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#RSAcommunity - Zachary Neal and the problem of diverse communities Paid Members Public
[https://i0.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2013/05/zachary-neal.jpg] Liveblogged notes of Zachary Neal [http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415881425/]‘s talk on community integration and cohesion at the RSA. In this talk he’s going to focus on micro networks. Are diverse communities possible?
Interhacktive Reading: 18/10/12 Paid Members Public
[https://i2.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2012/10/community-folks.jpg] Some community-related links, mainly for my community and social media module students at City University – but shared for the betterment of all… * Daily Record suspends comments on football articles [http://www.journalism.co.uk/news/daily-record-comments-on-football-articles-ban/s2/
Meaning: Pamela Warhurst on Incredible Edible Paid Members Public
[https://i1.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2012/10/pamela-warhurst.jpg] *Catching up on my liveblogged notes from last week’s Meaning Conference [http://meaningconference.co.uk] – I ran out of laptop battery, so couldn’t post them at the time. * Pamela’s here to tell us a
Community for community's sake Paid Members Public
Neil Perkin [http://neilperkin.typepad.com/only_dead_fish/2012/09/the-702010-content-planning-model.html] : > Too many brands attempt to establish communities with no clear purpose to that community, or plan for what they’re going to talk about not just over the next few weeks, but long-term. So they soon
Branch: new conversations for the internet Paid Members Public
Branch [http://branch.com], a new discussion platform for the interwebs is out of beta [http://bulletin.branch.com/post/29351108916/welcome-to-branch], but not out of needing an invite to get in. Ah, well. Until we hoi polloi are allowed in to play, we can gaze adoringly at on-going Branches,
Leadership without organisation Paid Members Public
Lloyd Davis [http://perfectpath.co.uk/2012/07/31/commitment-the-power-of-just-showing-up/]: > Someone needs to say they’re going to show up for it. That’s what makes stuff happen. Lots of other important things help too, but it really kicks off when someone says “I’m going to be there
Why comments matter: conversation Paid Members Public
> The purpose of writing on blogs, community sites like Comment is free, and much of social media is to start or further a conversation – not to share a few writerly pearls of wisdom. The great majority of writers on this site (and the New Statesman, for that matter) are
Comments: we're talking about the wrong thing Paid Members Public
Daniel Ha, CEO of Disqus, writing for WIRED [http://www.wired.com/insights/2013/02/anonymity-isnt-the-problem-with-web-comments/] : > But for too long, the debate about online discussion has been about the commenters. We need to move away from pointing the finger at pseudonyms or anonymity as the sole problem, because it’