Archive for the ‘Strategy’ Category

Social Tools conference: CILIP presentation

Thursday, July 12th, 2007

Lyndsay Rees-Jones (CILIP) and I presented the CILIP online membership communities story at Unicom's 'Social Tools' event in London today. It was fun. Link to presentation Link to podcast listings page of all presentations Video to come soon. Thanks to Julie Valentine of Unicom for putting the event together and David Gurteen for being ...

Community metrics from the Online Community Unconference

Tuesday, June 12th, 2007

Thanks to the Online Community Unconference organisers and attendees for opening up their wiki to those of us who couldn't make it. Sharing is caring :) I was particularly interested in the 'Community ROI' page/presentation which features some of Joe Cotherel's (Lithium) collated stats (which I re-present gratefully below), and Bill ...

Community development across multiple networks: Amnesty

Monday, June 4th, 2007

Steve Bridger and I are working together on a project for Amnesty centred around its 'Make Some Noise' movement. We are both very pleased about this as, not only are we both graduates of Development Studies, but also we get to work together (after several years of wanting to) ...

Co-designing a ‘platform’: Arts Council and Thrive

Wednesday, May 23rd, 2007

David Wilcox and I are working on a project with The Arts Council's OD Thrive! project. Our remit is to assist them with their online community. We see this as a couple of phases which weave in and out of the virtual/physical worlds: 1. Helping the project members (up to approx ...

Presenting at ‘Social Tools for Business Use’ conference

Thursday, May 3rd, 2007

Further to the success of Unicom's last Social Tools conference, Julie Valentine and the Unicom team have put together another two day London UK conference dedicated to the fast moving world of 'everything2.0'. It will take place on July 11 and 12 in London, and information about the event is on ...

We Love Ashton Court: the plot thickens

Thursday, May 3rd, 2007

Having started as a simple button to spread a viral meme around the internet, 'We Love Ashton Court Festival' has expanded to provide a brand and information support for all of the fund-raising activities ongoing around our local festival which we love very much and hope will be here in ...