I nearly didn’t hear about Our Social World, a a conference about blogging (and business) being held this Friday (09 Sept) in Cambridge, UK. Speakers include Tom Coates (BBC Radio and Music Interactive), Lee Bryant, Ben Hammersley, Julian Bond, Ross… Continue Reading
At the start of 2005, Wired magazine enthusiastically featured Yahoo [ The Ungoogle (Yes, Yahoo!) 13.03], the forgotten internet powerhouse. Most people think Yahoo is just a big index of the internet but it’s other services, such as YahooGroups (which… Continue Reading
The St. Petersburg Times (Florida, USA) reports that "a judge has handed Hillsborough County Sheriff David Gee a victory in his quest to quell what he says are inflammatory postings to an Internet message board used by law enforcement. Gee… Continue Reading
According to BBC News Online Salon Magazine has hung a for sale sign on The Well , the 4000 member community it bought in 1999 for $5 million (£2.75 m). [note: the following comment is my own] In it’s filing… Continue Reading
CommonCraft, the blog of Lee Lefever, is a site that is high up my reading list. That’s why it comes as no surprise to find that Lee’s recently manage to explain, in a way that business people from outside the… Continue Reading
The return on investment (ROI) of online communities has often been difficult to quantify. I once worked for a consumer website where a statistician explained to me that whilst their typical unique user spent upwards of £15 per visit, those… Continue Reading
Writing from the TED (Technology, Entertainment and Design) conference in Oxford, BBC News Online’s Jo Twist looks at how new social software, and online communities, are changing the way companies engage with customers and create products: "Big companies are now… Continue Reading
Anyone who manages or participates in online communities will have observed "bad" behaviour at one time or another. John Davis at Microsoft Research has published an eight page report, The Experience of ‘Bad’ Behavior in Online Social Spaces: A survey… Continue Reading
Viral Marketing and Community Executive: OutsideLine Working predominantly in the entertainment sector, using the power of viral and community marketing, we are able to successfully connect our base of clients with their target audience through seeding of messages boards, forums… Continue Reading
I’ve been a fan of the Counting Crows since about 1993 when, as I was driving through Nebraska, I happened to come across a radio station playing, you guessed it, Omaha. Tonight, after listening to a recording of a live… Continue Reading