 'approved' by one of the editors, you can't comment or modify a page.)

Like all Wikis, this is a work in progress. It collects knowledge about how Communities of Practice use different tools. The vision is to provide a community perspective on these tools and their key features. By "community perspective," we hope this means that you will add your perspective to ours!

The following pages have been edited recently and reflect what we are trying to achieve. You are invited to edit and comment in the Wiki spirit. If you don't feel like editing the actual wiki page, feel free to use the "comments" feature (tab at the top of each page.)

• Blogs
• Chat - see also teleconferencing with chat
• Discussion board - see also Text Discussions with Wikis
• Instant messaging
• Member directory
• Polling
• Presence Indicator
• Tags
• Telephony and teleconferencing - see also teleconferencing with chat
• Wiki

The following pages are from an earlier draft and have not been fully revised. Read with a grain of salt, and please edit or comment!!

• Application Sharing
• Behavioral Parameters
• Calendars
• Commercial Context
• Community entry page
• Community reflection
• Community site look and feel
• Community site personalization
• Connection finders
• Content Management Systems
• Cross-platform issues
• Document Version Control
• Email Lists - see also Text Discussions with Wikis
• Expertise Systems
• Individual profile
• Microblogs
• New-indicators
• Newsletters
• Note Pads
• Participation Statistics
• Platform security management
• Platform-wide Issues
• Podcasting
• Question and Answer
• RSS
• RSS Readers
• Screencasts
• Search
• Site Navigation
• Slide and Video Presentations
• SMS
• Shared Bookmarking — see Tags
• Social Context
• Social Network Analysis
• Social Networking
• Subscription processes
• Technical Infrastructure
• User Groups Access and Security
• Video
• Web Meeting Platforms
• Whiteboard
• 3D Environments?

Suggestions!

Add items and categories we have missed - or some you think we should explore or include.

• tool accessibility issues
• add your own?

Working on This Wiki

• How to Use This Wiki
• Category Questions
• Stuff to Do
• Orientation Experiment
• Tool Description Template
• Use in Combination Template

Wiki Editors

• John Smith
• Nancy White
• Etienne Wenger
• Denham Grey
• Noel Dickover
• Susanne Nyrop