Ning and Porn
Ning founder Marc Andreessen has posted a response to the discussions about the fact that quite a bit of Ning’s traffic is as a result of ‘adult’ communities. Ning, remember, is the service that allows you to create your own…
Dave Briggs
An online notebook
Dave Briggs
An online notebook
Building Online Communities with Drupal
Drupal is an open source content management system which is fully extensible through a huge range of community developed modules. It’s the system which powers the demo site I put together for The Information Authority last year, and it is…
Wikis – which is best?
Well, it’s a question. Wikis are funny things, and building communities around them can be quite tricky (although advice like this helps). More than any other types of website, wikis demand community interaction, indeed, they are nothing without it. There…
Online Innovation UK
I’ve been playing around with Ning a little this morning, and am really impressed with it, not least because now users can create subgroups within a community. Add that to blogs, forums, photo and video uploading and plenty of RSS…
The problem with ‘Superwall’
🙂 Via Crunchnotes.
Online Information 2007
Light blogging ahead as I am going to be at the Online Information conference this week. I won’t be taking my laptop with me, but will be twittering my thoughts via my Palm, so do check that out.
Big Juicy Twitter Guide
Caroline Middlebrook has produced a guide to Twitter – what it is and why we should all be using it. Great stuff. Thanks to Phil Bradley for the link – I hadn’t come across Caroline’s blog before but am now…
Every community needs a killer app
Tomorrow is a big day for me – I have an interview for a new job outside of local government but still in the public sector which is going to make me heavily involved in community building, both on and offline.…
Lee Hopkins on Social Media
Great video of Lee Hopkins pouring forth his spot-on views on how social media can be used within corporate communications. Everything he says can be applied to inter-organisation communication and collaboration too. [youtube bYrcY2Wc17o]
Facebook: Social Network Domination?
There’s mounting evidence that Facebook is becoming not just the preeminent social network, but a platform through which the rest of the web is viewed. Take Robert Scoble’s view, who sees Facebook as a ‘data black hole’: I added the WordPress…