I’m going to gradually, as time permits, migrate all my courseware across to the new format, offer it for free download under Creative Commons for download (lulu or scribd ), or physical colour workbooks via publish on demand Lulu ( [link] ) . WARNING: I’ve ordered the new format printed workbook from Lulu but I need to check formatting, make sure fonts etc haven’t gone mad. Courseware for Social Media Workshops Check back here - I’ll remove the warning in 3 days when the workbook arrives. 

We ( Gary Hayes from LAMP and I) structured Thursday for speakers to 50 people on their social media marketing campaigns. On Friday, I ran a one-day hands-on computer course on how to do a social media marketing campaign. started with explaining the structure of connecting to social networks and then pointed out that campaigns are just one – but crucial – feature of engaging with online communities. This is for a presentation I gave as a seminar on Thursday. Both days were run through the Australian Film Television and Radio School (AFTRS) LAMP program.

Petersmeyer is the CEO of Personal Pathways , a startup that aims to increase levels of trust and confidence among people within an enterprise “who need to collaborate successfully, but who don’t really know one another.” 8221; (I have no financial interest in or business relationship with PP) PP believes in the power of technology to increase trust and confidence among weakly-tied colleagues (and perhaps even to convert potential ties into actual ones). Andrew McAfee’s Blog The Business Impact of IT Home About RSS Is craigslist or eHarmony the Right Model for Enterprise 2.0? February 23 2009 Comments I had a very interesting talk a little while back with Gregg Petersmeyer and a couple of his colleagues.

am finally getting the rest of the series up.   Part 1 , part 2 , part 3, , part 4, part 5 , part 6 , and part 7 are all here on the blog. We have talked throughout this series on communities of practice about “content.” 8221; Well, what the heck is content, why is it important and how do we make the most of it - especially when there is a LOT of it. This is the eighth  in a series of blog posts I wrote for  Darren Sidnick late last year. I

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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 issues, such as how to introduce ourselves (or our company) to a community, or how to react to someone calling us names, things get a little murkier. Nowhere is that old phrase “you only get one chance to make a first impression” more relevant than when a company representative engages with This guide shares some of the basics of conducting yourself properly when engaging on behalf of an organization within the existing Social Web, with tools and communities your company has created and especially with those it hasn’t.

How to Hire an Online Community Manager by Shara Karasic Top 25 Questions to Ask a Potential Community Hire What online communities are you an active member of? Name 3 top ways to improve communityname . How do you ensure high quality content in a community? What is the last community conference you attended? Name 3 ways to kill a community.

Our experiences with Moodle in a learning trajectory on Capacity Development In the past six months we (PSO) experimented with Moodle, an online learning- and working environment we used in an action learning trajectory on ‘The how and what of capacity development’. And it seems worthwhile to share some of our first experiences with you in this blog. Mainly because we find it wasn’t very easy to integrate an online platform in the broader learning process. How to design an environment in which new users can find their way?

Community Building: How To Create Your Own Social Media Network With Ning Stop [social] networking: Build your own network! - If you ever thought about creating your own mini YouTube, MySpace or community site, in which members can upload media, write and contribute directly, the time of your dream has finally come... thanks to Ning . It is now possible to create your very own special interest social network in a matter of minutes, bringing together like-minded people from across the web. Print this article | Read this article in: | IT | ES | March 6, 2007 ?

I developed a 12-step vlogging process to help a network in Ghana ( GINKS ) produce an ICT4D stories blog. They were amazed that it is so easy to do, easier than maintaining a website for instance. We are still figuring out how to link the blog to the website as a page of the website. We did two videos in the office together for fun, then did two video interviews jointly. The last two videos were published on their own.