Something to grace my USB stick so I am less apt to forget it. Not just scary and ugly, but poorly crafted as well. (The later is not intentional, just due to weak skills.)
John Norris
Cthulhu fob
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Just a quick note to say I’m still around. I have more than a few ideas I will need to be blogging about. Some art related, others more on the social media and collaboration side…stay tuned!
Also exploring a bit of Google+
Health Org’s Communities and Perceptions
Contrary to what one might think, how much empathy an online community seems to have may not be driven by its community’s social bonding. For healthcare organizations, it is communities that could effectively inform, and not socially bond, which were perceived to be empathetic. 1
Not as surprisingly, communities where one felt the other members were similar to themselves, homophily, were perceived to be more empathetic. 1
What might this mean for a community manager?
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Popularity Contest
Think you know what your audience likes? Be sure, by tracking the activity around your content.
By using meta-data about your web content, and traffic analysis, you may begin to see what sorts of things are popular with your audience. You can also run experiments to test your ideas. But what meta-data do you track? Here are a few categories. I’d really like to hear of others-
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Making a Great Good Place
In The Great Good Place 1 Ray Oldenburg looks at several types of real life places (such as cafe’s, coffeehouses, the local pub) and distills what makes them great and why we need them. The notion of a third place, between work and home life, fills a social void. It is an easy read and community managers will recognize a lot of similarities, indeed many have done so already.2
Here’s a quick take on the 8 characteristics and how one could use them to make an online community better:
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