Corporations, media organizations and even political campaigns are launching online communities left and right seeminly. Many of them are doing so without having any real knowledge of what makes a good online community go or how to manage the community if it flourishes.
Matthew Haughey from the massively successful community site Metafilter has a good post up providing some tips....
Continue ReadingA number of us will be headed up to NYC later today to attend the Personal Democracy Forum conference tomorrow. I will be participating in the conference’s Idea Market, where I will be discussing “Best Practices in Blogger Relations.” We’ll also be co-sponsoring a post-conference happy hour from 8:00-10:00 tomorrow night with the David All Group,...
Continue ReadingIt is mini search engine optimization (SEO) for journalists lesson time!
News outlets want healthy traffic levels on their websites so that they can charge more for advertising. In fact, The New York Observer's Michael Calderone quotes a former Forbes.com staffer as saying that their former workplace is "a page-view sweatshop "...
Continue ReadingPrince William: Facebook Fugitive
Prince William starts a Facebook profile. Hilarity ensues.
Grupthink
Sort of a Digg for multiple choice questions. Sample: What is the best open source project?
Truemors
Guy Kawasaki’s new rumor reporting site launches. Apparently the whole thing was built using WordPress. ...
Continue ReadingI’ve always been an admirer of the concept and execution of the social news site Newsvine. I wrote about it glowingly when it first came out. Conceptually it always seemed like a good compromise between the chaos of sites like Digg and the top down nature of traditional newspaper websites....
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