As promised, here are the materials from the workshop I gave out yesterday at LIFT 08 about Online Communities Design Patterns. The presentation as I’ve said before is still a work in progress since I’ve started it for Web2Expo Berlin last November, so they share quite a lot in common.
If you’re interested, you can get the FULL VERSION of the presentation in PDF or you can simply watch the Design Patterns part on SlideShare (sorry, but the 30Mb limit on SlideShare wouldn’t let me post it in it’s full extent):
I’ve also prepared a Patterns Matrix that basically categorizes the patterns in four different classes that you can use to test or plan your own community according to the patterns use or misuse:
- Community Support Patterns: Registration, Login, Welcome Area , User Profile, Users Lists, Buddy’s List, Exit / Suspend;
- Group Support Patterns: Invitations, Shared Artifacts, Reputation, Voting;
- Communication Support Patterns: Messaging, Comments, Chat, Forums;
- Awareness Support Patterns: Neighbors, Activity Logs, Interactive User Info, TimeLine, Periodic Reports, Aliveness Indicator.
Mark Kuznicki took some pretty extensive notes from the workshop, so you might as well gave them a loon if you’re interested.
One special work to the crowd that actually stood up for the 3 hours the workshop took: Thanks 
February 7th, 2008
Após o sucesso do “Calendário da Má Usabilidade 2007″, a NetLift acaba de publicar a edição do mesmo relativa ao ano de 2008, e à semelhança do que tinha feito no ano passado, resolvi traduzi-lo (mais ou menos) para Português. Se, se interessam por usabilidade sugiro que façam download da versão original em inglês ou da versão que traduzi para português clickando na imagem abaixo:
February 5th, 2008
LIFT08 is happening this coming week in Geneva, it’s concept is very similar to the one we tried to accomplish in SHiFT (which we hope to deliver yet again this year - three full days of workshops, talks, social activities and discussions to get a look at the most important technological trends and meet the people behind them.
After almost didn’t make it this year (time constraints and in the end Patrícia not being able to come along), in the end I’ll be in Geneva to take part of this amazing event and I’ve even proposed an an experimental workshop on Online Community Design Patterns.
This workshop is the evolution from my “Conversational Design presentation“, that I presented last november at the Web2Expo in Berlin . Back in November I tried to squeeze a lot of information in a 50 minute presentation and although the feedback was more than positive, the fact was that I had to leave quite a lot out. The initial presentation aimed to be more practical than theoretical, so in a sense the move to a workshop makes more sense, workshops enable participation and sharing, so in the end we’ll manage to hear, learn and test a lot more than my ideas on this subject.
I envisioned the workshop program into a two part program, a presentation introducing:
- Social Web and Online Communities
- Conversational Patterns: Conversation Maxims on online environments
- Online Communities Patterns: Community Support Patterns and Group Support Patterns
and some group work involving all the participants (analyzing existing online communities of choice according to the materials presented before).
In the end the groups will share their findings with the remaining groups and I hope we managed to learn and share a bit more about what makes an online community thrive or die.
As side note about the workshop materials, I’ll publish them here after the workshop takes place. (yes.. as usual I’m still working on them) 
February 3rd, 2008