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Stewart Butterfield is one of the co-founders of Flickr, which is a photo sharing site that has been the subject of a near-absolute love-fest among geeky types for years. It has become one of the most cited examples of Web 2.0. I use it everyday and so do my friends. Flickr does do so, so many things right. Anyway, Stewart was interviewed by CNN recently. (watch Video with different content)
My favorite answer from the interview:
CNN: What's the key to making online communities work?
A lot... Continue Reading
Last night over dinner with Brian Hsi, a fellow online community geek, I was introduced to the concept of Alternate Reality Gaming (ARG). Brian gave me a run down and reminded me that the ILoveBees.com web site to support Halo 2 was an ARG.
Recently, Audi USA created a new ARG around the idea of a missing Audi A3. (more info here) When I first saw the ad weeks ago, I was clueless.
This is really interesting to me. The ARGs are a marketing vehicle, but one that blends online/offline and... Continue Reading
Community Guy Snapcast on Kryptonite
We we're actually "on" kryptonite, but we talked about it during the podcast. Jake McKee, Chris Carfi and me talked about the recent story about Kryptonite- bike locks that can be picked with a bic pen.
More than that, we focused on how the company handled the affair and Jake's recent email interview with the Kryptonite PR person. As always, it was a good time. Enjoy.
Update: I uploaded a picture of yours truly during the snapcast and give you a tour of the scene with flickr notes on the... Continue Reading
Jake at CommunityGuy.com invited Chris Carfi (SocialCustomer.com) and me to participate in a discussion for a podcast. It's about 30 minutes and the main focus was BzzAgent, prompted by Chris' post.
I like the three person format and Jake is interested in doing more, so this could become a regular thing. Maybe one day we can come up with some clever name, perhaps to involve the word "tripod". Big thanks to Jake for the opportunity.
The file is here: Episode 3
The WELL, one of the genuine articles of the online community world is turning 20 years old today.
Some of the original pioneers of the online community world like Howard Rheingold and Cliff Figallo founded the WELL and it has sense become known as one of the original online or virtual communities. In fact, here’s how Howard describes the coining of the term…
"I remember a face to face discussion about the WELL in which I asserted that -- contrary to the public perception that was... Continue Reading
The folks at the Robot Co-op have added some cool new features to 43 Things.
The site has a new "Cities" resource that enables you to see more localized goals. For instance, the most popular goal in Austin Texas is "Go Kayaking".
"Cheers" are a way for people to "...support people and their goals by cheering them on." This means you click a link associated with a goal on a person's profile page. This is interesting to me. I would have thought that cheers might be entry-specific instead of... Continue Reading
Online Vermin and Refactoring Weblogs
There’s a lot going on out there and I wish I had more time to take it all in. I’m about to leave town tomorrow morning for a bachelor party so I’m posting the bare minimum here. A couple of things that caught my eye recently:
Amy Gahran has been posting a series called Handling Porcupines, Trolls, and Other Online Vermin that is about understanding and working with people who have poor online communication skills.
Someone who has a lot of experience in the area above is Tom Coates.... Continue Reading
Social Software Convergence
I got a couple of pointers recently to really cool diagrams showing how groups of technologies and services could be combined to create a socially based system for education, learning, etc.
Check out this diagram from Scott Wilson. He talks more about it here.
Then there is this diagram of a system from CogDogBlog called Ocotillo. More information here.
I'm starting to feel more and more confident that the most valuable systems in the future won't be using individual tools like blogs, wiki,... Continue Reading
Dina Mehta, who lives in Mumbai India, helped set up a great weblog to support relief efforts in the region after the earthquake/tsunami. Since setting up the site, she's wondering if it would have been better to use a wiki instead of a blog.
Because its a community that is open, a community of people wanting to pitch in and make a difference as we watch the horror unfurling in this part of the world. We know the magic of community in coming together for a cause. Perhaps a wiki might have... Continue Reading
Four Steps to Better Online Communications
onPhilanthropy - Four Steps to Better Online Communications
This article is focused on helping nonprofits understand some of the basics of communicating on the web and relates some of the new trends.
Web pros won't learn anything new in the article, but I think it's a good example of an article in simple language that's built for the audience.
The four strategies Newley relates are:
1) have an easy-to-use Web site that caters to their audience, 2) adopt an email strategy, 3) achieve search... Continue Reading