Year: 2011

Ed called yesterday’s post on community symbol systems mindless wiffle. Writing about communities can be easy. You can tell people you need to have a

Communities share the same common symbols. Symbols can include objects, ideas, words, phrases, people, signs, culture, language. Anything that has representative meaning exclusively to members

On a call with a potential client last week: "We gained 10,000 members in the first month" That's not a good thing. 10,000 members in

Do you remember Quit Facebook Day last year?  The media reported on a few thousand people who had promised to quit Facebook. Not many of

Phil makes some good points about future-proofing his community (make sure you’re subscribed to his blog). The problem is future-proofing a community is different from

Tommy Sollen isn't allowed to comment on this thread in the GameSpot forums. The reason? "Your account must be level 3 to post a comment

People who participate in an activity together, participate in that activity more often.  For most companies, that means if you convert soloists into a community,

There are two ways to persuade your boss to develop a community. First, use powerful anecdotal evidence. The metrics of a community usually aren’t thrilling.

Someone made a suggestion this weekend to make it difficult to participate in the bad (off-topic conversations).  I disagree.  Off-topic conversations are good. Actually, they’re