community
Six months later, FriendFeed grabs the team microblogging grail
It’s been just under six months since FriendFeed launched their first real time updating features. At the time I was characteristically excited about the possibilities, noting that
twitter-style @replies to individual users and direct messages to individual users … are all it would take to push FriendFeed over the hump in the enterprise market. - Sharing at [read more...]
Improve Participation by Simplifying Sharing
Today’s post continues this week’s theme of improving the value of your work by capturing more conversations online. Let’s take a look at “7 seconds to knowledge share” on John Tropea’s “Library Clips” blog. John takes a characteristically detailed look at an ephemeral seven-second window between the time a worker learns or does [read more...]
Drive Growth With Sticky Conversations
Have you ever left a comment on a site without knowing if the intended recipient would ever see it? Do you find yourself making the same points over and over again in different conversations? Do you have trouble telling people apart online or remembering your favorite contributors? These are some of the problems addressed by [read more...]
New Collaboration Community for Programmers: Stack Overflow
A new community for software developers has launched today, and it’s a strong one. Stack Overflow was created by popular coder/bloggers Jeff Atwood (codinghorror.com) and Joel Spolsky (joelonsoftware.com) as a forward-thinking place for coders to meet online and exchange ideas, problems, and solutions. The front page interface is pretty familiar – it looks [read more...]
Great New Community Building Resource Launches This Week
Prolific community building expert Connie Bensen has launched a much-needed new resource this week: The ‘Community Manager Resources’ Wiki. This new tool should be a great addition to the resource list started here earlier this month with help from commenters including Ms. Bensen.
This is a brand-new community so it’s still got plenty of [read more...]
