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  • Online Community Unconference East: Walk Through

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  • Twitter Killer: Must-have Features

    Per Dave Winer, and other sources around the Internets, we hear the Google is going to announce a “twitter killer” tomorrow. Dave ruminates about his criteria for a twitter-killer, and I have added a few of my own suggestions to the list. Dave Winer’s list of “must have” features for a twitter-killer: http://www.scripting.com/stories/2010/02/08/musthaveFeaturesForTwitter.html So here’s…

  • Online Community Unconference East: Moving Forward, Together

    We are less than 48 hours from the Online Community Unconference East (yeah!). This is the third year we’ve run the Online Community Unconference in New York, and we’ve had great events both years. On think I wanted to be a bit more mindful of for this year’s Unconference was to really be mindful of…

  • What to expect at the Online Community Unconference East

    The Online Community Unconference East will be held February 10th in New York City. To learn more about the event, or to register, go here: http://ocue2010.eventbrite.com/ . So, how does this Unconference thing work? The premise of our Unconference series is that the best source of information on online communities and social media is the…

  • Back to Basics: Want to Know What Your Community Members Need? Just Ask.

    This post is part of an ongoing series about developing an online community strategy. As a reminder, all posts will be tagged #ocb2b In my last post, “The Strategy Team & Goal Definition” I discussed the importance of identifying internal stakeholders for a community, getting the stakeholders engaged, and the process of defining initial goals…

  • *Rough* Notes from the Online Community Roundtable: 1/11 at Salon.com / The WELL

    <img src=”http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4062/4275223112_c8cdaf25d1.jpg&#8221; align=”left” alt=”” /> We started the 2010 series of Online Community Roundtables last Monday, January 11th in San Francisco at the offices of Salon.com / The WELL. Salon hosted ~ 30 of us (THANK YOU!), and we had 3 hours of fantastic conversation about our collective experiences in 2009, and most importantly, where we…

  • The tech / social media news cycle: are we cats chasing laser pointers?

    Photo attribution: http://www.flickr.com/photos/heypaul/1832151/ I often feel like the tech / social media news cycle is a bit like watching cats chase a laser pointer around the room. On the one hand, I feel like I am in a flow of rich information. One the other hand, I feel like a large amount of data I…

  • Announcing – Back to Basics: Developing an Online Community Strategy

      The topic of online community strategy is one of the things that occupies a large chunk of my mental cycles. I’ve written about a pretty basic process and framework a few times over the years, and I think the baseline concepts have held up well. You can read a couple of relatively recent posts…

  • The Real-Time Web: A Short Reading List

    A recent series of articles from ReadWriteWeb has spawned discussion here at Forum One of what impact the “real-time web” will have on online communities. Those conversations continue, but I wanted to share our short list of selected readings on the topic from the last 12 months. Ken Fromm wrote the series of articles about…

  • Social Media Strategy: Getting Beyond the Hype

    I gave this presentation at the Geneva Web Meetup on May 1st. The net of the presentation is that I encourage the use of a comprehensive strategy as a lens to evaluate opportunities for engagement in the social media ecosystem.