Clue Unit Podcast #20: A Conversation with Derek Powazek

By leelefever on June 26, 2007 - 11:28am.

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The Clue Unit podcast is a (mostly) weekly discussion of news and trends related to online communities in the business context with Jake McKee, Lee LeFever and Christopher Carfi.

This week we were joined by Derek Powazek, someone that we've talked about a number of times and took this chance to talk with him. We focused on Community As Business - Our current focus.

Clue Unit #20: A Conversation with Derek Powazek - June 25, 2007

Your Community is a Party Waiting to Happen

By leelefever on May 21, 2007 - 4:53pm.

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You can find the slides for this talk here.

Cory Doctorow on Managing Hostile Jerks in Your Online Community

By leelefever on May 15, 2007 - 11:54am.

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In this Information Week article , Cory Doctorow, author and co-editor of Boing Boing takes a look at how to deal with trolls - people that are toxic to communities due to their aggressiveness and persistent poor behavior.

True to form, Cory uses a geeky radiological metaphor to explain the tactics...

Derek Powazek Says Goodbye to JPG Magazine

By leelefever on May 15, 2007 - 11:25am.

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Wow, interesting things from community people are just rolling off the presses lately. Derek Powazek is leaving JPG Magazine and 8020 Publishing (the companies he founded) - due to a disagreement with the partners. It's so sad to see someone work so hard and be so passionate about a community project only to see it controlled by someone else. His passion made it successful, just like Matt Haughey at MetaFilter.

Matt Haughey of MetaFilter on Managing Community

By leelefever on May 15, 2007 - 8:28am.

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Matt Haughey knows community. He is the founder of MetaFilter, a very popular community site that is based on enabling members to blog about stories that are important to them. It's a real success story in the community world and I consider Matt one of it's real innovators.

He recently started a new blog call fortuito.us where he is hoping to post an article a week on his experiences. His most recent post is Some Community Tips for 2007, which serves as an interesting review of the things he feels are important in making MetaFilter successful. I encourage you to go read the whole post.

The major points are:

Digg Users Revolt, Founders Throw Up Their Hands

By leelefever on May 2, 2007 - 9:25am.

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Wow. Josh pointed me to some of the rather strange goings on at Digg - a site where members control the headlines by promoting their favorite news stories. Apparently the site has been a hub for sharing the encryption code that can be used to access HD/DVDs. Digg received a cease and desist letter and tried to remove the offending links from Digg at the risk of being sued.

From a post by Jay Adelson:

More on 43 Things "Neighborhood Watch"

By leelefever on April 18, 2007 - 6:39pm.

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A little while back, I wrote about a brand new feature from the Robots who created the online community site 43 Things . The feature is "neighborhood watch" and it enables "community members in good standing" to contribute to fighting the site's growing spam problem.

Just to day Daniel Spils posted a follow up describing how it has worked so far.

2 Friends, Tag Drafting and Web 2.0 Personalization

By leelefever on April 8, 2007 - 12:57pm.

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I've been inspired and impressed by a couple of my local Seattle friends who have, over the last year, become some of my favorite online community-focused bloggers.

Trust and the Currencies of Community

By leelefever on April 8, 2007 - 12:01pm.

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James Sherrett at WorkIndustries wrote a thoughtful email in response the my post on online community currency...

My $0.02 is that to talk about communities and currencies is to mix metaphors. Currencies are more applicable to markets and networks than communities. Communities thrive on trust, which is a human element that I don't think we'll ever be able to replicate in a scalable system.

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My Interview for the Online Community Report

By leelefever on April 4, 2007 - 4:40pm.

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I was honored recently to be asked for an interview for the Online Community Report, a newsletter-turned-blog to which I've described for years. Bill Johnston is the editor and his questions covered current community trends, examples of how corporations are using communities, areas of growth and what every CEO should know about communities.

Link: OC Expert interview: Lee LeFever, Common Craft