Alongside blogs, they are now the most popular category online when ranked by time spent on site. Australia, Brazil, Japan, Switzerland, Germany, France, Spain and Italy) shows not only that overall time on site has increased, but also that the global audience for social networking has increased. Tags: Matt Rhodes Social networks Australia facebook France FreshNetworks Germany Nielsen Company Social network Social network service Twitte Image by Balakov via Flickr In December 2008, global consumers spent an average of just over three hours on social networks .

A while back I blogged about the possibility of networks and blogospheres cutting into the need for communities. Stowe Boyd has more on this “ shift ” that may be a big cognitive reason that when it comes to individual learning on a topic, networked sharing is cutting into the ease of learning over CoPs: “Contrasting group forums with blogging is a good example in which to make the distinction between group- and individual-oriented social tools. I believe this is happening a great deal, as now people may have a more purposeful or ideal way of achieving their

The community is a blog from travel journalist Amy Graff, where she share first hand travel experience and chronicles her trips and visits. We have already written about BA’s MetroTwin and the Air France-KLM Bluenity sites. From articles and recommendations to blogs and the Ask the Crew feature. For the next in our series of Online Community Examples we are looking at examples of online communities in the travel industry Online communities in the travel industry

Posted by: John Faughnan at November 28, 2007 10:23 PM I have to agree that the social utility shape will be amazing for a work environment: users will at last be able to have the choices the CIO used to make (poorly) for them. Posted by: Bertil at November 29, 2007 09:27 AM An illustration in the real world : Serena Software Adopts Facebook as Corporate Intranet, [link] Emmanuel, from France Posted by: Emmanuel Berck at November 29, 2007 09:27 AM >> It’s the informal one that governs the real >> flow of information and influence in a company .... Alfred Prufrocks

In the process it has helped me to clarify Stephen Downe’s distinctions between groups and networks, the way that certain tools seem optimized for different levels of these granularities (for example blogs are better for networks than for groups) and it has helped us to create a rationale for use of collectives in formal education. in a recent blog posting . Home About Terry Anderson Virtual Canuck Teaching and Learning in a Net-Centric World Feed on Posts comments On Groups, Networks and Collectives April 30, 2007 by Terry Anderson Jon Dron and I have been having fun developing a paper for ELearn in which we’ve been wrestling with the distinctions between three granularities of social software.

Links to Facilitation Resources The Art of Hosting Good Conversations Online - Howard Rheingold - the quintessential guidance for conversations centered spaces Gail Williams Online Community Building Concepts - "almost proverbs" The WELL Hosts Manual Forum One Guide to the Web-based Discussion Forum Sector - excellent site to explore who is doing what with online communities The Moderators HomePage A fine collection of links with an emphasis in online education. Tags: onlinefacilitation , onlinecommunity posted by Nancy White at

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Blog Your path to success Measuring Community Strength by Gil Yehuda on February 4, 2010 in Enterprise 2.0 I’ve been reading a lot about “2.0 Rachel Happe, an expert on the subject,  blogged about this a while ago.  In Rachel’s blog Home About Services For Vendors Policies Enterprise 2.0 Personal Branding Subscribe Gil Yehuda's Enterprise 2.0 communities” from the perspective of employee communities (related to virtual teams and communities

While the governments of England, France, and Germany are buying hundreds of airplanes for their armed forces and supporting aviation research, the United States is spending roughly the same amount of money   as Bulgaria. ( As impressive as Facebook is, as impressive the growth of blogging - this is all personal. I think that history will look back at Facebook More on War as the accelerant for Social Software by Rob Paterson November 29, 2007 at 7:44 am · Filed under 2.0 Design Thinking , Business Model , Economics , Enterprise 2.0 , Facebook ,

In a post from almost a year ago we look at data showing that Russia was the fourth largest market in Europe for social networking behind the UK, Germany and France. ...Tags: Image by Xavier Lozano via Flickr At FreshNetworks, we aim to bring you the best posts in social media, online communities and customer engagement online. In