for an emerging practice like online community building the most useful and practical knowledge isnt found in books or whitepapers or articles or blog posts. instead it is widely distributed among the growing number of practitioners spread among hundreds or thousand of companies who are doing the work of community building every day. i meet lots of community practitioners in my work at lithiu...
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google lancia healthmap httpwww.co rriere.its alute08 luglio 14 il nuovo servizio interattivo disponibile su internet mostra la diffusione delle epidemie laaca rtinaa di healtmap httpwww.he althmap.or g washi ngton dopo google map arriva healthmap un nuovo servizio interattivo disponibile su internet che mostra la diffusione delle epidemie. si tratta di una mappa interattiva creata da google ...
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if youve seen the news this morning you know that we announced our second round of venture funding certainly a major milestone for our company and a source of great satisfaction for all of us who work here. for me its been an opportunity to reflect on my two years at lithium and all the changes ive seen in that time. i always say that no one was in a better position to evaluate lithium as a produc...
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i had an excellent time at the online community unconferen ce yester day bill johnston and the good folks at forum one networks put together a great conference with around 250 of us unruly cats successfully herded.for those unfamiliar an unconference is one where the agenda and presenters are not decided in advance but rather are built through audience participation at the start. highly approp...
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i am really excited about the upcoming online community unconference. registration on event brite. the cost is 195 and well worth it. i really respect the long term engagement that forum one has had in this space convening events about online community for over 8 years yes this was before web 2.0 existed. they support a community of professional online community managers and companies who have...
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if you are interested in learning about social networking and are convenient to d.c. here is an announcement for an upcoming seminar geared specifically to the nonprofit world. facebook myspace orkut digg delicious flickr twitter and other social networking and social media web sites are experiencing tremendous audience growth. its now clear that most effective issuesbased organizations in 2008 wi...
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one of my favorite web sites is that for the african wildlife foundation full disclosure it was designed and build by my company forum one communications. it is packed full of gorgeous images but i kept running into one that stuck with me for obvious reasons.......
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the buzz bin asks some interesting questions about unconferences. i havent been to an unconference as of this posting and im curious to hear your thoughts. are they really as great as people say or is it just hype because its something new to start off with format of unconference that you are referencing is at corporate communications and the social media revolution. it is using a format that is ...
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