Category: Online Community
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The Future of Online Communities – Insights from the Online Community Unconference 2025
The Online Community Unconference 2025 made one thing clear: the need for meaningful connection has never been greater, but the challenges of fostering it have never been more complex. This post explores the key insights from the event—where community leadership is evolving, where it’s stuck, and what we must do next.
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Online Community Unconference 2025
The Online Community Unconference (OCU) is returning to San Francisco on January 8th. Join me, Carrie Melissa Jones, and Susan Tenby for a full day of in-person collaboration with 100 experienced and engaged community leaders. At the Online Community Unconference you will: All while having a great time experiencing the in-person community of community leaders.…
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Reasons to be Optimistic About the Future of Community Practice
The community “industry” is a mess. Good thing we are pretty good at community.
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Community Ecosystems – Slides from the 1/23/23 #CMAD Event in Silicon Valley
It was great to be back in person at the #CMAD Meetup in Silicon Valley. You can check out the slides from my presentation here:
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Metaverse: Season 3 of the Cohere Podcast
During Season 2 of the Cohere podcast, Dr. Lauren Vargas and I examined the role networks play in our lives – from the obvious to the subtle. In Season 3, Lauren and I are exploring the topic dominating the discussion of our collective digital future: the Metaverse. Our intention is to have a discussion will…
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Promoting & Sustaining the Value of Community Across the Organization (Community Value Part 4)
Note: this is the fourth and final post in a series about community value. If you missed “A Perspective on Community Value“, “Understanding the Community Opportunity“, or “Developing Community Strategy, Goals & Measurements“ I’d recommend starting there. In many organizations, community’s territory is often limited to an ill-defined middle ground between support and marketing functions. This…
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METAVERSE METAVERSE METAVERSE (plus a great cyberpunk reading list)
We’ve been hearing a lot about the “Metaverse” in the last few months, and the conversation has reached somewhat of a fever pitch this week with Facebook announcing an upcoming rebrand to position the company as a “metaverse company”. The concept of a fully-immersive digital reality isn’t new. This has been a staple of speculative…
Bill Johnston 