Howdy Folks – you may have noticed a name change to the Online Community Roundtable group. The primary motivation was to give a home to all the great activity that has sprung up with community managers and strategists around the #octribe tag. Admins are charing some sort of regular regional meetup for community pros. MORE >>

Hello Everyone, I'm Heather Virga and I'm a member of the OC Report team. We are always scanning the latest headlines for interesting social media and online community content and we decided to start publishing relevant highlights to the OC Report. Online Community and Social Media - Let's Get Back to Basics. MORE >>

This month's Online Community Expert interview is with Rawn Shah, Practice lead with the Social Software Adoption team in IBM. He has worked in various roles as a software developer, production manager, a journalist and community program manager in his career. Q: What excites you most about your current community work? MORE >>

This month's Online Community Expert Interview is with Scott K. Wilder, GM for Intuit`s Small Business Online Communities, Support Website and Content / KB article management. Scott worked on the following online communities: eWorld at Apple, Borders Cafe at Borders.com, KBToys Community at KBToys.com. MORE >>

photo credit: OC Always You may have run into a member of an online community, either as the manager or as a fellow member, that made, or attempted to make, a dramatic exit from the community by posting a colorful goodbye message. According to Urban Dictionary, this is sometimes referred to as a “flounce.” MORE >>