Category: Online Community

  • Online Community Unconference: June 18 in Mountain View

    Forum One Networks (Mostly me) is producing the Online Community Unconference. We are on for June 18th at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View. I expect about 250 folks to attend, and Kaliya Hamlin is helping us out with facilitation. Current organizations attending include: Autodesk, Inc. BabyCenter CafePress Cisco Civic Ventures eBay Research Labs…

  • 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 @ 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, 3/12/08 @ 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…

  • 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…

  • Most Communities Don’t Stick?

    Steve Rubel had an interesting post this morning, titled “Historically, Most Online Communities Haven’t Stuck” Only a handful of community sites over the last dozen years have had staying power. If you study them you’ll find moats to protect them from competitors and fickle users. These barriers to entry include peer-to-peer commerce (in the case…

  • 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…