community

Making Comments into a Community Members Public

Techcrunch UK highlights some emerging companies that are attempting to build blog comments into something more of a community feature [http://uk.techcrunch.com/2007/11/01/suddenly-blog-comments-is-a-hot-space/]. Six Apart are working on a community solution for Movable Type [http://www.movabletype.com/products/community-solution.html]. There’s something interesting

Adam Tinworth
Adam Tinworth
commenters

Commenter Business Meeting 2 Members Public

I  quite enjoyed the original “business meeting as internet discussion thread [http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1771556]” video that was doing the rounds some weeks ago. I just discovered that there’s a follow-up which is even funnier. **Warning: **Not safe for work, unless your work is happy with swearing

Adam Tinworth
Adam Tinworth
commenters

Left Hand, Meet Right Hand… Members Public

My, my. Information moves so smoothly around big businesses… I learn from Munir [http://www.thebloggingjournalist.com/2007/08/how-uks-farmers.html] that Isabel, the community editor of one of our titles, Farmers Weekly, features in Press Gazette‘s My Week [http://www.pressgazette.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=6&

Adam Tinworth
Adam Tinworth
community

Five Things Learnt In Three Days Members Public

It’s frankly embarrassing when you work all of a three day week, yet are knackered at the end of it. Yet, that’s how I feel as the end of my truncated week in Sutton’s infamous brown towers drawn to its close. Stuff that’s been foremost in

Adam Tinworth
Adam Tinworth
Blogging

Blogging Foot and Mouth Members Public

Having taken an rather uninformative side-swipe at the corporate blogging life in my last post, I feel it’s only fair to point out some good stuff that’s been going on, too. Last Friday’s news of an outbreak of foot and mouth [http://www.fwi.co.uk/Articles/

Adam Tinworth
Adam Tinworth
Blogging

More Rules of Online Communities Members Public

Hilary Perkins has posted two additional things about communities [http://cowbite.typepad.com/cowbite/2007/07/online-communit.html], to add to my list from last week [http://www.onemanandhisblog.com/archives/2007/07/10_things_ive_learnt_about_online_communities.html] .

Adam Tinworth
Adam Tinworth
community

10 Things I've Learnt About Online Communities Members Public

I realised the other day that I’ve been participating in online communities for over a decade, from telnet-based chat rooms via mailing lists to Facebook. Here, mainly for my own reference, are the major repeating themes I’ve seen over that time: 1. Whatever you do, don’t listen

Adam Tinworth
Adam Tinworth
community

Digital Doorstepping: New Worlds, Old Techniques Members Public

There’s no doubt that the shooting of dozens of students at Virginia Tech [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/6560685.stm] in the US was a horrifying event. There’s equally no doubt that the few seconds of shaky mobile phone footage of the shootings was

Adam Tinworth
Adam Tinworth
community