Category: Online Community

  • RSS: Too geeky for too long

    Lee and Sachi LeFever from CommomCraft put together this hilarious and educational video on RSS. In my opinion, great format! Enjoy: Click To Play

  • Bloggers Code of Conduct

    Cross-posted from the OC Report: Tim O’Reilly has called for and drafted a Bloggers code of conduct, mostly in response to the over-the-top harassment that Kathy Sierra received a few weeks ago. From the O’Reilly Radar blog: We celebrate the blogosphere because it embraces frank and open conversation. But frankness does not have to mean…

  • Just becuase you can…

    I’m struggling with the concept of “always on” personal video feeds, a la Justin TV. I thought it was interesting when I first heard about Justin. Then I saw that Robert Scoble and Jerimiah Owyang will be streaming live from Web 2.0 Expo. My feelings are mixed. My initial “oh, cool” reaction has faded a…

  • Blogging & Design: Jesse breaks it down

    Jesse Thomas from Ogilvy breaks down his POV blogs in general, and blog design specifically. My takeaway after viewing: Why do we have SO many ugly babies out there? I think the availability of reaymade tools and hosted solutions has led to many of us who should know better (me included) accepting the “common” in…

  • Where does the community team belong in a commercial organization?

    Cross-posted from the OC Report: Where does the community team belong in a commercial organization? This topic came up at our recent Online Community Roundtable and we ran out of time before we could properly discuss, so I thought I would queue up the discussion here. The responsibility for Online Community in many organizations is…

  • Great stuff from the latest OC Report Newsletter

    You aren’t subscribed? Shame on you! Go here: http://www.onlinecommunityreport.com/ OK, here’s the good stuff. John Hagel’s POV on Community 2.0 In this eloquent and poignant post, John builds upon his keynote at c2.o to offer one of the most relevant perspectives on the current state of online communities, and the “Bottom Line Opportunity”. OC Expert…

  • Strategy Anxiety

    I’ve heard a lot of discussion around creating formal online community strategies in the last 6 months. I’ve also heard of (and experienced) community efforts that are stalled or even abandoned because of lack of a formal, codified strategy. Personally, I think this is just silly. Think about it: What if you had to come…

  • Online Community Roundtable #8

    We had another successful Online Community Roundtable event in Mountain View last night. George Jaquette from Intuit was good enough to host. Representatives from several Bay Area companies attended, including Autodesk, Apple, Salesforce.com, Symantec, SAP, Dwell Magazine and the Charles and Helen Schwab Foundation. The Online Community Roundtable is an opportunity for managers of the…

  • What’s up with Tivo?

    Disclaimer: I love my Tivo, like everyone else. What’s up with Tivo? Why is it: So hard to connect with other Tivo users and share content? So hard to transfer content between Tivo and my pc and macs? So hard to download premium content, like movies, to my Tivo ( i know it’s in the…

  • Online Community Basics: Start with Research – The 3 questions to ask

    Cross-posted from the OC Report. As a follow up to all the recent questions I’ve been getting about basic online community strategy, I’ve decided to write a series on online community basics. First up is one of my favorite topics: research! Start With Research: The 3 questions to ask. Q1. What does your current community…