• Online Community Business Forum: Final Agenda Set

    We are just a few days away from the Online Community Business Forum in Santa Fe, and the final agenda is in place. You will find the speaker and topic lineup below. In addition to the awesome lineup of speakers, we are planning a 1/2 day of Open Space on Tuesday afternoon. We will be…

  • 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

  • Extending you community via Mobile session

    Extending you community via Mobile session Originally uploaded by redplasticmonkey Mobile Communities Unconference / 2nd session

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…