Wow! Backfence is a super local online community in the States. Backfence.com is a new way to find out what’s going on in the world closest and most important to you: Your neighborhood. And the information is written by the people who know your neighborhood best: You and your neighbors. What’s happening with the new development down the street? Does anybody know a good housepainter? Who won the T-ball championship? What’s the best place in town to find good Thai food? Have you seen the photos from the church fundraiser? Who’s going to be the new junior high school principal? Continue Reading…
I see the words ‘online community’ and I hesitate before clicking. In my experience a lot of “online communities” are one way dispersal of information, with feedback forms and email-in-options only. That’s not a community. Thats a portal. So what about one of the biggest and bestest supported “world communities”, World Community Grid? World Community Grid’s mission is to create the largest public computing grid benefiting humanity. Our work is built on the belief that technological innovation combined with visionary scientific research and large-scale volunteerism can change our world for the better. Our success depends on individuals – like you Continue Reading…
Oct 182005
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Reading Peter Sheahan’s book “Generation Y, Thriving and Surviving with Generation Y at Work” again, I ended up skipping through looking for the one-liner about a survey finding Generation Y as the first generation to acknowlege the PC as having a soul. I couldn’t find it to quote here, did I imagine it? Ah well, it got me thinking… GamerDad has a great article on spirituality in online roleplaying games – including this piece from Lord British, Richard Garriott himself: Richard Garriott received a lot of fan mail from his early Ultima games; a lot of them were from, in Continue Reading…
Santa Clara University has launched what seems to me a fairly unique campaign to attract students to their campus using blogs. Santa Clara University Launches Student Blogs;Prospective Students Get a Glimpse Into SCU Student Lifestyle SANTA CLARA, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Oct. 12, 2005–Santa Clara University launched a unique, interactive student recruitment initiative using web logs, or blogs — online journals. The blogs will have five SCU students posting weekly updates of their life at Santa Clara with text and photos. The goal: provide prospective students with authentic, firsthand accounts of student life at SCU.“When prospective undergraduate students are interested in applying to Continue Reading…
Download your episode of “Lost” or “Desperate Housewives” (from Yahoo!) LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – ABC’s unprecedented plan to offer next-day downloads of its biggest prime-time hits for $1.99 per episode TO Apple’s new video playing iPod opens a new revenue stream for the TV industry and a new era of digital portability for viewers, experts said on Wednesday. The move, unveiled in conjunction with a new partnership between the Walt Disney Co. and Apple Computer Inc marks the latest bid by a major broadcast network and its parent company to shake up “old media” models and expand their avenues of Continue Reading…
If you are interested in building your own online community, keep an eye on the Vic government “My Connected Community” funding site. My Connected CommunityMy Connected Community provides training and online resources to enable community groups to:•establish a website•publish online•network with members•extend group membership and activities•communicate with other communities of interestMy Connected Community is funded by the Victorian Government through Multimedia Victoria and is coordinated by VICNET. Interested in developing an online community? The fifth round of funding closed end of Sept, but I’ll keep an eye open for further and similar opportunities for ya!
Offline Community plug: I’ve volunteered to help the AidsTrust at Sydney Food & Wine Fair 2005, on Saturday 29th October. Over 70 of Sydney’s finest restaurants will be on board whipping up their signature dishes, alluring morsels and heavenly desserts, all at a fraction of the price one would pay at one of these excellent establishments. There will be over 30 of the state’s top wineries, coffee houses and even a selection of smooth jazz, dj grooves and cabaret performers They’ve asked for volunteers for the following: 1. Friday 28th October between the hours 10.00am-5.00pm to help cover stalls with Continue Reading…
Oct 112005
This article is from Admanager in the Nederlands. Young people blog their way to a publishing revolution The extent of the personal publishing revolution has been revealed by a Guardian/ICM poll showing that a third of all young people online have launched their own blog or website. Millions of young people who have grown up with the internet and mobile phones are no longer content with the one-way traffic of traditional media and are publishing and aggregating their own content, according to the exclusive survey of those aged between 14 and 21. A generation has grown up using the internet Continue Reading…
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