I’d love to see examples of managers and communities across the maturity graph. Reply Cancel reply Leave a Comment Previous post: A Few of Our Members Next post: Hierarchies and Pryamid Schemes Categories Select Category About Best Practices Community Manager Role Definitions Events Featured Presentaions Reports Resources Strategy TheCR Quick Chat Podcasts Tools Uncategorized Archives March 2010 February 2010

Since we started in September 2007, we’ve made several attempts. For example, it’s become more difficult every week since we started to draw the line between what used to be called ‘ marketing ‘ and what used to be called ‘ product and service design ‘. We’ve found it really challenging to boil down what we do into one of those little paragraphs much beloved of professional services companies – the so-called ‘elevator pitch’ that neatly encapsulates the so-called ‘offering’. It’s been driving me nuts.

Benjamin Chiao gives an example to show how open source companies can exclude people from using free software, thereby effectively privatising it: “Over the last four years, the author measured the time needed to download various versions of Red Hat Linux, from 5.2 In September 2002, the author spent about 10 hours to download this software through the Internet. In a 2003 essay, BENJAMIN HAK-FUNG CHIAO makes the startling claim that FOSS is actually Private Property, not in the legal sense, which creates a fictional Common Property, but in a economic sense, as individuals and companies can effectively exclude others from using it, thereby achieving one of the key characteristics of private property.