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Le Web: Chris Sacca on Douchebags, Pr0n and Lube Paid Members Public
[](https://i2.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2009/12/IMG_2410_2.jpg) Three more words, but this time for 2010 (and quite rude) from [Christopher Sacca](http:
Le Web: Getting Real with Corporate Social Media Paid Members Public
 [http://www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2009/12/Brian-Solis.jpg] There seems to be a pleasing trend against social media idealism and towards the hard reality faced by people doing this stuff day-in, day-out. As [Brian Solis]
Le Web: danah boyd on Social Network Visibility Paid Members Public
How do teenagers navigate social networks? danah has been doing the research…
Le Web: Chris Pirillo on Genuine Community Paid Members Public
I agree with him and disagree with him. You can, consciously, choose to facilitate activity. You can offer places for them to interact and incentives for interacting there. But I agree with him in that you cannot create or own communities – just host them. And that simple truth runs in
10 Ways to Kill an Online Community Paid Members Public
Interesting video of a talk by Marilyn Pratt [http://grannimari.blogspot.com/]. There are things to disagree with in there (the reflexive suggestion that business people are in some way less willing to learn new tools than ordinary people, for example), but some great reality checks around community development: [Spotted
Links for the Weekend Ahead Paid Members Public
Because, let’s face it, there’s no way you should be reading this on a Friday evening. 🙂 * Steve Yelvington has a very useful guide to seven things you need to bear in mind while developing communities [http://www.yelvington.com/content/09-20-2009/seven-keys-building-healthy-online-community] . * Joanna Geary breaks here blog silence
Social Networks Eroding Forums? Paid Members Public
Forrester’s new Social Technographics Profile report [http://www.forrester.com/Research/Document/Excerpt/0,7211,55132,00.html] hit the interwebs a few weeks back. (I’m catching up on my Safari tabs, can you tell?) A couple of key points in the accompanying blog post [http://blogs.forrester.
On News, Communities and Journalists Paid Members Public
More essential reading for Saturday morning (time for a second cuppa), this time about the relationship between news and online communities [http://www.niemanlab.org/2009/09/newspapers-get-the-kind-of-communities-they-deserve/] : > Our comments routinely point us in the direction of new angles for stories, and in many cases commenters have become sources