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Managing Online Communities CourseMonday, October 23. 2006DC Event: Web 2.0 -- Getting Your Users InvolvedMonday, October 9. 2006 Forum One will be hosting the next Online Community Forum on November 9th in at the National Press Club in Washington DC. The event, "Web 2.0: Getting Your Users Involved" will feature discussion and case studies from organizations moving from using their web sites to "publish" to using their web sites to "engage".For more information, see the Forum One event web site. Online Community Summit ReviewFriday, October 6. 2006 Thanks a million to all of this year's participants in the Online Community Summit. It was a terrific two days in Sonoma.Everyone will come away with different impressions. Here were a few of mine: - Emergence of the "Emotional Web": We heard a lot of discussion, particularly among the non-profit participant, of the importance of imbuing web efforts with "pulse". It is increasingly hard to engage users; It is almost impossible without appealing to their emotions. - Emergence of video: We heard terrific presentations by Bill Schreiner of AOL / UnCutVideo.com and Brian Gruber of Fora TV about the emergence of video. It's clear that every organization should be paying attention to this right now. - Emergence of China and India: Thanks to Satya Prabhakar of Sulekha.com and Xioafeng Jin of Linkool.biz with the fantastic presentations on the growth and impact of online communities in India and China. - Emergence of... Everything Else: Peter Kaminsky of Socialtext and Danyel Fisher of Microsoft Research took us through a whirlwind of new technologies and possibilities -- hang on! Thanks again to all of the participants -- again a great event. Tag: OCS2006 TrueHoopWiki.com: A Collaboration Case Study in 3 PostsThursday, October 5. 2006 Henry Abbott, the sportswriter behind TrueHoop.com (worth the daily read for any hoops fan), wanted information, and now he's got the world working to get it - with a wiki. On September 7th, 2006, Abbot posted a TrueHoop blog entry titlled "Things that Should be Online, But Aren't". Number 1 on the list: A complete list of NBA agents and their clients. One month later, TrueHoopWiki.com is making that a reality. In four short weeks Abbott went from wishlist to growing online resource - a great testimony to the power of the network and simple online collaboration tools. Here's how it unfolded: September 7th: Abbott Laments the Lack of an Agent-Player List with a Blog Post September 8th, 11:03 AM: Doug, a TrueHoop blog reader comments: Someone should start a collaborative site where fans can postagent-player links. Whenever a player's agent gets mentioned in a localpaper story it could be posted on the site. Just from reading Pistonsarticles from the last few years I've compiled a list of the agents ofall their current players. Though it's tough to know when a playerswitches agents. September 8th: Later that day: Abbot Reiterates the Need let's just set up a wiki and collaborate on making that list. Everytime any one of you sees in an article somewhere that it says somethinglike "Al Harrington's new agent, Arn Tellem..." then you could updatethe wiki. ...and sounds the Wiki call:
3 Weeks in September : Abbott hooks up with TrueHoop readers Rolando de Aguiar, J.P. Given, Engineer Scotty, and Matt Bailey - the build TrueHoopWiki in 3 short weeks. October 3: TrueHoopWiki.com is released into the Wild Here's how we hope it will work. If you see an online article about a certain NBA player that mentions their agent, please update TrueHoopWiki (which already has "stub" entries for every current NBA player, or darned close) with the name of the agent and a link to the source article. With lots of people contributing, it shouldn't take long to have a fairly complete and up-to-date agent resource. technorati tags:wiki, collaboration |
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