“How do you create a giving culture in an online community?”
July 29 at 4:30 am
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I am facilitating an online community on a wiki to create curriculum for nonprofits. Every week I've been reflecting on the process of working wikily,m along with some "critical friends" who ask me questions or share their reflections. Dave Cormier uses a policy called "This is an add to not a takeaway sort of wiki" It made me wonder about how you create a giving culture in a online community -- http://tinyurl.com/5rv6ar - perhaps this is more applicable to nonprofit, learning, and peer sharing communities. Do you have any thoughts? Got one response from Twitter .... http://twitter.com/pfanderson/... - Beth Kanter
Start by setting a good example (give a lot yourself) and by rewarding good behavior (keep a list of best contributors, praise good contributions etc.). But keep in mind that not everyone in a community is a creator, so plans to include those people as well with a different approach. - Alja Sulcic
check out flowerdust.net she has a blog community that's given over $90,000 to charities. - Tony
I think Alja is on to something. If you are talking about giving knowledge and information, as opposed to money, some people may not realize that their knowledge is valuable, so create mechanisms to draw them out. As we see on FriendFeed, sometimes little polls or conversation threads can grow into mini knowledge-bases. - LauraBrarian