Aug 04 2011
Index to the vignettes
The little stories or vignettes that appear in text boxes throughout the book did not make it onto any list or the index. Here is the title and page number for each one of the 40 vignettes.
| Chapter 1 | Page |
| MPD-SUPPORT-L: email list or community of practice? | 5 |
| Chapter 2 | |
| Responding to community inventiveness | 20 |
| Chapter 3 | |
| Stepping into the role | 24 |
| From curious explorer to thought leader | 29 |
| Technology stewardship for a constellation of communities | 32 |
| Chapter 4 | |
| Compromises for the community as a whole | 44 |
| The evolution of a configuration | 46 |
| Tools can create gaps between members | 47 |
| Busy people want it all in one place | 50 |
| Many websites that work “as one” | 51 |
| Integration as a community practice | 53 |
| Chapter 5 | |
| Shifting for inclusion and flexibility | 56 |
| Unexpected use of technology through everyday inventiveness | 61 |
| Using tools that were not designed for communities | 62 |
| Coding the “glue” | 63 |
| Tools offering new possibilities | 65 |
| Feeling like we are together | 66 |
| Chapter 6 | |
| Artifacts or conversations? | 70 |
| From weekly broadcasts and conversations to a sense of community | 73 |
| Open-ended conversation grows beyond a single stream | 76 |
| Beyond conversations to projects | 79 |
| Building a library by tagging | 81 |
| Just-in-time expertise | 84 |
| Beer offline and online | 87 |
| Accommodating participation styles | 89 |
| Careful cultivation as key success factor for online community | 94 |
| Oreintation to an organizational context embedded in technology | 97 |
| Chapter 8 | |
| Bringing it under one roof | 122 |
| Software and community development combined | 124 |
| Mashup for a community map | 127 |
| Chapter 9 | |
| Stewarding prompted by community needs | 135 |
| Carrying key artifacts forward | 138 |
| Learning to use a new tool | 139 |
| One question uncovers many practices | 140 |
| Tech stewards look over each others’ shoulders | 141 |
| Experimenting as the heart of a community | 142 |
| Darned if you do, darned if you don’t | 143 |
| A cautionary tale | 144 |
| Chapter 11 | |
| Venturing into new community geographies | 179 |
| Chapter 12 | |
| The NPtech community: What is in a Tag? | 192 |
[…] One change that the electronic format will require is that the 40 illustrative stories or vignettes that are shown in the book as floating text boxes won’t float on a page but will show up between paragraphs. In this case, having to deal with that little detail means that we made a list of all of them. For some reason such a list was never part of the book the vignettes were not included in the index! Now here’s a list of them. […]