Tag: Online Community

  • 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…

  • 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 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…

  • 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…

  • Online Community Expert Interviews: The Best of 2007

    I just put together a short list of our best interviews from the Online Community Report for 2007. We had a great group of Community experts sharing their experiences, and I think you will agree that the content is worth a second look. Shawn Morton, CNET “The big lesson … was to follow the needs…

  • Starting the New Year Off Right: 5 Questions to Ask Yourself About Your Community

    This is cross-posted from the OC Report. In the spirit of the new year, I wanted to encourage community managers, strategists and teams to do a bit of self-reflection on the old (2007) and planning for the new (2008). The following are five key questions you and your team might explore in the coming weeks.…

  • Online Community Ideas – best of 2007

    I posted the following content in the Online Community Report newsletter this morning, but I wanted to blog this as well. The Big Ideas of 2007 The following are, to my eyes, the “big ideas” that emerged in 2007. I feel these ideas set the stage for the meaningful activity that will play out in…

  • Online Community Indentity and Reputation

    Earlier this week, I published the “Identity, Reputation and Ranking” research study to members of our Online Community Research Network. The study was designed to discover best practices for content rating and ranking, and to establish a baseline of current practice for supporting member identity and reputation. I inititated the study in early November, and…