With flickr like tagging of content ("folksonomy") all the rage at the moment, I’m surprised we haven’t seen this before but I think the project the BBC launched yesterday, and which I’m working on, is the first message board to… Continue Reading
I don’t much like camping, nor do I live anywhere near California, but if I did I’d consider attending Tag Camp (28 Oct – Palo Alto): Tag Camp is an open, welcoming event for geeks to camp out overnight, get… Continue Reading
It’s been announced that the 8th Infonortics Virtual Communities conference, originally scheduled for November 2005, has been cancelled. It’s a real shame. The conference has always drawn some pretty high caliber speakers from around the world and, most years at… Continue Reading
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
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
A recent conference in Budapest explored the themes of The Global and the Local in Mobile Communication All conference papers are now available online, including highlights such: Joshua Meyrowitz (University of New Hampshire): The Rise of Glocality: New Senses of… 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
Business Week has recently published an excellent article by Rob Hoff, The Power of Us , about social software and online community. This type of thing is always useful for consultants or anyone else trying to justify spend on online… Continue Reading