Wednesday, February 6, 2008

Research Paper involving Community Portals

I happen to stumble upon this paper (Intranets and Social Capital) about Community portals. Have not actually read it entirely, browsing it though seems to be informative to those students intending to work on community portals.

My group and I were discussing the different motivations of neighborhoods going for a community portal. Your ideas are very much welcome. It is very important for any group working on community portals to identify the different criteria that will serve as basis for the selection of “communities”, “groups”, etc. for a portal project.

Subido’s group shared several criteria

  1. Share Files
  2. There is not place to meet as a community (that means members of the community are geographically dispersed)
  3. The community is huge enough such that interaction between members of the community is becoming limited
  4. Interaction is beyond mailbox and bulletin boards

1 Comment:

MonkeyBoy Speaks said...

Comments from the previous home at wordpress:

chengbang69 said this on February 6, 2008 at 1:57 pm

sir, should the portal change the way people communicate (face-to-face will not be needed) or should it simply support their current way of communication?

malabananoliver said this on February 7, 2008 at 5:12 am

Any technology is primarily to support the tasks and processes humans perform. This means that our primary intention is to SUPPORT.