It seems not a day goes by that a new “Digg-clone” pops-up on the radar and everyone chastises them for copying the popular voting model.
Brands and Community
Brands love community. But do they know what it is? The growth of social networks has forced marketeers to view their consumers differently.
Gay Community More Active In Social Networks
Extrapolate all you want about why it is or whether it’s good, the gay, lesbian, and bisexual community has found a home online in social networks, taking to the new medium like rams to, well, other rams. According to a poll by Harris Interactive, the GLB community is much more active in Web 2.0 than their heterosexual counterparts.
600 New WAS Community Edition Partners
IBM announced last week that more than 600 partners have joined the WAS Community Edition (WAS CE) partner initiative that was launched 6 months ago. And that over 200 ISVs have already developed applications that support WAS CE.
MyBlogLog Community
Peter Davis ran with a theme I wrote about in The Long Tail of Linking – building a professional peer group.
Community Podcast directory?
Dave Winer linked over to a Canadian podcast directory. That’s very cool.
PR Community Action on Social Media Press Release
Whether journalists are ready or not for the social media press release, the PR community now has a great opportunity to thoroughly discuss the concept and try to get some traction with the whole idea of evolving the press release into something far more valuable than purely a vehicle for transmitting messages.
Shai Agassi on Community Value
Shai Agassi held a private Q&A after his keynote. Of interest to me was his comments on their largest online community, the Software Developer Network:
P&Gs Community Relations Blog
Jaffe Juice points us to a P&G community relations blog: Notes from the Front Line.
Entrepreneurs: Community Leadership
Small business is the backbone of the economy. Small businesses hire the vast majority of new employees. Independent businesses are leaders in their community as well.