Month: June 2014

This Guardian article outlines how Radio 1 decide what music the show will play. Given Radio 1's audience, they're essentially anointing the next music stars

Pay close attention to Discourse and Moot. Both are simple, clean, lightweight, well-integrated, upgrades on traditional forum-technology. Both prove that organizations don’t have to spend

Dave highlights this post by Rob Seaton. Rob believes communities decay as they grow larger. I’ve included his summary below.  The development of trust and

StackExchange writes about the perils involved in reputation and collaborative wiki creation. It’s hard to ask people to put a lot of effort into creating

“there was nothing in the community that was interesting to me” This why most people don't participate.  So what’s interesting to me? There seem to

The bigger a community gets, the more disruptive members you will have. That’s the law of averages. Some people will be disruptive. You can remove

This is a common question: "My members won't interact on the site.They interact via e-mail but refuse to use our super expensive, brand new, feature-filled, community site."

It should have happened the other way around. First there should have been a significant increase in social capital. We should have seen most trust