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…
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…
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…
I’m not sure how this chap’s philosophy about AI relates to Online Communities, but I know it does…somehow. Honest! If computing speeds double every two years, what happens when computer-based AIs are doing the research? Computing speed doubles every two years.Computing speed doubles every two years of work.Computing speed doubles every two subjective years of…
I know its been around for a while (Jan 2000), but for those newly joining the online community revolution, Wikipedia is an online encyclopedia. Its claim to fame? Its entirely contributed to and edited by users. And while there have been some naughtys that tried to pull a swifty or two, in the main, the…
Ok Meme are always fun for opinionated adults like me… but who let the kids at ’em? o.O KidTastic Meme – The First Meme Blog for Kids Only! What is a Meme you say? Memes are questions you see on someone’s blog that you take back to your own and answer. Someone sees the questions…
Hmmm you don’t suppose Rupert bought them because he wants the game hacks and cheats first, do you? Los Angeles, CA, October 4, 2005 – News Corporation and IGN Entertainment, Inc. announced today that Fox Interactive Media, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of News Corporation, has completed its acquisition of IGN.Under the terms of the…
chromatic from SlashDot has some great points about what constitutes an online community in his article. Let me dot-point: Exist For a Reason (what I call ‘compelling content’)Users Draw Other Users ( ‘viral marketing’)Users Will Surprise You (and astound and amaze and inspire )A Sense of OwnershipA Shared History and CultureThe Bell CurvesBarriers Are Mixed…
User generated content newspapers? Not quite, this is for the movie with Malcolm McDowell (sexeh Sean Connery type), you create the edition then email it to a friend. They advertise their movie in the Masthead while you upload a foto and write the Lead whatever. I still think Multi-blogs are the way to go for…
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