‘Online Communities’ posts

Social Commerce

Posted by Optaros on 02 Mar 2009

Last week I attend the first part of a workshop in London hosted by IMRG to focus on driving sales through the use of Social Commerce (checkout their website for further details). The event was very well attended with a number of excellent guest speakers. Below are my observations of what I see as the | View post »

Why Communities Fail

Posted by John Eckman on 17 Jul 2008

Ben Worthen had an article the other day in the Wall Street Journal about the kinds of online communities companies are starting to build – “Why Most Online Communities Fail.” He provided some potentially disturbing statistics from a recent study: Thirty-five percent of the online communities studied have less than 100 members; less than 25% | View post »

Content Management in the Age of User Participation – Presentation

Posted by John Eckman on 20 Jun 2008

Earlier this week, I had the opportunity to present at Web Content 2008 on user generated content and the impact it has on content management.The presentation is called “Tag, Upload, Share, Discuss: Content Management in the Age of User Participaiton” – you can view it below, or download the PDF at slideshare.   | View | 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 »

Marketing to Women? Don't Ignore the Blogosphere

Posted by John Eckman on 18 Apr 2008

Brands who hope to market to women should no longer consider the blogosphere as an emerging or fringe channel, but should recognize the pervasive presence and increasing influence of women as authors, readers, and commentors on blogs. That’s the message of the BlogHer | Compass Partners 2008 Social Media Benchmark Study, based on a presentation | View post »

Optaros Scores a Hat Trick in Alfresco Awards

Posted by Marc Osofsky on 27 Feb 2008

Alfresco announced their annual awards for 2007 today (press release ) and Optaros was well-represented. First, Endeca took the award for Content Management and Collaboration Implementation of the Year for the Endeca Developer Network (EDeN) portal. You can read more about the Endeca solution here . Next, Optaros was awarded International Partner of the Year | View post »

Yahoo! Announces OpenID Support

Posted by John Eckman on 17 Jan 2008

After a number of folks noticed code referring to OpenID showing up in Flickr pages (I think this was first noted at Mashable), there's been much speculation about Yahoo! becoming an OpenID provider. Today Yahoo! made it official. From the press release: Yahoo!'s initial OpenID service, which will be available in public beta on January | View post »

What kind of community?

Posted by John Eckman on 10 Jan 2008

One of the basic challenges in creating online communities involves getting beyond the idea that all communities are alike. Communities have cultures, and those cultures evolve essentially out of the behavior of the community inhabitants. This doesn't mean, however, that you have no control over what kind of community you create. And I don't mean | View post »

Online Community with Radio

Posted by John Eckman on 10 Jan 2008

In creating :Vocalo, the folks at Chicago Public Radio weren't just trying to create a new website for a radio station. They were trying to create an entirely new experience, which would enable an online community and help CPR reconnect with a geographic community which was underserved.  As Torey Malatia put it, in this article | View post »

Online Community Maps

Posted by John Eckman on 10 Jan 2008

Given that people think of their online communities using analogies form the physical world – that is, we think of web sites as "places" which we "visit" – it isn't surprising that a number of interesting maps of the web have emerged. Here are a few of my favorites: The xkcd Map of Online Communities. | View post »

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