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Hats off to the BCTF
The BC Teachers' strike hit home today, with CUPE picketing in support of the teachers even as some prospect for reconciliation has emerged. Our daughter's daycare was closed so that staff could respect CUPE's picket lines. But I have to admit that despite the...
Everything I needed to know about community engagement I learned from Flying Meat
Flying Meat is the software company behind VooDooPad, my latest favorite application ever. VooDooPad is one of those transformational technologies that do one small but crucial thing so incredibly way that they change the whole way you work. In this case, what...
Wanted: Office & Web Manager for community-minded web company
For more details visit http://www.socialsignal.com/hiring If you're organized, enjoy working with technology, and want your work to have social value, you could be the newest member of Social Signal (http://www.socialsignal.com). We're a Vancouver web company that...
Aggregation as an endless loop
Here's a challenge for wiser RSS-wranglers than I: as aggregation becomes a more widely used tool for populating web sites, how do we prevent RSS feeds from being cluttered with multiple identical posts? I was just looking at the Technorati tag page for net2, where a...
Community goes corporate
Boyd Neil of Hill & Knowlton has written a very kind and thought-provoking post in response to the launch of Social Signal. Boyd's observation is that corporate communicators have a lot to learn from social movements and community activists about how to use the...
Introducing Social Signal: collaboration for communities
I'm delighted to announce the launch of Social Signal. Social Signal's goal is to support online communities and distributed collaboration networks -- networks of communities that share content and relationships by using the latest generation of web tools. This...
Latest project: TechSoup/CompuMentor
My latest venture in the fabulous world of Web 2.0 is helping CompuMentor -- home of TechSoup -- set up an online community in conjunction with an event they are organizing for next spring. Job one? Use this post to check whether the aggregation is working.
What Google blog search doesn’t have
Rob highlights its pros and cons. How could he forget to mention its gravest oversight: no rankings! Or is this a desperate hope that the ascendance of Google could change the domestic balance of power?
National Conversation now online
Politics Online has launched theNational Conversation project, which aims at engaging Americans in dialogue about major national issues (in the first instance, 9/11 and Hurricane Katrina). I like the effort to encourage multimedia contributions, and to allow people to...
10 ways RSS can help build online communities
Non-governmental organizations seeking to strengthen relationships with members. Governments trying to reach out to citizens. Businesses hoping to engage and win the loyalty of customers. These are the kinds of challenges that bring people to the field of online...