Image by austinevan via Flickr Community Building on the Web : Secret Strategies for Successful Online Communities , Amy Jo Kim ( Amazon ) – a great text explaining the how to grow online communities, and explaining through examples why they grow like this. Managing Online Forums: Everything You Need to Know to Create and Run Successful Community Discussion Boards , Patrick O’Keefe ( Amazon ) – another great textbook of how to set-up and manage online forums and discussion boards. A good friend of mine started a new job for the new year

Photo uploaded to Flickr by jdlasica @bbhlabs eBay and Amazon never talked of “social media” - they talked about “service” and “community”. David Armano. bbhlabs sent me a link to this great blog post on the Harvard Business site by David Armano ( @armano ). I

Image by communista_unicorn via Flickr Amazon (88) There are some great examples of brands using social media that we use a lot at FreshNetworks . Not because they necessarily get everything right, but because they show what works for them and why, and they help to give ideas and inspiration to others. We’ve looked at some such examples before with how organisations can use Twitter .

Examples of this include things like: Alex posted a photo to Flickr or Alex twittered thathe is on a plane. As we have previously discussed here, most companies on the web have been silos.From Amazon to Netflix the companies have held on to the user information that they gathered, turning it into a business advantage.Open Social paves a way to a potentially new kind of web culture. Consumers are going to recognize thatif their social graph is portable and if their attention ReadWriteWeb ReadWriteWeb ReadWriteTalk Enterprise Jobwire About Subscribe Contact Advertise RSS RWW Daily by Email RSS RWW Weekly Wrap-up Home Products Trends Best of RWW Archives R/WW Thanksgiving: Thank You Google for Open Social (Or, Why Open Social Really Matters) Written by Alex Iskold / November 22, 2007 8:39 AM / 13 Comments « Prior Post Next Post » When Google and others ganged up on

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Why do they upload pics to Flickr ? For example, Amazon’s “people who bought this book, bought these other books” recommendations are a side effect of people buying books. Thanks for visiting and hope you come back again! Amy Jo Kim , flickr , israel , Online Communities , participation , Ross Mayfield , virtual community , yaniv golan Tweet This About the author: Ayelet is a strategist in the world of online marketing, community building, social The Next Web » Why people participate in online communities - The Next Web advertising Apple digg Europe facebook five questions for start-ups funding funny germany google Inspiration iphone marketing Microsoft mmm mobile music myspace russia search social network social networks Start-ups TechCrunch thenextweb2008 twitter united kingdom Video Interview yahoo youtube Home About Advertise Contact Team Archives The Next Web Conference 2009 will take place on April 15, 16 and 17 in Amsterdam.

The runaway successes of YouTube , MySpace , and Flickr have completely changed the landscape of design. Have seen sites start to add social functions (as a “me too” approach) perhaps without really thinking through whether it suits their business or its something that can operationally support. Joshua Porter Says: May 2nd, 2007 at 11:34 pm According to Amazon, 16 features isn’t too much. blogged about it here: UIE.com | UIE Roadshow | UIE Web App Summit | UIE Virtual Seminars User Interface Engineering Home About Us Services Articles Events Reports Blog Podcasts Blog home Archived posts RSS Feed ( What is rss? ) Why Invest in Social Features for Your Web Site? By Joshua Porter May 1st, 2007 This is the first in a multi-part series on the topic of social design, a follow-up

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LinkedIn, your business blog, or even your (work safe) Flickr stream are all great options. Content: If the social system you’re using has the ability to add content (such as photos on Flickr or applications on Facebook), spend some time to build out the content. These services all perform a similar function: they take a long URL (think Amazon product page) and turn into a very short URL that’s easier to use online or in emails. Most of us know that in the typical online community, it’s not kosher to post blatant marketing materials. But when confronted by other more nuanced

For example, we know from research done by [photo sharing website] Flickr that while Americans are big sharers of photos, Scandinavians are not. Already you can browse a site like the New York Times or Amazon, then write comments and reviews. Knowledge@Wharton Managing Technology Research Article View Article on Knowledge@Wharton Mobile Not a Site, but a Concept: Tapping the Power of Social Networking Published: July 09, 2008 in Knowledge@Wharton Mini USA, the American branch of BMWs Mini Cooper line, tracks everything being said about its brand everywhere on line -- in blogs, discussion groups, forums, MySpace pages and much more -- then uses what it learns to guide advertising