Archive for April, 2007

Membership report March 2007

Thursday, April 12th, 2007

Welcome to our 87 new and returning members who joined in March, 2007. We hope our non-renewing members will stay with STC and wish our departing members well in their affiliation with other STC SIGs. 

As of March 31, 2007 the Online SIG has 1316 members and STC has 12,768 members.

Congratulations to Destry Wion and Rachel Houghton, recipients of the Distinguished SIG Service Award from the STC Board for the Online SIG this year. Destry is honored for his work on the STC Forum (http://stcforum.org) and the STC Wiki (http://stc-on.org) and Rachel for ongoing support of the Online SIG including organzing the Online SIG events at the annual conference this year.

Online communities in companies and organizations

Wednesday, April 11th, 2007

If you’re responsible for building an online community in a company or organization, you may find Online Community Report a useful resource: http://www.onlinecommunityreport.com/ as well as this page by Amy Jo Kim: http://www.naima.com/community/

Additional resources include Nancy White’s site: http://www.fullcirc.com and Howard Rheingold’s Cooperation Commons: http://www.cooperationcommons.org/

There is also an email list: http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/onlinefacilitation/