Public vs. private discussions in communities: research implications

I’m thinking about the impact of public and private discussions in communities ideas for my PhD. One of the challenges I have is to measure knowledge sharing and learning as invisible part of knowledge work. I thought that looking for technology-mediated settings would be one of possible solutions.

But it seems that if I study knowledge sharing in virtual community by analysing on-line discussions I’ll miss 70% of what I want to study. Probably blogs would give a better number, but it will never be 100% – we still mail to other bloggers and hope for face-to-face meetings. So, I have to invent something else :)

Archived version of this entry is available at http://blog.mathemagenic.com/2003/02/06.html#a445; comments are here.

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