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NewsGator hosted a webinar this morning on strategy and governance for social computing initiatives. reducing duplication of effort around social computing initiatives (3) Given that I've just published a book on strategy and governance for SharePoint , I attended. Greg Reinacker ( @gregr ) from NewsGator and Stacy Wilson ( @stacylwilson ) from Eloquor Consulting .

We had an amazing day at the Online Community Unconference yesterday. Over 220 people attended the event and the agenda included 57 breakout sessions throughout the day on topics including: Identifying and Engaging with Online Influencers Social Psychology 101 for Community Managers W.O.M. Branding - Mobilizing Advocates and Brand Citizenship Online Community for Social Good/Change (Non Profits, Multiple Stakeholders) Super Tools for Super Users - Next Generation UI and Technology Brainstorm

Via Sam Putnam : “Look around you. Look down, past your hands, at the keyboard beneath. Look at the frame of the screen you’re reading this by. You are seeing the products of machines. Chances are you’re surrounded by them, from the light over your head to the pipes and beams below.

June 2, 2009 draft of a working group proposal "to promote dramatically increased research support and educational opportunities for technology-mediated social participation especially as related to national priorities" ...Tags: Tags: online_community online_interaction system:filetype:pdf system:media:documen

Suggestions of basic things to have in place when convening a group. ...Tags: Tags: toolkits howto networks convening communities_of_practice thematic_network

As we move from an era of experimentation (flush budgets) to one with much higher accountability for results (frugal investments), it’s even more important to look at why projects fail – and conversely why projects succeed. Plenty has been written on this, so I’ll focus on what is becoming the most common conversation for me with clients – I call it the “general purpose” problem.

Yesterday' conversation with Leslie Bradshaw of New Media Strategies , one of a talented caste of co-presenters at Friedman Foundation's first Generator Forum on social media and the recent passing of Oliver Selfridge,  founding father of artificial intelligence, reminded me I had not posted on the Web Science Research Initiative begun this fall at MIT and South Hampton University. September's Scientific American detailed the philosophy and research focus of the academic program in their article Web Science: Studying the Internet to Protect Our Future. What is most striking

A contribution by Ryan Lanham : “A person inclined to follow P2P really wants to like the Maia Maia project , and I do, in principle. I really hope it works, but it won’t–in practice. The idea is fairly simple: Implement a carbon reduction club and thereby earn a standard amount of “booyas” which are a currency coupon to be used at local vendors supporting the (hopefully) viral movement.

The Online Community Summit will be held October 8th & 9th in Sonoma, CA. It is hard to believe that the Online Community Summit is now in it's eight year! The The Summit was originally convened by Jim Cashel of Forum One in October of 2001 as a unique invitation-based event, bringing together thought leaders from business, government, finance, academia and the media, who despite different positions share a keen interest in online group collaboration.