WebVisions 2011 presentation, examining three projects of Ecotrust and partners through a Community of Practice framework.

1. Cyberspaces
as Boundary Objects
for Communities
Howard Silverman, Ecotrust
@peopleandplace
WebVisions 26MAY11

2. sustainability

3. Monitoring Methods
G Zone the marine Connect value chains for Develop shared ontology
O environment for protected local/regional foods (data structures and
A areas, wave energy, && (business-to-business vocabulary) and interoperable
L (governance) relationships) standards for counting salmon
S (ecoinformatics)
P Agency staff, scientists, Farmers, ranchers, Agencies, Tribes, Bonneville
E commercial and recreational fishermen, processors, Power Administration, Pacific
O fishermen, industry reps, distributors, chefs, food Northwest Aquatic
P conservationists, && service operators, retailers, Monitoring Partnership, field
L && scientists and practitioners,
E &&
D University of California at ISITE Design, supported by Sitka Technology Group
E Santa Barbara, Ecotrust, The Ecotrust
V Nature Conservancy

4. Sensemaking across community boundaries
Source: Wenger 1998
Design: rocketeye.com

5. Community
Community
--- mutual engagement
Practice
--- shared repertoire
Domain
--- regime of competence
Source: Wenger 1998
Illustration: tmcm.com

6. Platforms for community formation
Mutual engagement (community)
does not exist,
exists
but might (t=0)
Shared
repertoire
(practice) in does not exist, • MarineMap • Monitoring
a regime of but might (t=0) • FoodHub Methods
competence
(domain) • Skype
• Ning
exists • Gmail
• Meetup
• fmyi
Thanks for the conversations: learningalliances.net
** Caution: massive generalizations above

7. What do you think?
howard@ecotrust.org
@peopleandplace