Euan Semple started the BBC intranet on a box under his desk and the seasoned community practitioner Dawn Lacallade (previously Lead Stormchaser at Dell and now at solarwinds ) tirelessly waded through the politics at Dell to extol the benefits of the early Dell communities. Equip yourself with loads of great case studies to convince stakeholder of the value to the business. I’m at the Communities 2.0 conference in San Francisco this week.

This is a report on the BBC Learning Unplugged event in Bristol, 26 June 2009. James Richards ( BBC Learning Development ) and Myles Runham (BBC Learning) co-hosted the event with Clare Reddington ( Ished ); I designed and facilitated it with help from Jack Martin Leith . There were approximately 65 attendees, made up of 15 BBC folk and 50 creative (and) technology types from around the country. This report is split into the following: Event purpose

Before joining the Guardian, he worked at the BBC for eight years. He joined the BBC in 1998, as their first online journalist based outside of the UK. From their flagship Washington bureau, he covered the US for the BBC’s award winning news website , while also providing politics and technology coverage for BBC radio and television. About Us | RSS | Advertise | Contact Us Home > Weblog Columns > Strange Attractor Weblog columns [select a blog] [Corante Blog] BETWEEN LAWYERS: technology + culture + law BRAIN WAVES: neurons, bits & genes COPYFIGHT: the politics

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Ellison Department of Telecommunication, Information Studies, and Media Michigan State University Go to a section in the article: Abstract Introduction Social Network Sites: A Definition A History of Social Network Sites Previous Scholarship Overview of this Special Theme Section Future Research Acknowledgments Notes References About the Authors Abstract Social network sites (SNSs) are increasingly attracting the attention of academic and industry

I’ve made a point to put this community knowledge pre-amble in front the platforms list since we have learned from recent case studies that technology decisions should come towards the end of a community. In general, however, we are learning from this year’s studies that when technology drives the community, the outcome tends to suffer. KickApps On BNET: 6 ways to boost a netbook's power BNET Business Network: BNET TechRepublic ZDNet ZDNet all ZDNet in Blogs in News in Downloads in Reviews in Whitepapers in Dictionary Go! Members Log In Newsletters Site Assistance RSS Feeds Home News & Blogs Videos White Papers Downloads Reviews Popular Enterprise Web 2.0 Dion Hinchcliffe

Before joining the Guardian, he worked at the BBC for eight years. He joined the BBC in 1998, as their first online journalist based outside of the UK. From their flagship Washington bureau, he covered the US for the BBC’s award winning news website , while also providing politics and technology coverage for BBC radio and television. About Us | RSS | Advertise | Contact Us Home > Weblog Columns > Strange Attractor Weblog columns [select a blog] [Corante Blog] BETWEEN LAWYERS: technology + culture + law BRAIN WAVES: neurons, bits & genes COPYFIGHT: the politics