Category: Online Community Report

  • Current Research: Online Community Marketing, Engagement and Growth

    The Online Community Research Network is kicking off our next research project to study online community marketing, member engagement and growth strategies. The goal of the study is to get direct feedback from community managers and strategists about: most effective ways to market their communities the definition of community member engagement best practices for fostering…

  • Liveblogging and the back channel move to Twitter

    Cross-posted from the Online Community Report. One of the more interesting things that happened at the Online Community Business Forum last week didn’t happen during a particular session, but rather, happened to several participants as the sessions of the first day went on. This is a real shift in behavior for these particular participants, as…

  • Online Community Business Forum: Initial Report Back

    Cross-posted from the Online Community Report. First, apologies for the radio silence on the blog, folks. The Online Community Business Forum was a huge success, but also a massive undertaking, and I took a couple of days to unplug from the socialmediosphere. The good news? There is a ton of great content about the event…

  • Online Community ROI: Models and Reporting – Research Study Posted

    Research is a large part of the activities that I and Forum One Networks engages in. The Online Community Research Network studies and publishes 6 times a year on topics that matter to those responsible for guiding online community and social media activities in their organization. The Online Community ROI Models and Reporting research study…

  • Mobile Communities Unconference: Wiki now public

    I just made the wiki for the Mobile Communities Unconference live. http://www.socialtext.net/mcu2008 Some folks are still in the process of uploading their session notes. In particular, I thought the session about Mobile Social UX Design was particularly good: http://www.socialtext.net/mcu2008/index.cgi?mobile_user_experience_design Also, you can see a photostream from the event here: http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=mcu2008&w=all

  • Notes from the Online Community Roundtable, 3/12/08 @ Microsoft

    Cross-posted from the Online Community Report. We had a fantastic group of people at the Online Community Roundtable Wednesday (3/12) evening on Microsoft campus in Redmond. Bob Rebholz of the Windows Live team was our host, and we scored space in the MS conference center (which rivals SAP Labs as the nicest space we have…

  • Notes from the Online Community Roundtable, 3/12 @ Microsoft

    Cross-posted from the Online Community Report. We had a fantastic group of people at the Online Community Roundtable Wednesday (3/12) evening on Microsoft campus in Redmond. Bob Rebholz of the Windows Live team was our host, and we scored space in the MS conference center (which rivals SAP Labs as the nicest space we have…

  • Busy March and April: events I am hosting / attending

    Lot’s of good online community events coming up, including: Online Community Roundtable: Seattle We will be on campus at Microsoft the evening of 3/12. Want to attend? Send me an email. Mobile Communities Unconference: 3/20 in Palo Alto Forum One Network’s next Unconference focuses on the possibilities (and challenges) of online community and social media…

  • Roundtable at Forrester 2/28: FULL (was -Still have a couple of seats)

    Update: 5:00pm we are full! Awesome group of folks coming, including: Autodesk, Intel, Joyen, WebEx, Cyworld, babycenter, Tesla Motors, Cisco, TechSoup and Symantec. I’ll post a follow up tomorrow with details! — The next Online Community Roundtable is tomorrow (Thursday, 2/28) in Foster City, from 5:30 – 8:30. Jeremiah Owyang and the folks at Forrester…