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And thanks for the stats
This is odd.
Today I was reading on Wordpress.com’s blog about “Two New Stats Things”, written by the always fantastic and multi-talented Andy Skelton, and since I use Wordpress’ free stats plugin as my primary means of tracking statistics here on First initial, last name I figured I’d show my appreciation to Andy and team for [...]
Yes, Panic has a blog.
In July of this year I conducted an interview with the co-founders of Panic about transparency in software development which was published in September. Prior to that interview in a short, off-the-cuff, via email, discussion with Steven he mentioned that they had just been putting together a plan for 2010 to help “lift the veil” [...]
Posted in Links Also tagged blogging, business, cabel sasser, panic, software development, steven-frank, transparency Leave a comment
Your community is in the room
My friend Gary has been quoted as saying “Community starts with one”. In other words, a community can begin with just one person besides yourself. If you are building an online community this fact can quickly be, and wrongfully so, ignored due to the massive amount of people online. It isn’t very long into any [...]
The new NPR.org
NPR.org is getting a facelift on July 27th. As a way to promote the new redesign, allow people to see it, and to give feedback, NPR has created this promotional video and put it on YouTube. The video shows Scott Simon, one of NPR’s hosts, going through the site for the first time and describing [...]
Missing the old days of blogging
Michael Heilemann recently had an idea for a comment system based on Twitter @replies. Not a new idea, to be sure, as there are several rather well-documented solutions for this floating around out there. But that isn’t the bit I’m interested in with his post. I’m interested in the bit where he says he misses [...]
Posted in Notes Also tagged blogging, comments, facebook, friendfeed, interactivity, michael heilemann, socialweb, twitter 5 Comments
Coaching a Community by Laura Brunow Miner
Some of us in the “community” space think about these topics every single day. Seldom do we get a good soapbox to talk about them. Laura Brunow Miner, editor in chief at JPG Magazine, did on A List Apart in her brilliantly detailed yet simple piece entitled Coaching a Community.
“In the end, we’re talking about [...]
Podcamp Hawaii session notes: Using video to build community
Notes and slides from my presentation at Podcamp Hawaii.
Posted in Links Also tagged colin-devroe, hawaii, honolulu, oahu, pch08, podcamp, podcamp hawaii, session, viddler, waikiki 2 Comments
Wall-E loves Viddler!
One of Viddler's community members shows his love of Viddler through animation.
If by 800 followers you mean…
The number of followers I have on Twitter isn't a true representation of how many people are following me.
Project Pedal compares interaction on video sharing sites
A balanced analysis of interaction on various video sharing sites.
Posted in Links Also tagged blip, interaction, project-pedal, viddler, vimeo, youtube Comments closed
Giving into community pressure
Do you find yourself using a particular service, not because you like it, but because your friends or "the masses" are using it? I do.
Posted in Notes Also tagged carsonified, community-pressure, internet, pownce, ryan-carson, twitter, viddler, video, web, youtube 25 Comments
Learning how to respond to downtime
I'm trying to learn from the good and bad examples of how to respond to downtime and how to keep the community up-to-date during it.
Posted in Notes Also tagged 37signals, blogger, customer-service, downtime, flickr, viddler 7 Comments
One possible benefit from disabling comments
Although the reasons for an author to disable comments may vary there is one possible benefit from doing so that may have not been discussed.
Posted in Notes Also tagged blogging, comments, conversation, digg, jeremy-keith, youtube 8 Comments
Build “nice” software
Great advice can come from many places - this time it comes from a friend Down Under.
Posted in Notes Also tagged chris-messina, lachlan-hardy, larry-halff, ma.gnolia, nice, openid, software, viddler 1 Comment
Communities do not scale they divide
Once communities get too big they begin to divide. I do not see this as a problem to solve but rather something to embrace in social software.
Posted in Notes Also tagged animals, california, cat, division, flickr, lolcats, new-york-city, Photos, pickles, pookers, san-francisco, social, viddler, web2expo, web2open 4 Comments
Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee
9rules Ali: "I am the greatest, I said that even before I knew I was."
Posted in Notes Also tagged 9rules, blogging, mike-rundle, muhammad-ali, Paul-Scrivens, redesign, social-network, thoughts, Tyme-White, web-design 7 Comments
This week at Viddler
An overview of some of the things going on at Viddler, Inc. this week.
PBS: Creative Commons + Flickr = 22 million sharable photos
Share and share-alike I always say.
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