Tags: howto development community flickr online_communit Reflections on what it takes to 'feel' like a member of a community. ...Tags:

This involved an audit, mapping and optimisation exercise of all official (Amnesty-run) and supporter-run groups and pages on Flickr, YouTube, MySpace, Facebook, Twitter, Bebo and blogs. Tags: Uncategorized activism Amnesty bebo myspace campaign case study community flickr slideshare social media twitte Made by Many has worked with Amnesty UK since January ‘08, and helped them design and build ProtectTheHuman.com - their digital activism community. ProtectTheHuman.com is a social platform that asks users to carry out a range of online actions in support of Amnesty’s

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Image by Kaptain Kobold via Flickr What makes this site particularly interesting, though, is its use of Twitter, Facebook and Flickr as a way of generating content for the site and promoting participation. They can contribute images by tagging their Flickr contributions with the same tag. LEGO is a brand that many people are very passionate about, a brand people love and we’ve written before about how they use segmentation to engage their consumer base from children to enthusiasts in an innovative way. Now they have continued their innovative approaches

Other examples are self-publishing services like Lulu , photo-sharing sites such as Flickr , video sharing sites such as Vimeo and  YouTube . Tags: Social Web opinion design digital DIY flickr fun Make Magazine Maker Faire Makezine service design social media user generated conten If you want to understand ‘the social web’ and where it’s going, take a look at what the DIYists are up to. For years, DIY was the bastion of the weekend jobbing dad.

Rather than a brand trying to engage people separately in Facebook, MySpace, Flickr, YouTube, Twitter and every other social network and forum site, it is better to use these as gateways to somewhere else. Tags: Matt Rhodes Online communities Social Media Social networks Brand Branded content co-creation customer communities facebook flickr freshminds FreshNetworks FreshNetworks Blog Google innovation Internet marketing market research myspace online communities online market research qualitative market research social media social media marketing Social network Social network service Twitter

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By coincidence, two articles on the issue of copyright in journalism have landed in my inbox today: one by Joel Postman in socialmediatoday concerning the legal and ethical issues of live tweeting from conferences and events (where Twitterers effectively publish a portion of the speaker’s presentation), and the other From Steve Myers at Poynter Online , about a recent case of an image from Flickr sourced by the Chicago Tribune. It was sourced from Flickr, an image available under the Creative Commons license. As a moderation agency, eModeration adheres to very strict guidelines regarding copyright.

There is a particularly interesting post from George Oates of flickr about some of their community stuff, and this particularly jumped out at me: Tags: participationpatterns flickr patterns community management participation design Quotes rules Facilitation Strateg I’m thinking a lot about distributed networks at the moment, decision-making, conversations and how much community ‘platforms’ have moved on. I’m not sure I even believe in the ‘platform’ concept any more as it so loaded a word with so many centralised implications.

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