• Current Research: Online Community Marketing, Engagement and Growth

    The Online Community Research Network is kicking off our next research project to study online community marketing, member engagement and growth strategies. The goal of the study is to get direct feedback from community managers and strategists about: most effective ways to market their communities the definition of community member engagement best practices for fostering…

  • Community 2.0 Event / 5-12 thru 14

    I’ll be in Vegas next Monday, 5/12 thru Wednesday 5/14 at the Community 2.0 conference. I’m on a panel with Chris Messina and Dawn Foster (Jive) discussing online reputation. Will you be there? If so, give me a shout out: bjohnston@forumone.com Viva!

  • Online Community Unconference 2008 – W00T!

    Mobile post sent by redplasticmonkey using Utterz.  Replies.

  • Video Utter: Unconference 08

    Experimenting with video Utterz. What do you think? I’d love to do more video…

  • Mattel – Still batting .000

    My posts from last summer about the Mattel recall crisis have been getting a lot of traffic lately, so I thought I would post an update. We followed Mattel’s guidance on requesting shippers for a replacement (or in certain cases, refund) in August of last year. The follow up from Mattel to date? Nothing. Nada.…

  • 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…

  • LoudTwitter

    I just disabled LoudTwitter autoposting. I thought it would be interesting to publish a daily digest of tweets, but after seeing it for a week or so, it just looked obnoxious… especially when the treats were parts of conversations, as opposed to just thoughts or observations.

  • Tweets for Today

    08:16 @jowyang you should do a book club, like Oprah. I’m serious (except for the Oprah part) #

  • Tweets for Today

    15:51 @leolaporte How about another Live TWiT at Noonans? # 15:54 @sashapeterson dude – nice to see you. One word… CABO! # 20:16 @mdfw "mauntie"? # 21:20 @factoryjoe thanks for the Radiohead! # 21:22 rt: factoryjoe Excellent: Radiohead Live at the BBC from April 2008: tinyurl.com/6rpzkg #