The document discusses the need for an online community tool to facilitate communication and sharing of reviews between participants of a summer camp. It notes key requirements for the tool, including ease of use, cost, security, and enabling campers to access information and share reviews. Additionally, it mentions restructuring existing groups and forums on the tool and adding virtual counselors.

2. • Why do we need the community
• What functions does the community need
• Is there an all-in-one tool
• Ease of use for us & users
• Cost of tool
• Security & privacy concerns

3. • Provide the Campers with all the info they need
to participate
• Collect the participants’ reviews
• Make reviews available to all
• Avoid a lot of paper(!)
• Make our work easy for checking on reviews

4. http://campreadalot.pbworks.com/

25. Restructuring
groups &
forums
Adding virtual counselors

32. http://metronetmili.pbworks.com/
Month-7

36. Smaller
Communities
through Groups

38. Comments
Discussions

39. Personalization
Aggregation
Interaction

41. • Ease of use
• Common ground & interests
• Customizable with apps
• Focused on the project

42. • Need one or more administrators to stay on top of
things
• Set-up
• Permissions
• Approvals, if needed
• Spam

43. • Moderators
• Make things happen
• Post questions
• Comment on blogs/content
• Forums

45. http://23thingsonastick.ning.com/

46. Membership

47. All user-
generated

48. Members
Create the
Connections
Groups Include:
• By library
• By region
• By interest
• By Activity

50. Connect
Collaborate
Communicate