‘Crowdsource’ posts

Brand Control on the Assembled Web

Posted by John Eckman on 25 Sep 2009

Who controls the meaning of your brand on the internet? Control! (Photo by Faramarz Hashemi, cc-by license) One of the principles of the assembled web says: Your brand is not what you say it is, but what your prospects, customers, partners, and employees say it is. In short, your brand is what the Internet says [...]

Community and Content: Business Week's Business Exchange

Posted by John Eckman on 30 Jun 2009

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 community into contact with content. One of the sites he mentioned was the Business Exchange, a new community (really a set of communities) | View post »

Leveraging APIs to Grow Your Digital Footprint

Posted by John Eckman on 13 Apr 2009

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. As consumers have become increasingly sophisticated in their consumption (and control) of | View post »

DrupalCon DC 2009: 5 Key Trends

Posted by John Eckman on 20 Mar 2009

Earlier this month, I had the opportunity to attend DrupalCon DC 2009. (DrupalCon is the semi-annual gathering of Drupal developers, users, themers, consultants, and contributors; its generally held once in the US and once in Europe each year – the next will be DrupalCon Paris in September 2009). I’ll be posting more specific updates on | View post »

Reviewing the Groundswell

Posted by John Eckman on 22 Jul 2008

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 | View post »

Online Communities in Less than 10 Minutes

Posted by John Eckman on 28 Apr 2008

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. The video comes from the YouTube channel recently established by | View post »

Open Source CMS – How Telcos can benefit

Posted by Optaros on 14 Apr 2008

The larger telecom operators have been reinventing themselves over the last couple of years again and again. They constantly look to replace voice revenue and profit lost due to competition, they fight price declines, migration and substitution effects. It’s a fine line of introducing new products as needed and demanded and at the same time | View post »

Turning the Web 2.0 Tide to Your Advantage

Posted by John Eckman on 19 Feb 2008

Josh Bernoff and Charlene Li, both of Forrester Research, have an article in the Spring issue of the MITSloan Management Review titled "Harnessing the Power of Social Applications," which, for now at least, is available in free full text to non-subscribers, as part of an Online Preview. It's a very smart article, worth reading in | View post »

The Library of Congress, Flickr, and You

Posted by John Eckman on 16 Jan 2008

The folks at Flickr and the Library of Congress have worked together to create The Commons. Basically they've taken a subset of the images in the Library of Congress which have no known copyright restrictions and posted them as a collection on Flickr. Where do you come in? They're asking / allowing users to describe | View post »

Web 2.0: Nightmare or Dream?

Posted by John Eckman on 08 Jan 2008

The Wall Street Journal has (under the rather pugilistic title "Full Text: Keen vs. Weinberger") a transcript of a debate between David Weinberger and Andrew Keen on the topic of user contributed content and web 2.0 generally. It's an enlightening read to see how two very different frames make very different pictures of (more or | View post »