Sometimes a job description comes across the Community Guy Jobs Board that I simply can’t help but share it’s so cool. As a long time Amazon fan (I remember when the site was a solid tan background and only sold books), I’ve been so very impressed with the way their site and their community efforts have developed over the years. Amazon’s Community team is looking for a seasoned Community Moderation Manager to help It’s disappointing that they don’t get more credit for the sheer volume of community/social features each and every page of their site has.

Q: I would like to know your insights on building people-to-people networks for increasing knowledge sharing and participation: how to go about it, using discussion forums, and other ways to create a knowledge-sharing environment. Rob Lewis discovers that for the bluest blue-chip of them all, superior knowledge sharing is now key to survival. IBM has a string of KM accolades to its name – so how come it’s moving away from the whole knowledge management model? Weekly Knowledge Management Blog by Stan Garfield KM Question, Thought Leader, Blog, Link, and Book of the Week [ Blogroll - KM Home Page - Send a Question - Implementing a successful KM programme ] KM Question of the Week

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About Contact Sharing at Work Subscribe by RSS Subscribe by email Setting up an internal Facebook might just solve your company’s communications and engagement problems By Daniel J. In other words, our workforce spans 4 generations and even more levels of organizational leadership, and everyone wants the best ideas at the company to be shared as freely as possible so that we can weather the recession. Pritchett on March 20th, 2009 I got pretty excited and tweeted about this throughout the day. Who knew I was looking for diversity?

Here’s the very short list I shared with her (and a few extra ones added in). There are many great books, articles and blogs out there and we’d love you to share your favourites in the comments below. 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. Image by austinevan via Flickr A

But to give this book real value, I was keen to ensure the book could be freely accessed and shared. wanted to not only break down the financial barrier to the information, but also enable communities to share it to have the content be as useful as possible in the scenarios, opportunities and problems that face them. To make this happen O’Reilly needed to be on board to allow the book to be freely copied and shared, in an era in which these very freedoms threaten the publishing world. Home About The Book About The Author About The Editors Spread Buy / Get Reviews Grab the RSS feed Art Of Community Online Posted on September 18th, 2009 Written by Jono Bacon

All large-scale, multi-user communities and online social networks that rely on users to contribute content or build services share one property: most users dont participate very much. Furthermore, at the time I wrote this, 167,113 of Amazon�s book reviews were contributed by just a few "top-100" reviewers ; the most prolific reviewer had written 12,423 reviews. For example, Amazons "people use it.com Alertbox Oct. 2006 Participation Inequality in Social Design Jakob Nielsen sAlertbox, October 9, 2006: Participation Inequality: Encouraging More Users

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His rather strong conclusion : “Online merchants such as Amazon, iTunes and Netflix may stock more items than your local book, CD, or video store, but they are no friend to “niche culture”. Internet sharing mechanisms such as YouTube and Google PageRank, which distil the clicks of millions of people into recommendations, may also be promoting an online monoculture. Whenever I make these claims someone says “Well I use Netflix and it’s shown me all kinds of films I didn’t know about before. It’s broadened my experience, so that’s

People are sharing their stories, complimenting about what’s good, complaining about what’s bad even if you aren’t listening. Companies with strong products users love will help them share those experiences with others. For example, something as simple as a “share this” feature on a news site will allow people to let someone else know about what they find interesting…amplifying their enthusiasm about 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