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How to Manage Online Forums: Book Review

by Des Walsh on 11/17/2008 18:16   0 comments , 40 views
Categories: Corporate Blogging resources, Partners, Blogs & Bloggers
Tags: des walsh, managing forums, online forums, book, book review
Book cover of Managing Online Forums

Book cover via Amazon

I’ve been talking lately with a colleague about possibly setting up an online forum or community for a project we have in mind. So I had an immediately personal reason to be delighted to receive a few weeks ago a review copy of Patrick O’Keefe’s new book Managing Online Forums

Then, just over a week ago, I seized an opportunity while traveling to read it right through at one sitting.

That might not be how most peopl...

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Daily Blog Cruise Choice Posts from Des Walsh

by Des Walsh on 11/17/2008 01:06   0 comments , 44 views
Categories: Corporate Blogging resources, Partners, Blogs & Bloggers, Australia & Asia
Tags: australia, social media, social networks, marketing, survey, forrester, steven noble

 

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Twitter and other microsharing products

by David Terrar on 11/14/2008 06:02   0 comments , 70 views
Categories: Corporate Blogging resources, Blogs & Bloggers
Tags: collaboration, micro-blogging, microsharing, pistachio consulting, laura fitton

Two weeks ago I posted about a very "web 1.0" style PDF twitter guide. I actually think this concept of microblogging short messages, somewhere between IM and email as a means of team communication and collaboration is going to become increasingly important in business.  Just like with particular email services like Hotmail, although Twitter might be the best known example at the moment, there will be many services to choose from, and many softw...

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Australian Prime Minister on Twitter - Really?

by Des Walsh on 11/12/2008 18:04   0 comments , 73 views
Categories: Corporate Blogging resources, Partners, Blogs & Bloggers, Australia & Asia
Tags: australia, des walsh, social media, twitter, microblogging, prime minister, malcolm turnbull, kevin rudd
The Leader of the Federal Opposition in Australia, Malcolm Turnbull, has been on the social networking platform Twitter for about a month now, as far as I can see. That’s the real Malcolm Turnbull, who has to go by the Twitter handle of @TurnbullMalcolm on Twitter, because someone else had already taken the Twitter handle MalcolmTurnbull. Now the Australian Prime Minister, Kevin Rudd, has joined in, with the handle @KevinRuddPM on Twitter - yes ...
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Daily Blog Cruise Choice Posts

by Des Walsh on 11/12/2008 01:53   0 comments , 71 views
Categories: Corporate Blogging resources, Partners, Blogs & Bloggers, Australia & Asia
Tags: australia, des walsh, censorship, theage.com.au, biztech, netcensorship
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How Many Million Bloggers Did You Say? Shel Israel in China

by Des Walsh on 11/11/2008 21:50   0 comments , 80 views
Categories: Corporate Blogging resources, Partners, Blogs & Bloggers, Australia & Asia
Tags: des walsh, china, shel, china 2.0 tour, chinese blogger conference 2008, cnbloggercon ‘08)

Along with no doubt many, many others, I am watching with fascination Shel Israel’s unfolding adventures in the Middle Kingdom.

Chinese Blogger Conference 2008 - CNBloggercon '08For those who just came in, Shel, who has an incomparable overview of social media internationally and its impact on business and culture, is currently visiting China for the first time. He is part of the China 2.0 tour and also keynoting at the Chinese Blogger Conference 2008 (Cnbloggercon ‘08) this coming weekend, No...

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Being Practical About Your Social Media Platforms

by Des Walsh on 11/10/2008 03:23   0 comments , 94 views
Categories: Corporate Blogging resources, Partners, Blogs & Bloggers, Australia & Asia, WordFrame Platform
Tags: wordframe, linkedin, facebook, yahoo, social media, twitter, wordpress, google

B.L. Ochman has revealed her social media secret. I’m relieved and glad.

The secret is simple (and, for some social media enthusiasts, perhaps shocking):

Pick a couple of social networks – mine are Twitter and LinkedIn – and concentrate on those.

Mind you, she does check out and test new platforms as they come along and checks her RSS feeds and Google Alerts, as do I.

B.L.’s post makes me feel a whole lot better about my own practice in th...

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Building Corporate Web Communities Successfully

by Des Walsh on 11/04/2008 22:56   0 comments , 105 views
Categories: Corporate Blogging resources, Partners, Blogs & Bloggers, Australia & Asia, WordFrame Platform
Tags: collaboration, wordframe, des walsh, david terrar, corporate web communities

My WordFrame colleague David Terrar has shared his slide deck for a presentation at the recent corporate social media SOMESSO conference in Zurich, Switzerland.

In his post on the subject David is somewhat apologetic about the number of bullet points.

But they are good bullet points. There is probably a book that could be written just on the list of Recommendations in slide 21.

The emphasis is on building sustainable communities - a bigger as...

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Web Service Lists and Projections from OpenWeb Asia ‘08

by Des Walsh on 11/04/2008 01:41   0 comments , 77 views
Categories: Corporate Blogging resources, Partners, Blogs & Bloggers, Australia & Asia
Tags: des walsh, seoul, korea, web2asia, openweb asia

I mentioned some time ago that the OpenWeb Asia event, in Seoul, Korea 2008, was to focus on the social web.

The program incorporated four streams:

  • Insights and Best Practices
  • Innovations in Asia
  • Collaboration - An Introduction to Asia’s Social Web
  • East Meets West - The challenges of Internationalization To and From Asia

OpenWeb Asia '08 Today I noticed, on the asiajin site, a very interesting report on OpenWeb Asia ‘08, with the title of the post d...

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Social Media Club Brisbane is Growing

by Des Walsh on 11/03/2008 21:38   0 comments , 84 views
Categories: Corporate Blogging resources, Partners, Blogs & Bloggers, Australia & Asia
Tags: australia, des walsh, social media, brisbane

Back in March this year, I asked the question “Is Brisbane ready for a Social Media Club?”.

The answer proved to be in the affirmative. We had a preliminary gathering of interested people and then launched Social Media Club Brisbane on July 11th.

I take responsibility for the fact that in the enthusiasm of the moment we did not have an agreed plan for next steps. So until a couple of weeks ago nothing much happened.

Then we were able at short...

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