• Online Community Roundtable: 2/28 @ Forrester – a report back

    We had a great group of social media and community strategists at the Online Community Roundtable at Forrester last night. A BIG thanks to Jeremiah Owyang and his colleagues at Forrester for hosting. We had a range of organizations and perspectives represented, from non-profit, to startup to large commercial organizations. In attendance (cribbed from Jeremiah’s…

  • Roundtable at Forrester 2/28: FULL (was -Still have a couple of seats)

    Update: 5:00pm we are full! Awesome group of folks coming, including: Autodesk, Intel, Joyen, WebEx, Cyworld, babycenter, Tesla Motors, Cisco, TechSoup and Symantec. I’ll post a follow up tomorrow with details! — The next Online Community Roundtable is tomorrow (Thursday, 2/28) in Foster City, from 5:30 – 8:30. Jeremiah Owyang and the folks at Forrester…

  • Online Community Unconfernece East: A report back

    (This is cross-posted from the Online Community Report) We had a fantastic OC Unconference East in New York City last Thursday. Over one hundred online community and social media professionals were in attendance, and we had over 40 collaborative sessions. I’ve captured highlights below. I’ve also just opened up the Unconference wiki, so you can…

  • SAP Future Salon: Social Media and Online Communities 2/26

    Forum One friend Mark Finnern at SAP is hosting another F1 friend Sean O’Driscoll tomorrow for a conversation on Social Media and Online communities. Not in the Bay Area? No problem, there is a WebEx session. Details follow. Also, please note that I still have about 5 slots open for the Online Community Roundtable @…

  • OC Unconference East: What to expect during topic selection

    We are just 2 days away from the Online Community Unconference East in NYC. We still have about 5 open seats for those or you in the NYC area. You can register at: http://www.ocue.eventbrite.com There is a really diverse mix of organizations coming, including: BlogHer Inc., Mediabistro, CMP, HP, Gartner, Autodesk, AOL, Texas Instruments, Microsoft,…

  • Marketing & Online Communities Research Report Released

    Our Online Community Research Network (http://www.onlinecommunityresearch.com) initiated the The Marketing & Online Community research study in June of 2007. The study explored the current state of marketing to online communities, from the perspective of both the online community host, as well as from the perspective of the marketer. The research participants included large software companies,…

  • 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…

  • OLPC: Give One / Get One – How about giving a little slack?

    I was a late participant in the One Laptop Per Child “Give One, Get One” program that ran for several weeks leading up to 12/31/07. I was initially miffed at the complete lack of follow up and service coming from the program… the main thing being that it took almost a month to acknowledge my…

  • Next Online Community Roundtable: 2/28 @ Forrester Research

    The next Online Community Roundtable will be held Thursday, 2/28 in Foster City. Jeremiah Owyang and the folks at Forrester will host. If you are interested in attending, please drop me a note. Also, please note that capacity for this event is 25, so first come, first served. I expect this to fill up. The…