Community (12)
- Creating Passionate Users: How to Build a User Community, Part 1
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Most user communities take a typical path--the newbies ask questions, and a select group of more advanced users answer them. But that's a slow path to building the community, and it leaves a huge gaping hole in the middle where most users drop out. If we want to keep beginning and intermediate users more engaged (and increase the pool of question answerers)
Tags: collaboration, community, culture, social, article - view - bharath - 11/18/2009 - 00:58 - - -
- Creating Passionate Users: Building a successful online community
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They did it by being passionately, single-mindedly, ferociously committed to enforcing one rule: "Be Friendly."
Tags: community, internet, online, social, web20, article - view - bharath - 11/18/2009 - 00:58 - - -
- Shirky: A Group Is Its Own Worst Enemy
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Good morning, everybody. I want to talk this morning about social software ...there's a surprise. I want to talk about a pattern I've seen over and over again in social software that supports large and long-lived groups. And that pattern is the pattern described in the title of this talk: "A Group Is Its Own Worst Enemy."
Tags: community, internet, social, socialsoftware, article - view - bharath - 11/18/2009 - 00:57 - - -
- Creating Passionate Users: Ultra-fast release cycles and the new plane
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I just came back from dinner with my daughter Skyler (that's her in the picture). She's an extremely passionate myspace user. In her words, "If you're not on myspace, you don't exist." So I asked what made myspace so compelling... why didn't she fall in love with LiveJournal?
Tags: community, design, development, myspace, web20, article - view - bharath - 11/18/2009 - 00:53 - - -
- How To Build Your Online Community –The Mateo Gutierrez Interview
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If your business has a community then it has an army of supporters who will help you grow the company.
I asked Mateo Gutierrez to teach us how to build online communities because he's had a decade of community building. Currently, he's the director of social marketing at ThisNext, a social shopping site.
Tags: community, article, video - view - bharath - 11/18/2009 - 00:31 - - -
- How to Change the World: The Art of Creating a Community
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I admit it: I’m a user-group junkie. I got my first taste of user groups when I worked for Apple—speaking at their meetings was one of my great pleasures. Their members were unpaid, raging, inexorable thunderlizard evangelists for Macintosh and Apple II.
Tags: business, community, guykawasaki, marketing, social, article - view - bharath - 11/18/2009 - 00:29 - - -
- How to Build an Online Community « OpenBusiness
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A good community is one where people meet and have the possibility exchange ideas about specific or general topics. Good social networks provide ways for groups of people to create the sort of information to create useful affinities or ways to find the people you’re interested in networking with.
Tags: collaboration, community, management, social, article - view - bharath - 11/18/2009 - 00:27 - - -
- Lunch Launches a Personal Recommendation Network (+Invites)
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A new online community site called Lunch.com has just launched into private beta here at the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco. The site, essentially a recommendation network, aims to bring the sort of casual conversations you would have with friends over lunch to the online arena. Using a proprietary "Similarity Network Engine,
Tags: community, recommendation, web20, article - view - bharath - 11/14/2009 - 10:14 - - -
- Diva Marketing Blog - Marketing blogs and corporate social media strategies for innovative companies
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New social networking communities seem to be on every virtual corner these days. Marketers understand that social media can be a powerful strategy that supports niche or segmentation marketing. However, when brands build out communities it's obviously a business decision that has incurred significant resources - including dollars.
Tags: community - view - prasanth - 10/03/2009 - 22:18 - - -
- Ripple6: How to build communities
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Ripple6 founder Sang Kim says his company has learned a lot from trial and error since the community management system launched under the name Mom Junction in 2007.In this interview with Robert Scoble, Kim talks about what he’s learned, including how to create what he calls “cloud communities,” how to scale them and how to
Tags: community, socialnetworking, video - view - prasanth - 10/03/2009 - 22:12 - - -
