The challenge is to get some connection and integration - because the vertical organisations will have membership fees and closed spaces, while the horizontal ones will be more open. Josien has been following the development of The Membership Project , started by Simon Berry and I, because this open-closed issue is exactly the challenge faced by the RSA and other membership organisations. I’ve come away from the Powering a New Future conference in Lisbon with three interlocking reflections on developing the concept and practice of social reporting - and a new conclusion about what it means to be a social reporter.

In 2008, I published a vendor product catalog that has details of over 50 of the vendors, beyond these listed descriptions. Update: Feb 2008, now acquired by ONEsite) SiteLife from Pluck Pluck already has some other products this could be interesting. Affinity Circles This seems to have quite a few educational clients, interesting. Kick Apps White label hosted version. Web Crossing Social networking and collaboration suite. Crowd Factory “Platform that allows you to create a social network site similar to MySpace” CollectiveX Doesn’t

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Another thing is that bottom-up creation may result in more communities that have lower membership, but where everyone is a major contributor (these are thriving communities as you usually trust a smaller circle of people, and you are all on the same wavelength and have time for each other). Somehow I have to make clear that communities can be tiny and are able to reject membership. This is a follow-up to my Community Lessons post, and Community paradox post. Top-Down community creation

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I’m delighted that NCVO and RSA have come up with a way to explore the future of membership organisations in a world where people may feel that paying subscriptions isn’t always worthwhile if they can easily get information, advice and connections online. It’s an issue that Simon Berry and I started to pursue with others through The Membership Project , with initial RSA and NCVO support. We generated a lot of discussion, but found it difficult to follow through without more funding. We were both interested in working on specific practical projects, and our

Read More] Tracked on Feb 23, 2008 4:43:00 AM » Digging up an old article on social networks that turned out to be prophetic (and a bonus!) What strikes me is that nothing has changed - people are still racking up the [Read More] Tracked on Mar 31, 2008 11:52:01 PM Comments I think the politicians and sales people use another strategy - they pretend that they keep up with the connections, but in fact they dont. Life With Alacrity Alacrity, noun . From the Latin alacritus meaning promptitude.

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