Archive for December, 2007
More on The Blog Council: Do we practice what we preach?
On Friday I posted my opinion (fine, my rant) about the reaction to the announcement of the Blog Council. Basically I was arguing that if a group of like-minded people wanted to get together and support each other, even if behind closed doors, I have absolutely no problem with that. Certainly I might end up [...]
Job Board Update: 16 Open Jobs
It’s that time again - plenty of community jobs up for the taking!
Fast-Growing, Kids Website Seeks Community Service Lead (San Francisco)
Sales Associate (Virtual Office)
Community Development Manager (Wikia Germany) (Germany)
Online Community Manager, Zazengo (virtual)
Games for Change Community Manager (New York, New York)
Community Manager: SF Bay Area (Financial District, San Francisco, [...]
Rapid Fire - Saturday, December 08
String of new concepts puts Threadless on map
“But why a store after seven years, after turning down offers from chain stores to carry their tees and after watching other online entrepreneurs emulate their business model? Threadless sees the store as more of a marketing vehicle than a sales tool for the company, exposing its concept [...]
Rapid Fire - Friday, December 07
Unique Visitors to Facebook.com jumped 20% in November
“In the space of a month, Facebook has gone from media darling to devil. However, all the bad PR didn’t hold back Facebook.com traffic in November. Unique visitors jumped 20%”
Tags: facebook, socialnetworking, dailylinks
CompUSA to close all of its 103 stores after holidays - Dec. 7, 2007
Bummer… I was [...]
Industry maturity brings different challenges
My buddy Andy has launched a new project this week called the Blog Council. From the announcement press release:
The Blog Council, a professional community of top global brands dedicated to promoting best practices in corporate blogging, officially launched today. [...] The Blog Council exists as a forum for executives to meet one another [...]
Supporting Obama
For readers of my blog, it comes as no surprise that I’m a big Barack Obama fan. I tell a lot of people about why I like him and try to explain that “experience” isn’t necessarily a good thing. After all, we currently have one of the most “experienced” (and greedy, and incompetent, and lazy…) [...]
Great communication drives community activity
Like any good relationship, a community is or is not successful based largely on it’s ability to effectively communicate. Social groups have enough communication problems when they primarily based offline. (Remember that time your office mate said that thing that pissed you off so badly? Yeah, I thought so.)
Add anonymity and faceless interaction into the [...]
Web Community Forum, here I come!
Blogging has been light lately, what with me on the road most of November. I have one more scheduled trip this year (although there’ll probably be more, the way things are going), and I’m looking forward to it. I’ll be speaking at the Web Community Forum in Seattle. Great people, fun town.
I’ll be sharing a [...]
Rapid Fire - Sunday, December 02
Facebook Dims the Beacon Spotlight
“Facebook made modifications to a controversial advertising system that many users considered an invasion of privacy.”
Is it just me or can Facebook not launch new, significant features worth a damn?
Tags: facebook, dailylinks, privacy, socialnetworking
7 Skills of Change Masters - One Mans Blog
Interesting look at learning from the “Change Masters” [...]
Interview: “Insights in Fielding Social Media Systems”
Back in September the prolific Tom Parish from IT Conversations and I chatted about the state of social media and the future of its adoption within an organization. The interview has been posted, so check it out if you’re game!
Here’s Tom’s overview:
Jake McKee made his mark in the realm of social media and customer [...]
