Category: Online Business

  • Online Community Report: 2 great interviews

    Two interviews I recently conducted for the Online Community Report: Shawn Morton from TechRepulic / Cnet In addition to his “day job” as Product Manager for TechRepublic, Shawn is also behind Profilactic.com. Steve Nelson from Clear Ink Steve has a great point of view on the intersection of marketing and online community, and keen insite…

  • Social Networking: Too Much of a Good Thing?

    Cross-posted from the OC Report: A recent article in InformationWeek asks “Has Social Networking Gone Too Far?” The article primarily focuses on the recently launched redesign of the USA Today web site. An overview article from the USA Today touts many participatory features, like content rating, multiple article sources, discussion groups and uploading photos. From…

  • Cisco: Now it’s Tribe

    Cross-posted from the OC Report: Is this the beginning of the inevitable consolidation that seems to be coming in the online community space? First it was Five Apart, a community platform company. Yesterday Cisco announced it was buying Tribe. Thanks to Mukund for the heads up. From TechCrunch: “The hope is to use the two…

  • Web 2.0 Panel Podcast from September

    This is a little dated, but I thought I would post. I was on a panel discussing the implications of Web 2.0 back in September, hosted by SofTECH in Marin. Dana Welch helped put the panel together, and Paul Calento of InfoWorld moderated. Bryann Quinn from SpyMedia, and Bob Rebholz from Microsoft were on the…

  • Wikipedia, Wikia & Wales

    Sounds like a lawfirm, eh? The latest Biz 2.0 has an excellent article about Wikipedia, Wales new , for profit venture Wikia, and provides a good bit of insight into Wales himself. One of the articles best quotes comes from Gil Penchia, CEO of Wikia, commenting on the company’s mission: “We are a for-profit company,…

  • Community 2.0: My Sessions

    It’s official, the community 2.0 conference agenda has been confirmed. http://community2-0con.com/?page_id=4 My sessions are: Monday, March 12, 2007 ~ 1:45 – 2:30pm (I. THEORY & STRATEGY) Understanding the Basic Strategies for Business Communities Speakers: Bill Johnston, Forum One Anders Nancke-Kroch, Nokia Sonali Shah, Univ. of Illinois In this session we will review the basic strategies…

  • CommunityNext: A report back

    Cross-posted from the Online Community Report blog: I attended the CommunityNext conference at Stanford yesterday, hosted by the kinetic Noah Kagan. My only disappointment was that I never found out if Noah actually does still live with his Mother. And the fact that there was no wifi. You can see a copy of the day’s…

  • Cisco: Serious about this Human Network thing

    Mukund at the Best engaging Communities blog called this morning with news that Cisco has acquired is in the process of aquiring Five Apart. I guess they are serious about this “Human network thing. More here. And the official cisco press release.

  • Cole’s “Tracking Online Community Participation” prezo published

    From the Brand Summit. Jeff Cole’s presentation on tracking online community participation. A few interesting slides, especially the 3 labeled “life of a 12-24″,” 25 – 54″, and” 55+”. Nothing really shocking here… all the kidee-loos (12-24) will be connected to and use the net exclusively on their mobiles, and won’t read newspapers (still don’t…

  • Webinar: Measuring the Success of Online Communities

    I’m part of the following webinar discussion. Please check it out: Webinar: Measuring the Success of Online Communities February 13, 2007 – 11am (PT) / 2pm (ET) How do you know if your existing community is adding value and being successful? How do you build a business case for launching a new community?Some success measures…