The document outlines different components of the Spidergram community including meetings, projects, access to expertise, relationships, context, community cultivation, individual participation, content publishing, and open-ended conversations. Meetings include in-person and online gatherings, agenda building, and meeting spaces. Projects involve interrelated tasks and outcomes done through collaboration. Access to expertise allows learning from experienced practitioners. Relationships are foundational for making meaningful connections. Context discusses what is kept internally and shared externally. Community cultivation focuses on recruiting, orienting, and supporting members. Individual participation enables crafting one's own experience. Content publishing captures and shares what the community learns. Open-ended conversations continue over time without specific goals.

1. SPIDERGRAM
2012 Spring Workshop, Innovation - What's on Your Horizon?
MEETINGS
PROJECTS
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OPEN ENDED
CONVERSA-
TIONS 4
3
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ACCESS TO
EXPERTISE
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CONTENT
PUBLISHING
RELATIONSHIPS
INDIVIDUAL
PARTICIPATION
CONTEXT
COMMUNITY
CULTIVATION
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2. Scheduling: using tools like doodle or mtg wizard
or using institutional calendaring tools like
Entourage or Outlook.
MEETINGS
In person or online gatherings with an agenda
Agenda building: tools like wiki to create, share or
distribute using dropbox or evernote, blog, etc...
i.e monthly topic calls Meeting space: collaborate like tools to capture
knowledge nad communicating that act
Multi-institutional collaboration on projects that are
relevant to all of our institutions.
PROJECTS
Interrelated tasks with specific
e.g faculty development strategies: tools, leaning
designs, ed tech related research projects
outcomes or products 1. Identify project need
i.e identifying a new practice and refining it 2. Find Etug partners
3. Share resources to get project done.
Facilitating the development of interest groups. So
self organized people with same interest can
come together.
Connecting with subject experts.
ACCESS TO EXPERTISE
Learning from experienced practitioners
Connecting to outside expertise, e.g presenters for
an interest group.
i.e access to subject matter experts Facilitation knowledge sharing, so expertise
is exchanged through: Arum, etc...
Profiles with info about member expertise, to make
experts visible.
Dynamic come and go nature. Foundation for
it all. Self-defined outcomes of relationships
you build.
RELATIONSHIPS
Getting to know each other
Historical strength of Etug, interpersonal
and organizational.
i.e annual potluck dinner Multilevel opportunities, open doors,
meaningful connection.
Who is Etug for?
CONTEXT
Private, internally focused or serving
How do we participate in Etug beyond
the workshops?
an organization, or the wider world What is the mandate of Etug? Internal
i.e what is kept within the community, and External?
what is shared with the wider world
Is Etug a community of individuals or of
representitives?

3. An important node in our networks.
Institutional support for participation.
Requirement (incentive) to share what you're
COMMUNITY
doing (active participant).
Need to create a sense of ownership - to feel you
CULTIVATION
Recruiting, orienting and supporting
are a member.
Tools: Twitter (Facebook like?), Collaborate (space
members, growing the community for real time), Linkedin (professional group). Why or
i.e who made sure the new person why not?
was invited in and met others
Meetings are important for community cultivation.
So many places to fo - it would need to be
compelling. Time is an issue. Someone to create
liaisons/relationships?
Projects/events may be an important way to
cultivate community.
Faculty, many of them don't see themselves as
eTech people.
Make sure there are always means to push and
INDIVIDUAL pull. Different members need different things.
PARTICIPATION
Keep building activities, hopefully people that are
interested get involved.
Enabling members to craft their own Great to have sessions/workshops recorded and
experience of the community available afterwards allow people to access when
i.e access material when and how you want it they can.
Communication within institutions is difficult. Hard
to get members.
Find different ways to get people in, need to find
other pathways.
CONTENT PUBLISHING
A focus on capturing and publishing what
Publish: copyright issues + relevence (after the
meeting).
the community learns and knows Capture: online seminars, workshops, meetings.
i.e Newsletter, publishing an article, etc...
SCoPE is a good model - can we use for open
ended conversations?
International audience/participants? - broader
base to draw from.
Tools need to be 'low barrier' (tools for community
OPEN ENDED discussion e.x Skype?).
CONVERSATIONS
Picking up on themes from Twitter, workshops, etc...
and bringing people together online.
Conversations that continue to rise and fall Informality important - 'pub night' once a month?
over time without a specific goal Arranged by people in each locale.
i.e Listserv or Webforum, Twitter, etc...
Listserv may be useful.
Theme based conversations - you can choose
what interests you.