Category: Online Business

  • Marketing & Online Communities: An update on speakers and topics (and a kick ass reception)

    Cross-posted from the OC Report: Following closely on the heels of the Online Community Summit, The Marketing & Online Communities conference is less than a month away. The Marketing & Online Communities conference is intended to be an in-depth discussion on the current issues and opportunities in marketing to communities. Marketers and brand managers seem…

  • 5 Questions Webinar: My content, transcript and archive

    I had the pleasure of participating in a webinar yesterday with George Jaquette of Intuit and Aaron Strout of Shared Insights. Aaron just posted the webinar archive and transcript on the Wearesmarter.com site. Additionally, I wanted to post my notes from the event, which more or less sum up what I said (or meant to…

  • The Social Graph: A Conversation with Marc Smith from Microsoft Research

    Note: This is cross-posted from the OC Report. You have probably been hearing the term “social graph” a lot in recent weeks. Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook describes the concept in a recent Business Week article: As he (Zuckerberg) describes it, this is a mathematical construct that maps the real-life connections between every human on the…

  • Interview with Joi Podgorny on the OC Report

    If you haven’t, check out the interview I did with Joi on the Online Community Report. She obviously did the hard part… providing great content! This month’s Online Community Expert interview is with Joi Podgorny of Ludorum, Inc. Joi’s area of expertise is the post-Facebook crowd, Tweens and Children. Joi’s Bio: Joi has worked the…

  • Wow – Jeremiah is going to Forrester

    Just saw a tweet that Jeremiah Owyang is going to Forrester. Wow, big news. Seems like a natural progression for him. He works awfully hard at staying up to date (and updating everyone else) on the social media space. Congratulations Jeremiah!

  • Next Online Community Roundtable: 8/22 @ SAP

    If you are in the Bay Area, and are actively working with online communities, this event might be of interest to you.  It’s invitation-based, so please drop me an email if you are interested. — The Roundtables have been a regular, but intentionally “under the radar” gathering since July of 2005. Thats longer than BarCamp…

  • Discussion Groups: The catalyst for developing your community strategy

    If you are currently developing your company’s online community strategy, and are struggling with all of the options available to you, a project to benchmark your discussion group experience is a great place to start. The members of your discussion groups will likely not only contain your most ardent evangelists (and probably most vocal critics),…

  • Social Networking: It’s still early

    Joi Podgorny had an excellent post yesterday… mostly about LinkedIn bashing, and general snarkiness of late in the debate about Facebook vs. (insert your favorite social network / social media tool here). One point she makes in the post is that it is still *really* early in the game. Those of us using social networking…

  • Online Community Roundtable: June 12 in SF

    As many of you know, I run a semi formal and somewhat-invitation-based networking group for online community pros with George Jaquette from Intuit. We try to get together bi-monthly, alternating between the south bay and SF. A little more information: The intention of the events is to provide an open and safe environment for community…

  • Local Community and Radical Transparency

    I think a lot about the concept of community, and community member’s responsibilities back to the “commons”. I live in a small town in Marin called Fairfax. If you have ever driven or ridden from San Francisco out to the Pt Reyes, coast, you have probably passed through. Among the many things that make the…