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Blogging with Wordpress whilst using delicious

Some things are made easy with Wordpress. Unschool.me has been a bit of a side project. Just a blog to capture notes and buzz at the moment. I had started to collect information on things related to unschool.me on delicious by tagging them with 'unschool'. Through an RSS widget they would then ...

Got a business? Need the social web?

Schux are collaborating with Egg Box Marketing to bring a lovely, practical and down to earth series of workshops for using the social web for your own business benefit. It's called Doing Business on the Social Web. First event is on the 24th of September at Lewes Werks.

Empty forums are a no-no

There are certain things that should be done before officially launching a community. One of the most basic things is to not launch with a ghost community - ie - where there is no visible activity. This will not give people the confidence to join. I'm not sure how long Virgin ...

Old models can come back

It’s interesting to read that Dave Eggers is enthusiastic about print making a come back. As long as newspapers offer less each day- less news, less great writing, less graphic innovation, fewer photos- then they’re giving readers few reasons to pay for the paper itself. With our prototype, we aim to ...

Copycats

My younger son (aged 4) is such a copycat. He looks up to his older brother (aged 5) in adoration and will often mimic his every word and move. You may think this copycat syndrome is just for kids. It is clearly not. It’s visible all around the social web. It’s not ...

Shepherding Passionate Communities

Heather Champ, Director of Community for Flickr, shares her experiences in shepherding passionate communities at HICK Tech 2008 in Owen Sound, Ontario, Canada. In this keynote presentation Ms. Champ shows you how Flickr has learned their most valuable lessons: Own it; Don't wait; Change is hard; Avoid creating super-villains; and ...

You shouldn’t have to ask

Are you doing something good or perhaps something that people (apparently) like. Perhaps you have a cool online community. Or a very useful blog. Or sell some nice products nicely package with top customer service. Should you have to ask people to spread the word for you? I recently got asked to ...

Don’t forget the real world

The world often gets too carried away with the latest and coolest website getting all the attention. Facebook worked well initially because it was friends you already knew that you were connecting to. It probably doesn’t work as well (or is used very differently) for those that use it to keep ...

When Things Are Easy

10 years ago it was hard and expensive to create any decent kind of online presence. Now everything is so easy and minimal technical know how is needed to get things started. I remember working on projects that seemed to take forever to agree on, create and launch. They cost tens ...

Free is not the only option

There’s a perception that everything on the web has to be big and mostly free to be a success. The problem with this is that with so many online communities fighting for your attention then nothing much differentiates them and it all becomes incredibly boring and saturated. So imagine online communities: that were ...