Online Community as Party

By leelefever on June 17, 2007 - 8:08pm.

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A while back I posted an entry called Your Community is a Party Waiting to Happen that outlined a number of common sense ways that hosting a party is like managing an online community. I really believe the metaphor is useful and I've developed a talk on the subject.

Here are the slides from the talk...

Facebook, Addiction and the New News

By leelefever on June 8, 2007 - 8:26am.

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• news
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• socialnetworking
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Over the past 3 weeks or so, I've fallen for Facebook. It has continually impressed me with it's innovation, social design and growing dominance of its space. Facebook does a lot of things well, but the one thing that impresses me most is how it exposes the actions of my friends on the site. I can see it when Kris Krug joins a group or Duncan Rawlinson updates Twitter . It brings the online and public world of my friends closer to me.

Beyond Message Boards - Ideas for the New Communities

By leelefever on May 8, 2007 - 9:02am.

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• features
• ourwork
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It wasn't too long ago that online communities had a killer app - it was the message board. It was the Honeymooners of early television. When choice was limited, popularity grew around the best options of the time. Indeed, the friendly message board has been a bedrock of online community interaction - one of the original articles. These days however, the message board has competition in the effort for your community's attention.

Visible Technologies is Playing with Fire

By leelefever on April 17, 2007 - 8:51pm.

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• community
• seattle
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Sean reminded me about a local Seattle company called Visible Technologies that enables organizations to listen and respond to the commentary that is occurring across blogs, social networks and communities.

Online Vermin and Refactoring Weblogs

By leelefever on February 3, 2005 - 7:06pm.

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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.

Social Software Convergence

By leelefever on January 28, 2005 - 9:45am.

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• drupal
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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.