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Map of Online Communities

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Gardner
Brian
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Jenny
Nancy
Larry
James
Stephen
Stephen again. He deserves a few more balloons here.
Map of Online Communities by D'Arcy Norman.
a map of my loosely defined online community of practice, generated by ToughGraph.com. It's not exactly exhaustive, but for an automagically generated map, it's pretty cool to see the links between clusters of communities. Teachers are sort of in the upper right. Edtech-types loosely in the middle. etc... 
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JeremyOK  Pro User  says:

Very cool representation...it has a less techie feel than some network maps. Nicer font, colour, varied shapes...
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ppival  Pro User  says:

TouchGraph.com, not TouchMap - the latter is something else entirely... And how'd you get that run - I don't see anything on their site...
Posted 32 months ago. ( permalink )

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D'Arcy Norman  Pro User  says:

Ah. Good catch. Brain thinking one thing, fingers stumbling out another... Try this link narcissistically starting with my blog url...
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BryanAlexander  Pro User  says:

You should write up a how-to!
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D'Arcy Norman  Pro User  says:

OK, Bryan. Here goes...

1. Go to touchgraph.com
2. Select the "TouchGraph Google" link (or, skip the first 2 steps and just click here).
3. Enter a url (just a domain name, I believe, no http or the like) or keyword(s) to map.
4. Twiddle the sliders, open nodes to view more, etc... Try dragging stuff around to watch the fun auto-reposition logic at play...
5. Take a screenshot.
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BryanAlexander  Pro User  says:

Well, that's certainly easy. Thanks!
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West Sussex Youth Service  Pro User  says:

Thanks for this, it's fascinating, have posted about it here ukyouthblog.wordpress.com
Posted 16 months ago. ( permalink )

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rudynetpop says:

Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Project Netpop, and we'd love to have this added to the group!
Posted 12 months ago. ( permalink )

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