Stuart French has been working away on his model for wiki participation. Matt Hodgson has expanded it with Stuart into this beast:
There's a lot of very interesting stuff in Stuart and Matt's musings. The critical insight that social software participation can be a mix of either/or both/and "bottom up" vs "top down" is a useful one. I have a few quibble but the key comments would be:
- The activity domain seems to be a bit of an after-thought. What are those 5 kinds of behaviour doing compared to the rest.
- As a way of exploring thinking visually, it's intriguing. But it seems to be getting more complicated rather than less. At some point it has to become a simpler or become one of those complicated diagrams that everyone nods at sagely but doesn't really understand.
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The 5 activities are the collaboration types in social computing environments based on research by Forrester.
Unfortunately, as a meta model, it is going to get more complicated first before it can get simple. This is only due to the fact that the model branches many disciplines and many schools of thought, including knowledge management, group dynamics, group-think, theories of power, change and motivation.
My plan is to continue to evolve it with Stuart so we can make it as simple as E=mc^2
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