Subject: [IFETS-DISCUSSION:1315] focusing
From: Dorin Arion (dorin.arion@roffeypark.com)
Date: Thu 08 Mar 2001 - 10:46:41 MET
From: Dorin Arion <dorin.arion@roffeypark.com> Subject: [IFETS-DISCUSSION:1315] focusing Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2001 09:46:41 -0000
To spicy things, McLelland (achievement motivation theory...) wrote somewhere that, eventually, small groups in the form of communist cells changed half of the worlds' ideology and attitudes. As a guy who has spent 2/3 of his life in communism I adhere to that.
However, the internet small / large communities self select themselves on a strong and common interst. People like us join as volunteers, and after tasting the community decide to stay or not.
In action learning, on average, people come with different interests, and they are "stuck" with each other. They have individual interests, they want to pursue them in their own way - quite a solitary learning - yet they have to check from time to time with the others in the group, as if asking for 'permission and evaluation' (I haven't forgotten support, just taken it as self-understood)
Co-operating over the net, like for us, is a 'nice to do' and eventually socially desirable ('support') thing that, when has to be instantiated in real time and effort, it just will not be. I myself, am doing this, because I do not have enough opportunities to be in the training room.
Apparently, on-line co-operation should be so easy to do, that people might get a really good taste out of it, and start volunteering, or even seeking it.
My question is, what combination of technology and moderation gives people in such a 'group' the easiest access to a delightful taste, to make them stick with the group. Is it just distribution lists - like this - because the email lands on your computer, with a digest? Are there any other options?
All the long description above is to stop you answer - it depends - though I my impulse is towards that answer too.
Dorin
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