Tag: billjohnston

  • Blogging’s A-list – Off with their heads?

    Cross-posted from the Online Community Report. A cry for revolution was heard over the July 4th holiday this week, for the era of the A list bloggers to come to an end. It all started (i think) with Kent Newsome’s pretty hilarious spoof on the Declaration of Independence, the Declaration of Blogging Independence, where he…

  • Autodesk: Community 2.0 Presentation (from 3/05)

    I ran across this yesterday on an old hard drive and thought I would post. community2_0.pdf Daniel Siriste, the manager of AREA, and I gave this presentation to our global marketing team in March 2005 as food for thought in their community-building plans. I’ve removed any proprietary information (of course).

  • Online Community Unconference: Great attendee list and growing

    The Online Community Unconference is coming together. In hindsight, I think I was insane for trying to schedule this so close to the Business Forum… but who needs sleep. The attendee list is avaialable from the registration page: Update: reg list is no longer available, but you can access the conference wiki here: http://www.socialtext.net/ocu2007/ I…

  • Local Community and Radical Transparency

    I think a lot about the concept of community, and community member’s responsibilities back to the “commons”. I live in a small town in Marin called Fairfax. If you have ever driven or ridden from San Francisco out to the Pt Reyes, coast, you have probably passed through. Among the many things that make the…

  • Online Community ROI

    At the recent Online Community Business Forum, Joe Cothrel and I presented on Online Community ROI. Specifically, we proposed the notion that there was enough publicly available data and likely enough data internally that most companies could put together a model that describes the ROI of its’ Online Community Investments. Session 3: Online Community ROI…

  • OC Business Forum Starts today in Sonoma

    We will be adding blog posts, flickr feeds and maybe even a tweet or two throughout the day.

  • I’m quoted in Inc.

    I made this month’s Inc. Magazine, in the “Ask Inc.” section of the magazine. It’s a small quote, but I got a nice plug for the Online Community Report blog. The question to Inc. was about how to increase activity in a company’s online community. The part of my answer that was quoted (more or…