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Community and Content: Business Week's Business Exchange
Posted 30 Jun 2009 by John EckmanTags: Assembled Web, Blogs, business, Collaboration, Collective Intelligence, Community, Content Management, content syndication, Crowdsource, media, Media and Publishing, new media, online, Platform, publishing, Recommendations, Social Networking, Strategy, Syndication, Twitter, User Generated Content, Web 2.0

Earlier this month, during the MediaBistro Circus, John A Byrne (@johnabyrne on twitter) spoke about how Business Week is transforming itself, engaging with users, and taking advantage of new opportunities to bring commun + Read more

Leveraging APIs to Grow Your Digital Footprint
Posted 13 Apr 2009 by John EckmanTags: Advertising, API, application syndication, Assembled Web, Business Model, Community, Content Management, content syndication, Crowdsource, Digital Media, Distributed Development, long-tail, media, Media Advertising, Media and Publishing, Online Advertising, Open Innovation, Open Source, publishing, Social Networking, syndicate, User Experience, Web 2.0

While non-profit, community-oriented public radio stations aren't usually seen as being at the forefront of Internet technology, National Public Radio has been quietly making very impressive moves in adjusting to a new set of user expectations and technologies we've termed the Assembled Web. + Read more

Reviewing the Groundswell
Posted 22 Jul 2008 by John EckmanTags: Blogs, Business Model, Collaboration, Collective Intelligence, Community, Crowdsource, Direct Consumer Engagement, Drupal, Enterprise 2.0, Groundswell, Marketing, media, Online Advertising, Open Source, Social Networking, User Experience, Web 2.0

One danger of reviewing a book is the reality that the reviews ultimately say more about the reviewer, and the book he or she wishes had been written, than they do about the book which actually was written. It's in that context that I offer this review of Groundswell: Winning in a World Transformed by Social Technology, by Forrester Research analysts Charlene Li and Josh Bernoff, published by Harvard Business Press (note: disclaimers at the end of the post). + Read more

Online Communities in Less than 10 Minutes
Posted 28 Apr 2008 by John EckmanTags: Collaboration, Collective Intelligence, Community, Crowdsource, Culture, media, User Experience, User Generated Content, Video, Web 2.0

In this video, Berkman Center fellow Ethan Zuckerman recounts the high points in the history of online communities in just about seven minutes, including BBSs, MUDs, MOOs, and Weblogs, tracing all the way from the origins of internet email through to Fox's acquisition of MySpace. + Read more