Comments on: Blogs and Community – launching a new paradigm for online community?

By: Revgi

Revgi — Mon, 08 Jan 2007 19:22:14 +0000

In Europe we have created http://b-r-ent.com which stands for Blog, RSS and Enterprise as the intranet manager community blog. The initial idea was to witness the integration process of these web 2.0 tools into corporations and very quickly a very thought provoquing community was born out of it.

We then looked more closely at the processes involved and we now call it nano-marketing which encompasses all the previous “1 to the masse” marketing technics, then the CRM ones with “1 to 1″ and now the NNM with “1 to 1/N” as we can not consider any consummer as 1 block but as “n” characteristics within Community of Interests as well as Community of Practises.

Have a look http://nano-marketing.eu as it is not anymore sufficient to use M Porter or even Kotler to explain what is going on in marketplaces being at the convergence of real and virtual space.

Cheers,
Gil

By: Nancy White

Nancy White — Fri, 22 Dec 2006 01:48:04 +0000

I have an attribution error in the paper! It has come to may attention that I attributed the ODI Network paper incorrectly. I apologize to Enrique Mendizabal of ODI.

The proper attribution will be corrected above, but in the meant time, it is:

Mendizabal, E., 2006, Understanding Networks: The Functions of Research Policy Networks, ODI Working Paper 271, June 2006, Overseas Development Institute. Retrieved 25 July, 2006 from http://www.odi.org.uk/Rapid/Projects/PPA0103/Functions.html

By: eraser

eraser — Tue, 19 Dec 2006 05:58:26 +0000

Congratulations . Edublogawards winner!!!

By: marnie webb

marnie webb — Wed, 27 Sep 2006 23:12:10 +0000

Very thoughtful stuff and I really love (REALLY LOVE) how the piece provides good context to be able to continue a conversation on this….

More and more I think that blog communities are emergent with heavy taggers acting as the editors — you point to that, in fact, as one of the trends. I think this interesting for a few reasons — it allows an individual (or even an individual post) to be put into different context for different communities and, it seems to me, that for many of us that’s appropriate. There are times (like the March of Dimes example) when our needs are so specific and so boundaried in and of themselves that that type of community works best but, more often, we very from technology to food to chocoloate in a single day.

By: David Brake

David Brake — Tue, 26 Sep 2006 10:08:08 +0000

Hi Nancy - a really interesting overview of the issues. Just to complicate your life a little further I would like to suggest that a group weblog (a single blog with multiple invited authors) really belongs in a category of its own - certainly from a power perspective. It offers the chance to bring in readers from a number of different constituencies but it concentrates power in the hands not of one person but of a group, whose governance principles may or may not be articulated. It offers a significant incentive for “good behaviour” or interesting posting in that posters can be ‘elevated’ to be added to the group. These are just a few of the differences between the group blog and the single hub blog by a single author.

Just my $0.02..

By: peter robertson

peter robertson — Tue, 26 Sep 2006 00:16:41 +0000

Thanx for the article Nanacy - I really like community blogging - I have tried to soldier on alone with my little unvisited blog http://learningforreal.blogspot.com but find it difficult to devote energies - reckon the idea of a group blog covering VET would be great

By: meneame.net

meneame.net — Sun, 24 Sep 2006 14:51:23 +0000

Blogs and Community – launching a new paradigm for online community?…

Está en inglés y es largo pa aburrir pero incluye el poscast del artículo y versiones descargables en word y pdf. Se trata de una reflexión de Nancy White (especialista en e-comunidades) sobre el funcionamiento de las comunidades de blogs, foros, e…

By: Roberto Bustamante

Roberto Bustamante — Thu, 21 Sep 2006 15:58:19 +0000

Congratulations Nancy. I read your article and I see things a lot clearer in my own work in Cholonautas Project (we try to make a social science community -internet based- in Perú).

I’m going to prepare my questions later.

By: David Wilcox

David Wilcox — Thu, 21 Sep 2006 11:47:43 +0000

The BBC in Manchester is helping develop a local blog community for the city
http://partnerships.typepad.com/civic/2006/09/bbc_helps_start.html

By: Antonio Fumero

Antonio Fumero — Thu, 21 Sep 2006 09:57:47 +0000

I think it’s important to notice here the declining weight of quantitative metrics in the blogosphere; it seems like the “cualitative” metrics - quite difficult to formalize - are gaining more importance in this scenario of blog communities… It’s not so import to have a huge number of comentors, visitors or “readers”, it’s a question of what kind of relatioship are you able to develop with such visitors, because we have more and more online tools and services for developing actual relationships.

I mean, the activeness is important, of course, but it’s more about apealing of the topic domain itself and the on/offline relationship you have with an eventual comentor that is considering your writing as worth reading and visiting your site.

Does all this stuff has any sense? :-)