Valeria Maltoni tells the story of Jermaine Dupri, who found Twitter lacking, and built his own community – Global14. With 38,000 members, this site is oriented to making meaningful connections. The difference between Twitter and a community like Global14, said Mr. Dupri, one is an invitation tool, the other a place where you can actually have the […]
Be the Online “Go To” Place for Your Members
AssociCom bashes email, by quoting a McKinsey report claiming that productivity could be improved by 25% by using social technologies, instead of email. It is hard for some to break the email habit for sharing information; but it will happen because it makes sense and is more productive. More at Be the Online “Go To” Place […]
Newly Launched Mural.ly Offers New Way to Collect and Share Content Online
Violeta-Loredana Pascal shares the news on a new online sharing service. It’s a new tool that allows users to collect and share content from various sources, from maps to pins from Pinterest, from videos to DropBox files and so on and so forth. More at Newly Launched Mural.ly Offers New Way to Collect and Share […]
Not just another Zombie Story: Bringing a Community Back from the Dead
mik0ton shares some tips on how to restore an inactive community. But first, he asks the important question, has the community served it's purpose, and if so, then it's time to close the doors. But if it’s just inactive “Can you bring a dead community back to life?” More at Not just another Zombie Story: Bringing […]
Collective story harvesting
Chris Corrigan relays some news from Mary Alice Arthur, about their methodology for collecting stories. In the Art of Hosting community over the past two years a group of practitioners have developed a tool called the Collective Story Harvest. I’ve used it several times and it’s a powerful and useful way to rapidly learn from the […]
How Mobility Empowers Work as a State of Mind in the Era of Social Business
Luis Suarez riffs on how our mobile technology is dramatically changing our work life. And shares some insights from his employer, IBM, and how they are embracing these tools, and weaving it into their employee's lives. Mobility is here to stay. It’s changing the way we work, connect, collaborate, share our knowledge, be in the […]
Shifting Forces in (Digital) Culture
Valeria Maltoni discusses Jonathan Harris’s talk at Creative Mornings, New York. Jonathan talks about the trends in human communication, and how the Internet is causing big shifts in people’s behavior. And these people are having a really big effect on the behavior of hundreds of millions of humans through the software they design and introduce […]