Category: Online Community

  • OCU 2007 – Mentioned in b2.0 Article

    Where to meet the next Steve Jobs http://money.cnn.com/2007/06/08/magazines/business2/unconferences.biz2/ Mostly got the details correct (speed geeking was only 1 session, after lunch). As organizer, it would have been nice to have been interviewed for this, but I’m glad Kaliya got exposure.

  • Online Community Unconference: Creation of Schedule Grid

    The Online Community Unconference was based on the principals of Open Space Technology, which essentially puts the days agenda and content in the hands of the attendees. One of the most amazing things about the Unconference was seeing the blank session grid being created the night before, and them filling up with interesting content in…

  • What do you buy for an Unconference?

    I had to do shopping today for the Unconference, and I got some strange looks at Staples, so I thought I would share my list 🙂 Shopping List: (2) Rolls of paper.. 36″ (three feet ones are better) but often the stationary store only sells 24″ and that is ok.  In the rare case you…

  • Online Influencers: The new SEO (a.k.a snake oil)?

    I just stumbled across this Information Week article on Online Influencers. (link is to the less-sucky print view. My God guys, could you have more obnoxious ads?) The article provides a decent overview of the pros and cons of influencer programs… it stirkes me that some marketers quoted in the story arelooking for short cuts…

  • Things that kill community – Management loses interest

    I’m very excited by the renewed interest in building customer communities online. My biggest concern is that businesses are NOT thinking through how to make their investments in, and engagements with, their communities sustainable. One of the biggest “killers” of community initiatives that I have seen is when a regime change comes in senior management,…

  • Online Community Roundtable: June 12 in SF

    As many of you know, I run a semi formal and somewhat-invitation-based networking group for online community pros with George Jaquette from Intuit. We try to get together bi-monthly, alternating between the south bay and SF. A little more information: The intention of the events is to provide an open and safe environment for community…

  • Online Community Unconference: Great attendee list and growing

    The Online Community Unconference is coming together. In hindsight, I think I was insane for trying to schedule this so close to the Business Forum… but who needs sleep. The attendee list is avaialable from the registration page: Update: reg list is no longer available, but you can access the conference wiki here: http://www.socialtext.net/ocu2007/ I…

  • Online Community ROI

    At the recent Online Community Business Forum, Joe Cothrel and I presented on Online Community ROI. Specifically, we proposed the notion that there was enough publicly available data and likely enough data internally that most companies could put together a model that describes the ROI of its’ Online Community Investments. Session 3: Online Community ROI…

  • Rock on Kevin: Digg sticks to its values

    Digg This: 09-f9-11-02-9d-74-e3-5b-d8-41-56-c5-63-56-88-c0 In response to community uproar over censoring stories about the hd-dvd crack: “But now, after seeing hundreds of stories and reading thousands of comments, you’ve made it clear. You’d rather see Digg go down fighting than bow down to a bigger company. We hear you, and effective immediately we won’t delete stories…

  • I know we are in a bubble again

    I have predicted that when people start talking on their mobiles while peeing again, we would be in another bubble. As of 3:30 pm yesterday, we are officially in another bubble. ps: I was not the guilty party. pss: what’s up with that people?