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- Twelve best practices for online customer communities
- One of the more significant Web 2.0 trends in business this year has been the advent of the Web-based customer community, where groups of like-minded individuals focus around a brand or a set of product and services come together and interact online. Far from the cynical marketing ploy that it...
- Tags: Community, Best Practice, Customer Community, Deloitte, Community Management, Marketing Research, Social Networking, Marketing, Online Communications, Advertising & Promotion, Dion Hinchcliffe
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
- Jennifer Leggio unpacks demand letter over "branded community"
- Over at ZDNet's Feeds, Jennifer Leggio walks us through a cease and desist email she recently received. The email suggested her blog's use of the term "branded community" might constitute trademark infringement. It's a good object lesson about paying attention to cease and...
- Tags: Community, Letter, E-mail, Blogging, Online Communications, Internet, Denise Howell
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
- 'Branded community' leads to trademark morass
- After publishing a guest blog on enterprise communities, I received what appeared to be a cross between a sales pitch and cease-and-desist email from a branding business. How is this approach good branding? by Jennifer Leggio
- Tags: Community, Branding, Marketing, Jennifer Leggio
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
- Enterprise communities: build or join?
- Determining how a company should engage with or create an online community is a critical process. Aaron Strout, VP of social media for Mzinga authored this primer on what steps enterprises must take while evaluating their community engagement strategies. by Jennifer Leggio
- Tags: Facebook, Community, Network, Social Media, Customer, Site, Social Networking, Corporate Communications, Blogging, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Internet, Jennifer Leggio
- Blog posts 2008-07-23
- Citrix versus the Xen community
- As the virtual machine software competition heats up, one would expect representatives of each of the suppliers to take shots at one another in the media. I've seen a recent example of this.Two of the proponents of Xen, Citrix and Virtual Iron, appear to be having at it in the...
- Tags: Community, Citrix Systems Inc., Xen, VMware Inc., Technology, Virtual Machine, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2008-07-15
- Got diabetes? Connect!
- Social networking has come to the diabetes community in a big way with the launch of Diabetic Connect, a product of Alliance Health. by Dana Blankenhorn
- Tags: Community, Type, Social Networking, Healthcare, Strategy, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Management, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-07-14
- BHave Toolbar (exe)
- BHave is a community driven Internet filter that allows users to submit pages that contain offensive materials, pages that are created by scammers, pages with known fraud activity, or any other page that you think your community should be warned about. This version is the first release on CNET Download.com.
- Tags: Community, Page, HydraByte, BHave, Internet
- Software downloads 2008-06-11
- The community wars
- The struggle to build open source communities is, I'm convinced, one of the biggest stories of 2008. (This illustration is selling the Devicescape developer community.) The trend began two years ago when major projects broke away from Sourceforge and began launching their own forge sites. This began...
- Tags: Community, Arms Race, Open Source, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-05-28
- The power of you: Siemens recognizes green efforts of three U.S. communities
- I've been remiss in following up some admirable community sustainability awards that are being sponsored by Siemens in conjunction with the Business Civic Leadership Center and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. While these projects aren't strictly green technology initiatives, they ARE being pushed forward by advances in alternative energy and...
- Tags: Community, Green Technology, Siemens AG, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-05-16
- House of Hackers social community opens up
- PDP, the leader of the Gnucitizen White Hat Hacker outfit announced the opening of the House of Hackers social community yesterday. The House of Hackers is intended to enable its members to exchange ideas with each other, communicate, form groups, elite circles and tiger/red teams, conglomerate around projects, and participate in...
- Tags: Community, Network, Member, Hacker, Gnucitizen White Hat Hacker, House, Hacking, Social Networking, Networking, Security, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Nathan McFeters
- Blog posts 2008-05-06
- Swarming around in HiveLive
- Does anyone need another enterprise collaboration tool for helping get closer to the customer? How about if you had a collection of tools in one space that are people centric rather than task or functionally bound? This is the set-up for looking at HiveLive, a vendor...
- Tags: Community, Swarming, HiveLive, Productivity, Groupware, Blogging, Wiki, Marketing Research, Enterprise Software, Software, Internet, Online Communications, Marketing, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-03-31
- The Make it Your Own Awards
- The Case Foundation has sponsored an initiative to bring often fractured communities together around a project or set of projects, calling it the "Make it Your Own Awards." From an applicant pool of nearly 5000, they have chosen 20 outstanding projects and left the voting on the top 4...
- Tags: Project, Community, Case Foundation, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-03-26
- Freezoka Toolbar (exe)
- The Freezoka Toolbar is part of the Freezoka free Web hosting service. The Toolbar allows members of the Freezoka community to submit their Web sites in the Site of the Day category. When a Web site is submitted here, it becomes available for all Freezoka Toolbar users to see and...
- Tags: Web, Community, Web Site, Freezoka, Freezoka Toolbar, Web Site Development, Web Technology, Web Hosting, Channel Management, Internet, Marketing
- Software downloads 2008-03-25
- Into Africa: Inveneo's low-power computing alternative
- I am way too far out of traditional work mode to wrap my head around some of the other subjects I've got cluttering my inbox. Weekends are for non-profits, like San Francisc0-based Inveneo, which is bringing computers and IP communications technology to under-served regions in places like Nigeria. ...
- Tags: Community, Green Technology, Computing, Inveneo, Weekends, Productivity, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-03-22
- In open source 2.0 it's the quality of your forge that counts
- In an interview with ZDNet at his Atlanta office this week Appcelerator CEO Jeff Haynie called 2008 the year of "open source 2.0." He explained that JBOSS, where he worked before starting his new firm, grew its tool before it grew its community. "Many of those...
- Tags: Community, JBoss, Open Source, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-03-13
- GenieTown: Local services as local community
- In a market where many of the global players have local listings for businesses and service providers, GenieTown is starting at the ground level and building up. The company, which made its public debut today, is a knowledge-sharing community built around person-to-person and small-business services providers in the Bay Area....
- Tags: Community, Service Provider, GenieTown, Business Services, Benefits, Human Resources, Mitch Ratcliffe
- Blog posts 2008-02-20
- One Eye Open (zip)
- One Eye Open was created to simplify searching the craigslist RSS feeds. You can create custom watches to search through your favorite craigslist communities. You can build a single search to span one or more communities on craigslist.com, and check as often as you like. We happen to live in...
- Tags: Community, RSS, Internet
- Software downloads 2008-01-23
- Microsoft embedding social media in Dynamics
- Earlier today I spent time with Craig Dewar and Julio de Villasante, both of whom are working on social media style applications at Microsoft for the business applications divisions. Microsoft is no stranger to communities having operated MSDN and Channel 9 for some years. However, building...
- Tags: Community, Idea, Social Media, Microsoft Corp., Craig Dewar, Social Networking, Business Structures, Balanced Scorecard, Financial Accounting, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Finance, Marketing Research, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2007-10-24
- Orkut Scrapbook Searcher (xpi)
- This adds a search box inside the orkut page for searching through scrapbooks communities. The box is context sensitive and automatically changes between searching scrapbook community threads and community thread messages. The user can search for simple strings, user names and also specify date range to search for. The help...
- Tags: Box, Community, Orkut.com, RAM, Ram Prabhu, Memory, Social Networking, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion
- Software downloads 2007-09-27
- Facebook investors start $10 million fund for developers
- In a chat with Mike Arrington at the TechCrunch 40 event in San Francisco, Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg said that his company wants to make it as easy as possible for developers to get started in building users bases and great user experiences. He announced...
- Tags: Developer, Facebook, Community, Investor, FB Fund, Dan Farber
- Blog posts 2007-09-17
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