I had an interesting brief chat this morning at eDemocracyCamp with Peter Corbett. We were talking about the power of hashtags. Most people don’t yet understand that hashtags are an extremely strategic, powerful and valuable way to inform targeted communities about related concepts, events and topics. For example, if I am attending eDemocracyCamp and hear […]
Rethinking community management
I’m at TransparencyCamp today. It’s phenomenal, exciting and overwhelming. I participated in a great session this afternoon before lunch called “Drinking from the fire hose: how is a community manager to handle citizen participation in the Web 2.0 age?’ Here are some of my thoughts inspired by this session. Social media is not about joining THE conversation, it’s […]
Online communities versus social networks
This past Monday blogger, FastCompany journalist and social media expert Marcia Connor tweeted, “So what’s *your* theory on why online communities get little press while social networks get all the buzz?” Her query was for an article or blog post that she’s working on. Here’s my take on it. In more than 140 characters. Online communities […]
