Category: Online Community

  • Online Communities and Sustainable Development: Supporting “Green” and Beyond

    This is cross-posted from the Online Community Report. Many organizations are involved with online community building activities, but few consider implications of their online communities on making their business more “green”, or even better, more sustainable. The case can be made that online community building activities support the three key areas of Sustainable Development: From…

  • Who Owns Community?

    This is a presentation I did last fall on “ownership” of community in the enterprise. In the presentation, I talk about hwo the notion of ownership is problematic, and review potential governance scenarios. Update: some folks have complained about the legibility of the text via the slideshare prezo. If you want to download the deck,…

  • Marketing & Online Communities: Final Agenda Set

    We are just over a week away from the Marketing & Online Communities conference, which will be held November 5th at the Tribeca Grand in New York City. The event promises to be an informative and interactive discussion of the intersection of marketing and online communities. We still have a few seats left, so if…

  • Online Communities: Surviving and Thriving in a Downturn (Part 1)

    Note: this is cross posted from the Online Community Report Unfortunately, there has been a lot of very grim economic news of late. The purpose of this post isn’t to give an overview of the current situation, but to highlight possible implications of a slower economy on business, and by extension on online community budgets.…

  • Online Community Events for Fall & Winter 08

    We are just beginning the mad rush of the fall and winter conference season, and I wanted to highlight a few events that I am participating in. Online Community Roundtable: October 2 – San Jose, CA The Online Community Roundtable series is a free netowrking event that I have been hosting since 2005. The Roundtables…

  • Online Community Compensation 2008

    Cross-posted from the Online Community Report: The Online Community Compensation study was initiated in July of 2008 as part of our ongoing research efforts with the Online Community Research Network. The intention of the study was to get a broad look at online community compensation, factors that effect compensation, and the current environment of the…

  • Online Community Governance: The Project Brief

    One of the biggest challenges for those leading the community efforts for large organizations (or really, orgs of most sizes) is ensuring that the hosted community efforts of the organization are appropriate, valuable (both to the org and to the member / customer) and sustainable. First, a little context. I worked at Autodesk for 6…

  • Online Community Research Network: Our Research Agenda

    Cross-posted from the Online Community Report: Over the last 3 years we’ve conducted research with over a 1000 organizations actively engaged with online communties, including Fortune 500 companies, cutting edge community-based startups and some of the world’s leading non-profit organizations. We are currently conducting 6 studies annually, and we typically release the research reports (for…

  • Social Media Blackjack

    I stumbled on this last night. One of the key takeaways from the Community 2.0 conference this year: Thanks to Aaron Strout for shooting / publishing 🙂

  • Online Community Engagement: Recent Research

    Cross-posted from the Online Community Report We conducted the Online Community Marketing, Growth and Engagement research study in May of this year, as part of the continuing efforts of the Online Community Research Network. Our goal was to gain insight into how people are measuring engagement in their online communities and to understand how many…