[p2p-research] building a knowledge commons, the p2p way --> feedback from Natalie

[Michel Bauwens]

Hi Sam,

I think most people don't realize that crowdsourcing/participation does not
come naturally, but needs the occasional stimulus,

there are in fact in my mind at least 2 jobs,

that of curation and content management, a half time job, at least

and that of community faciliation, another half time job at least

for serious projects, these are 2 essential fulltime positions ..

Michel

On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 7:03 PM, Samuel Rose <samuel.rose at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 7:33 AM, Natalie Pang (Asst Prof)
> <NLSPANG at ntu.edu.sg> wrote:
> >
> > Dear Michel,
> >
> > Many thanks for the report. It was a great read, and gave very practical,
> hands-on insights on building and managing the knowledge commons.
> >
> >
> >
> > I share your sentiments about Twitter – to the point that I raise my
> eyebrows whenever I come across any research project aspiring (or claiming)
> to mine knowledge from Twitter. It also struck me that you could provide
> really valuable advice to people attempting to build, or manage their
> knowledge commons – have you ever been approached to do this? Would you be
> willing to? In the constant pursuit of building knowledge commons, I do
> think there is a role for cyberians who can also provide strategic advice on
> the use of participatory interactive media according to the goals of
> individual commons...
> >
> >
>
> This comment by Natalie brings up an important point for me:
>
> How much time does it take to build and maintain something of this quality?
>
> I cannot recall without re-reviewing if the article addressed this. My
> experience in Social Media Classroom, Cooperation Commons, Wiki
> communities online, and my participation in P2PF and HASTAC community
> indicate that a typical knowledge commons needs the near-full time
> curation/editing attention of at least one person (or intensive
> part-time attention of multiple people that adds up to full time).
>
> I believe a significant amount of people think this type of work is
> fairly easy, or that it can just be "crowdsourced" etc. I think if
> more people realized the time and attention this takes, they might be
> more willing to fund this type of work.
>
>
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