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but already adopted by Facebook, MySpace, Microsoft and others.

Why is this relevant to Community Equity ? Well – to calculate the social value of a content object, person, community or tag [...]]]> Activity Streams (http://activitystrea.ms/) is a extension of the Atom feed format to express what people are doing around web. This standard is still in Beta

but already adopted by Facebook, MySpace, Microsoft and others.

Why is this relevant to Community Equity ? Well – to calculate the social value of a content object, person, community or tag we need to capture all activities of a person on whatever site the activity happens. Activity Streams seems to be a perfect fit.

The article below explains the concept of the activity streams standard and provides a mapping between the activity streams verbs and the Community Equity activities.

List of Basic Activities (enclosed sections have been co-authored by Josef Holy and Max Wegmüller)

All activities are described with a user, a verb and object.
Applications implementing this standard, needs to map there specific activities to the verbs and objects defined through Activity Streams.

Let’s start with a listing of basic (general) set of activities which users perform on some Content Object (CO), in the context of the Social Web. Content object can be literally anything – document, file, another user, community etc. Simply put – on the Web, content objects correspond to resources and are identified by URLs (persistent identifiers, which can be accessed and their representation retrieved via HTTP).

The following table contains a very basic list of activities, which can occur between basic entities of the Social Web – People, Content and Groups. These entities and their relationships form a mesh, where people, groups and content are interconnected. Cross-application distribution of activities then means notifying of changes done trough this mesh.

The main focus will be around:

Happy reading and Feedback/Comments are always welcome

At Sun we have a community called Onestop. This is a community of around 300 subject matter experts who voluntary maintain a page around a topic like a product, a technology or a best practice. The people in the field are [...]]]> Recently I got a lot of questions on how to build trusted content with communities.

At Sun we have a community called Onestop. This is a community of around 300 subject matter experts who voluntary maintain a page around a topic like a product, a technology or a best practice. The people in the field are really trusting this content.

As example I got some feedback from a user who told me

” If its not on Onestop it does not exist.”

This is pretty cool and probably the dream of any online marketeers. Community created content is TRUSTED by the community !

But how can you build trusted “bottom up” content?

Its all about how you facilitate the communities !

Content and Trust

As more process you add to the content creation/maintenance as more its get trusted by the user.

Example: Wiki content might be pretty untrusted but a product page maintained by the product group is a highly trusted as it is the System of Record for the product description.

Reputation and Trust

As higher the reputation of a person is as more people trust the content

Example: In this example we look at the overall Java community. If John Doe, a newbie in the Java world blogs about a Java topic the trust is pretty limited but if James Gosling blogs about a Java topic the trust is likely pretty high

Community model and Trust

When we look at the community model e.g. a completely open and unmoderated community versus a facilitated community we discover that well facilitated communities have more trust then open and unfacilitated communities.

Example: A wiki were everybody can publish whatever she/he want is less trusted then a highly facilitated wiki like Wikipedia

Lesson learned for SunSpace

ok – what did we learn when we build and deployed SunSpace internally ?

1. We need to build a content trust model

We learned a lot from our existing Onestop community and applying these best practices to other communities
(read the Onestop blog for details)

2. We need to build a reputation model

People want and need to be recognized for the contribution and participation in communities. With our integrated Community Equity model we now can evaluate the reputation of a person based on their Tag equity related to their contributions.

3. Facilitated community facilitation

Community need active community management !!!

As part of the SunSpace Community methodology we facilitate the facilitation of communities trough our Community Driver community

more about this in a future blog …..

Feedback is always highly appreciated !

During the summit Atlassian announced their Charlies awards.

SunSpace won the The “Not just another wiki” Award: Best use of Confluence.

Thanks to Atlassian and big cudos to the SunSpace team !

This report collects best practices for how to design social features for intranets, including:

The report also covers:

Now you can and it is sooo easy !

You just need to download Netbeans version 6.7

Steps:

1. Login / Register on Kenai

2. Request for a membership in the Project Communit Equity by “bookmark” the project.

3. In Netbeans, login to [...]]]> Do you want to load the Community Equity project from Kenai to Netbeans with a few clicks ?

Now you can and it is sooo easy !

You just need to download Netbeans version 6.7

Steps:

1. Login / Register on Kenai

2. Request for a membership in the Project Communit Equity by “bookmark” the project.

3. In Netbeans, login to Kenai (Menu Team > Kenai > Login)

4. Get the Community Equity (Open Source) code from Kenai, use /trunk to get the latest version

5. Open the 6 downloaded projects. After opening, you may be need to correct the JDK plattform version (to 1.6) in all project properties to a version you have available.

6. Build & Run the project ceq

(Thanks to Max Wegmueller for providing the description)

That’s it …

…and btw Kenai und Netbeans support chat rooms as well – join the Community Equity chat room if you have questions or if you want to meet the Community Equity Community members.

Joining a chat room is easy. Download your favorite jabber client (Pidgin, Adium, etc…) and use the following settings:

Protocol: xmpp or jabber

Username: your kenai username

Password: your kenai password

Domain: kenai.com

Chat room name: community-equity

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