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What Kind of Online Community Do You Have Behind Your Firewall?

Social Media Strategery

"We'll have our own Wikipedia!" Despite the newsletter articles, blog posts, press releases, and conference presentations, many "communities" are nothing more than a new version of the same old Intranet, only with shinier tools. Balanced, professional discussion containing constructive criticism, ideas, and empathy.

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Six degrees of separation in instant messaging | Emerging Technology Trends | ZDNet.com

Buzz Marketing for Technology

From the data, we construct a communication graph with 180 million nodes and 1.3 billion undirected edges, creating the largest social network constructed and analyzed to date. And don’t think that Horvitz is just resting and waiting for this conference. We report on multiple aspects of the dataset and synthesized graph.

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The Bamboo Project Blog

Buzz Marketing for Technology

Last week I liveblogging several conference sessions at Brandon Hall. Sending one person to a conference can potentially educate your entire organization. At last weeks Brandon Hall Conference , I remixed David Wilcox and Beth Kanters fabulous Social Media game for my workshop introducing learning professionals to Web 2.0

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Research-Driven Ideas for Social Data

Mindjumpers

Attending the European Conference of Information Systems in Tel Aviv last week, I was happy to find that areas such as data visualization, predictive analytics, social CRM and ROI etc found their way into the conference. These areas have been somewhat excluded in the past by more traditional information systems research.

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Gin, Television, and Social Surplus - Here Comes Everybody

Buzz Marketing for Technology

conference, April 23, 2008.). I started telling her about the Wikipedia article on Pluto. You may remember that Pluto got kicked out of the planet club a couple of years ago, so all of a sudden there was all of this activity on Wikipedia. Gin, Television, and Social Surplus. By Clay Shirky on April 26, 2008 10:48 AM.

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From Shared Databases to Communities of Practice: A Taxonomy of Collaboratories

Buzz Marketing for Technology

The overall goals of the SOC project were to: 1) perform a comparative analysis of collaboratory projects, 2) develop theory about this new organizational form, and 3) offer practical advice to collaboratory participants and to funding agencies about how to design and construct successful collaboratories. Technology Issues.

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7 Truths About Social Media Marketing

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Boy, those conferences must be a lot of back-slapping and link-baiting, no? You want to give me constructive criticism? Kirtsy Likaholix LinkedIn Mahalo Mento Mixx MyBlogLog MySpace Plurk Pownce Propeller Reddit SEOmoz Sphinn StumbleUpon Technorati Toluu Twitter Wikipedia Yahoo! All right, bye. Give it to me. Want some value?