Anyone wanna help me build an online community for Potts Point?
WikiMapia is the project – finally a reason for wanting popup ads!
You find it amazing that everyday people would donate time and energy to mapping maps with useful information. I find it amazing that anyone found all-day parking that close to Sydney Harbour and that they would tell anyone!
Laurel has been creating and managing virtual communities for 20 years, teaching social media for the last 5 years and was named Industry Head, Social Media by Marketing Magazine (Australia) in 2010.
Forbes Magazine named her in the 50 Most Powerful Social Media Influencers in 2012 and she is also listed in the 100 Most Powerful Women on Twitter, as well as Number #12 AdAge Marketing and Media blog (Australia). More on the About page if interested.
I'm running small, one-day computer based social media classes in September 2011 - Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane. If you know someone who would like to do a more advanced class, please let them know! Laurel Papworth @SilkCharm
Do you have any examples of local social networks like the one you are thinking of? I am trying to find examples to help set one up where I live in California.
Have a look at ‘backyard’ or ‘backfence’ – I think they used to white label a local area community online. Not sure if they are still around now.
Backfence I think it was…