Wednesday, July 11, 2007

Social Networks vs. Online Communities

Collaboration Loop - Social Networks vs. Online Communities: "Thus a community is based on fairly intense interactions between its members, while a network is not. According to Ross Mayfield, the founder and CEO of Socialtext, communities are:

* Top-down
* Place-centric
* Moderator controlled
* Topic driven
* Centralized
* Architected

While Networks are:

* Bottom-up
* People-centric
* User controlled
* Decentralized
* Context driven
* Self-organizing"

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