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August 13th, 2009 | Jeff Cobb | Comments | Continued
“The difference between an audience and a community is which direction the chairs are pointing.”From Chris Brogan. Full post is here.Apologies for lite blogging this week – will hopefully make up for it on Friday, when we’ll be at BlogPotomac. Can.Not….
June 9th, 2009 | Maddie Grant | Comments | Continued
Just in case you didn’t see it, Acronym has a cool series of posts all about community, which of course, is my thing.Shirky: Associations must be the broker of connections – thoughts from the ManBuilding and sustaining community – thoughts from me and…
June 1st, 2009 | Maddie Grant | Comments | Continued
So Lindy and I got back late last night from NTEN’s Nonprofit Technology Conference, which was, of course totally intense. We’d never been before (and were able to find lots of others who hadn’t either, creating another layer of collective newbie e…
April 30th, 2009 | Maddie Grant | Comments | Continued
Normally I’m not one to call people/companies/organizations out for things that they do to me. I generally handle things behind the scenes if I think I’ve been wronged and move on with my life but in this specific instance I decided that it was worth posting about because it could potentially happen to any of us.
Here is the situation. For the past few years I have been an outspoken fan of Fusion Productions DigitalNow conference. In my humble opinion it’s one of the best organized [read more]
April 22nd, 2009 | Dave Sabol | Comments | Continued
Just read this fantastic post over at AriWriter from guest poster Ethan Yarbrough, who explains how as a social media expert he wants to be asked not only how many social networks he has managed, but how many have succeeded or failed.Read the details o…
April 21st, 2009 | Maddie Grant | Comments | Continued
I’m just finished an awesome book called Tagging: People-Powered MetaData for the Social Web by Gene Smith.It sounds like a dry subject, but tagging is really super cool and has massive implications for the design, building and nurturing of online comm…
April 15th, 2009 | Maddie Grant | Comments | Continued
Do you know who’s part of your community?Who are your people? Why are they here?How have they changed? What’s important to them?Have you asked recently? And while we’re at it.. what’s YOUR story?
April 8th, 2009 | Maddie Grant | Comments | Continued
“The key to creating or transforming community is to see the power in the small but important elements of being with others. The shift we seek needs to be embodied in each invitation we make, each relationship we encounter, and each meeting we attend. …
April 1st, 2009 | Maddie Grant | Comments | Continued
Thanks!
I’m at Tech09 today through Wednesday! As you know the keynote is Jeff Howe on Crowdsourcing, so to add to this theme I want to tell you about this cool company which crowdsources creatives.
We heart GeniusRocket.
Basically the way it works is that you submit a “Request for Brilliance” (LOVE that!) describing…
January 26th, 2009 | Maddie Grant | Comments | Continued
I happened to see the second of the Narnia movies, Prince Caspian, recently. In it there is a scene in which the younger Pevensie brother, Edward, appears before the enemy as a messenger and is addressed as “Prince.” “King,” he replies, “It’s King Edward. Peter is the High King.” In response…
January 13th, 2009 | Jeff Cobb | Comments | Continued
What a year this has turned out to be, huh!
I hope to find time to post a personal note about it all in a couple of days (the holidays are a good time to step back and take stock, aren’t they!) but in the meantime I started making a…
December 24th, 2008 | Maddie Grant | Comments | Continued
So psyched. Please read and comment! Thanks!
December 16th, 2008 | Maddie Grant | Comments | Continued
Check out this post by my blogger buddy Dennis McDonald on whether everyone in an organization should have customer service responsibilities. He picked up on my earlier comment about community management, where I said that community management should be part of everyone’s responsibility who deals directly with customers or members.
I am…
December 16th, 2008 | Maddie Grant | Comments | Continued
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