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Looking at the latest Elgg powered project (via Jeremy) TeacherEd it went through my mind that there are two very different ways in which you can develop online communities in, to take this case, the professional side of education.

I’d define these approaches as being largely delineated by the focus being on the people in the community or the room (read ‘environment’) which they’re using. And I’d argue that there are very very significant differences here which will dramatically effect the success or otherwise of your project.

Update: Yes, I definitely get the message, and am wondering why I did extracts in the first place, full feeds full on from here on in! Thanks for all the comments!!!

This is just a quick straw poll:

Would you like blogsavvy to provide full RSS / Atom feeds?

Am starting to wonder if there’s any real benefit from providing limited feeds, would you particularly like to receive full feeds or don’t you care?

Thanks for taking the time to comment!

First up congratulations to Turboblogger on a fancy new design… but also I’m intrigued by the new RSS feed styling and the questions it raises about RSS use.

First up, don’t get me wrong, I’m a huge fan of non-commercial use licenses and have the regular CC one here.

Also, I’m publishing a limited characters RSS feed, and I’d get pissy if , for example, someone republished the feed using one of the features in FeedWordPress which allows them to make all syndicated links point to the site that’s doing the syndicating!

Talking to a client the other day we figured out that the best thing she could do for her cause (promoting research into social justice in education) was to use a blog. We didn’t, however, come to the conclusion that we were after an everyday, every week posting strategy or that we were looking to develop large social networks…. we figured out that a blog would be the best way to promote, distribute, archive and make interactive and available research findings, commentary and resources in the field.

Over the last few weeks I’ve had a few of those moments that combine to form a much larger moment where things start to make sense.

In more or less chronological order this is how it goes:

1. Talking to Adrian on the plane to Blogtalk – I argue that the most significant aspect of blogs is the kodakisation of publishing he says that it isn’t, it’s the fact that pretty much anyone can now have an enormous multi layered website.

2. On the blogwalk there was quite a discussion about archiving, linking in nicely with an iterative conversation I’d…