What's Inside:
Greetings Online Community Peeps,
We have lots of great content in the report this month, including coverage on data portability, the online community unconference, and mobile social networking. Don't miss the exclusive interview with mobile analyst Christine Perey.
On to the Report!
Bill Johnston, Editor
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Online Community Highlights
A Walless Garden?
In
the past week MySpace announced it's new "Data Availability"
program, then Google announced it's "Friend Connect" and Facebook got
on-board with "Facebook Connect." They all sound great and use the
latest buzzword "open." But are they all they seem? Not yet. There
are limited application integrations and functionality at this time.
However, it's clear that we are on the road to an open social web.
Coming Soon: A Web-Wide Social Network? - AdAge
Facebook Matches MySpace's Data Portability Program - MediaPost
Share MySpace, Facebook Data With Other Sites – The Death of the Walled Garden Imminent Soon? - WATblog.com
Prying Open the Social Graph - Gigaom
Viva La Unconference!
On June 18th, Forum One will be hosting the 3rd annual Online Community Unconference in Mountain View, CA. One of the best things about the Unconference format is that there it generates lots of great content which is captured via blogs and the Unconference wiki. Some of the best (and still relevant) content from Unconference 07 includes:
Online Community Unconference Wiki (session notes / handouts)
Still debating the future of communities after all these years - Carol McManus
Some notes from OCU 2007 - Joi Podgorny
Online Community Unconference 2007 - The Social Wave Blog
Thank you Forum One for organizing the Community Unconference… - Community Group Therapy
Capture from the Community UnConference - Jeremiah Owyang
OCU2007 Notes - Josh Ledgard
Online Community Planning: Getting the Party Started - Common Craft
Mobile Social Networks
Mobile
social has been a hot topic on our minds for months now. In fact, it's
hard to not read, hear or talk about all of the opportunities and
advancements the mobile social market has to offer. With on and off
deck players growing their traffic over the past few months and users
joining more mobile networks, we are only at the beginning of a new
era. Will mobile social networks bridge the gap of being at home on
your PC making online connections to actively seeking physical
connections using your mobile phone to locate people you'd like to talk
to in person? Some say yes. Perhaps mobile providers will create more
flat-rate all you can consume plans and get a piece of the ad revenue
pie? The bottom line is that the mobile market is growing and as users
get more comfortable with the applications, it will become mainstream.
How to make mobile social networks work – FierceMobileContent
The future of social networking: mobile phones - TimesOnline
Nielsen: More Mobile Users Get Social – MediaPost
Everyone Is Talking About Mobile Social Networking - eMarketer
Analysis: MySpace and Facebook challenge mobile-only social networks - VentureBeat
More Highlights:
Google Gets Closer to a Mobile Future - NYT
The Internet search giant joined an industry consortium that plans to build a next-generation wireless data network.
The Golden Rules For Engaging Youth Online - Ypluse
Keeping your brand fresh and building connections to create a base of youth advocates.
MySpace To Share User Profiles With Other Sites - Information Week
My space joins the "data availability initiative."
Ignore Gartner, social networks ARE ready for commerce - ZDNet
Ian Hendry assets that social networks are ready for commerce, as long as your community wants commerce if you expect to succeed.
B2B in a Web 2.0 World, Part 1: Digital Media Relations - E-Commerce Times
The emergence of Web 2.0 has changed the PR game.
Can Advertising Truly Be Social? - Social Media Explorer
Jason Falls describes his opinion of the term Social Advertising and what it actually means.
Groups Complain To FTC About Mobile Marketing - MediaPost
Advocacy groups are pursuing an FTC complaint about behavioral targeting.
Changing channels in mobile TV - RCR Wireless News
The business model of mobile TV is flawed and the user experience is lacking.
Online Community Events
Online Community Unconference 2008 (Early Bird Pricing Ends 5/18)
June 18, 2008 in Mountain View, CA
The Online Community Unconference is a gathering of online community
practitioners - managers, developers, business people, tool providers,
investors - to discuss experience and strategies in the development and
growth of online communities.
Super-early bird tickets sold out in 24 hours! Current attendees
include: Autodesk, BabyCenter, CafePress, Cisco, Consumer Reports,
Flickr, Google, Care2, Ebay, Flickr, Intuit, LinkedIn, LinkTV, O'Reilly Media,
NetAPP VMWare and many others.
Early bird pricing of $145 is available through May 18th. Click here to register.
Other Events:
WES: Policy Data Remixes and Mashups
September 9, in Washington D.C.
Organizations
play critical role in the organization and analysis of critical and
policy data, but their work products often do not get the attention it
deserves. Today's effective organizations are leveraging the Internet
to share their findings more clearly with wider audiences.
In
this Web Executive Seminar hosted by Forum One, speakers from think
tanks and other policy organizations will present inventive uses and
presentations of online data including mashups, online graphing,
embedding, and open sharing.
OC Expert Interview : Christine Perey - Mobile Communities
In
this interview, Christine Perey shares the key trends that online
community professionals should be monitoring and expands on some of the
findings published in the new Informa Telecoms and Media report, Mobile
Social Networking: Communities and Content on the Move.
Know an online community expert with an interesting story to tell? Or are you one yourself? Email me, and you may be the next expert interviewee!
Online Community Jobs
A current list of Online Community job opportunities. If you would like
to include an open position in the next issue of the newsletter, please
email with the title and link to the job description.
Adobe
Community Manager - Photoshop Express/Photoshop Elements
CafeMom
Community Manager
Cisco Systems
Community Manager
CODEPINK
Online Community Organizer
Collabnet
Online Community Manager
Forum One
Information Architect
Senior Programmer - Technical Lead
Web Developers
Games for Change
Community Manager
Gas Pedal
VP Meetings & Events
Web/Print Designer/Producer
Director, Membership Sales
Executive Assistant to the CEO
John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
Electronic Communications Specialist
Kickapps
Developer Community Manager
Knight Foundation
Online Community Manager
Lexis Nexis Martindale-Hubbell
Community Manager
Lithium
Community Excellence Manager
Manager, Community Management Services
LiveWorld
Community Manager
Community Specialist
Mzinga/Prospero Technologies
Moderators Fluent in German, French, and Japanese
Ning
Community Advocate
Opera Software
Community Manager, Consumer Products
PEAK6 Investments, LP
Online Community Manager
Satmetrix
Sr. Manager of Online Community and Marketing
The Mathworks
Web Application Developer
Trusera
Online Community Manager
Sr. Product Manager
Wikia
Community Development Associate
Yahoo!
Community Manager
Zecco.com
Online Community Manager
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