Category: social networks

  • Online Community Unconference – 2/21 in New York City

    We are about a week away from the The Online Community Unconference East. There are a fantastic group of organizations coming, including: allfacebook.com Alliance to Save Energy AOL Business Week Digital Changing The Present Consumers Union Cyworld EchoDitto Family Justice Gartner Grandparents.com IBM Mercy Corps Patricia Seybold Group Showtime Networks Inc Socialtext Texas Instruments TV…

  • How to Develop a Community Strategy

    INTRODUCTION: This post is targeted at folks just getting started with online community activities at their respective organizations. It is written with the brand or product-specific corporate communities in mind, but is somewhat applicable to independent communities and non profit organizations.A few key points to begin with: First, the working assumption here is that most…

  • Web Community Forum: A report back

    Cross-posted from the OC Report. OK, I have to admit, I’m a little tired of talking about Facebook after attending last week’s Web Community Forum in Seattle. The conference focused on community building with Facebook, and we spent two days exploring topics ranging from FAcebook usage basics to best practices in B to B marketing.…

  • New session leads for the Marketing & Online Communities conference

    We are lining up the final speaker slots for the Marketing & Online Community conference. We’ve added three folks this week that I am particularly excited about (ok, I’m also excited by the whole lineup). David Dunne – Edelman I’ve been a fan of Edelman since a former Autodesk colleague introduced me to their Trust…

  • Marketing & Online Communities: An update on speakers and topics (and a kick ass reception)

    Cross-posted from the OC Report: Following closely on the heels of the Online Community Summit, The Marketing & Online Communities conference is less than a month away. The Marketing & Online Communities conference is intended to be an in-depth discussion on the current issues and opportunities in marketing to communities. Marketers and brand managers seem…

  • The Social Graph: A Conversation with Marc Smith from Microsoft Research

    Note: This is cross-posted from the OC Report. You have probably been hearing the term “social graph” a lot in recent weeks. Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook describes the concept in a recent Business Week article: As he (Zuckerberg) describes it, this is a mathematical construct that maps the real-life connections between every human on the…

  • Wow – Jeremiah is going to Forrester

    Just saw a tweet that Jeremiah Owyang is going to Forrester. Wow, big news. Seems like a natural progression for him. He works awfully hard at staying up to date (and updating everyone else) on the social media space. Congratulations Jeremiah!

  • Discussion Groups: The catalyst for developing your community strategy

    If you are currently developing your company’s online community strategy, and are struggling with all of the options available to you, a project to benchmark your discussion group experience is a great place to start. The members of your discussion groups will likely not only contain your most ardent evangelists (and probably most vocal critics),…

  • Social Bookmarkingin plain English

    The folks at Common Craft have put together another great “in plain English” video. This time, it is on Social Bookmarking. Enjoy!

  • Social Networking: It’s still early

    Joi Podgorny had an excellent post yesterday… mostly about LinkedIn bashing, and general snarkiness of late in the debate about Facebook vs. (insert your favorite social network / social media tool here). One point she makes in the post is that it is still *really* early in the game. Those of us using social networking…