People are always asking us for great examples of online communities in their particular industry, so we thought we’d start a series of great examples from different industries: Online Community Examples . People very often have strong allegiances to particular brands and may choose to always purchase, for example, a Ford or a Renault. Each Monday we’ll be taking a particular industry and giving three short case studies of online communities, whether for marketing, customer engagement, market research or other reasons. Today we start with the

A busy week at FreshNetworks has meant that we’re a little later than expected  bringing you the third in our series of Online Community Examples . After looking at examples in the retail and automotive industries, this week we are looking at examples from the not-for-profit sector. There are many great example of not-for-profits using social media and it is sometimes the case that this sector can Online communities in the not-for-profit sector There are many reasons for this: the financial pressures are different, there is a real need to engage people

For the next in our series of Online Community Examples we are looking at examples of online communities in the travel industry They may be leisure travellers who might only stay at your hotel once per year or even business travellers who use your airline each time they fly to New York. The three examples below show different ways in which companies in the travel industry are using online communities to engage their customers Online communities in the travel industry The travel industry is one well suited to online communities focused on engagement.

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Talking to people from MDF , a training and consultancy firm, we had to conclude that there are few practical examples of communities of practice in a development context, so I'll try and search harder (haven't even started the whole km4dev journal for instance). I'm not sure if there are no examples, but there may not be many well-described cases of how communities of practice were intentionally nurtured and leveraged for enhanced knowledge sharing and innovation for development. One example of a community of practice is the KM4dev community and I had the honour to to talk to Lucy Lamoureux, the coordinator, somewhere last year, about the same time of the publishment of an official interview with her in the km4dev journal She describes the Km4dev community as a group of development practitioners working in knowledge management and knowledge sharing who ask for advice and receive quick responses from peers.

Yes, indeed, walking the talk and leading by example! And I am really excited to hear that, even though probably not as excited as they may all well be seeing it coming to light in the next few days! bet most of those reasons would give you plenty of food for thought on your own adoption efforts and perhaps a hint or two on how to overcome some of the hurdles you may still be facing … So here there are: " Employees Want to Put a Face to a Name Remember the blog posts I put together yesterday on the topic of " Just Do The Right Thing " by the wonderfully gifted industry analyst / blogger Rachel Happe ?

Another example: James Joyce once made a fuss over the size of a full-stop in Ulysess .) War and Peace , for example, should feel heavier in the hand than Heart of Darkness . But go to any one of a number of independent bookshops – Daunt Books and the London Review Bookshop are two excellent examples – and you’ll find that things are very different. Basheera Khan writes that bookshops should die . Retreating slightly from her panegyric for digital readers, she falls back on the library as the alternative.

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few good tips and examples but also some "buyer beware" tactics that folks should be aware of. The example is correct in that there are some costs associated with telephones (and international calls as outlined below) that can be avoided if you use another communication channel. Using the soft productivity argument might get the project approved - but it may not always result in benefits people can actually measure. I caught a couple of blog posts on the IBM Keynote for UC ( Lotusphere Message: Yes There Is a UC ROI ) and then one on the Sametime blog (see below). A

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