What is an online community? whats the difference between demand-creation and demand-fulfillment? whats the difference between an online community and a social network?

What is a community?

Here you'll find resources for learning management systems, social networking communities for students and teachers, tutoring services and more.

About blogging and being social, and the new wordpress and moveable type

As a society, we are entering an increasingly narcissistic phase, enabled by web technologies - a theory that is articulated in Wired's recent cover story. As the Wired writer quips, "Like it or not, we are all public figures now - famous, as the new cliché goes, for 15 people."

is traditional blogging on its way out? Is this the future of blogging/social networks?

interesting article about how social media has been used as "social hacking" - A CNN survey regarding Russias attack on Georgia was hacked by russian sociale media, resulting in a CNN opinion poll giving 92% support for the views of the Russian Government - what does this say about the behavior of social communities?

measuring the ROI of online communities

re-inventing the message-board

"Why is Userplane getting into message boards now, when the format has seemingly been supplanted by other forms of online community? According to Product Manager Shane Hall, who I spoke with last week, Boards represents a happy medium between passive and real-time conversation."

20 free ebooks on social media

How do you sell a social media strategy to your employer? Better yet, how do you explain the benefits of social media in a business communication strategy?

About Walled Gardens and Social Networks "Unlike the global internet, which enables virtually the entire world to connect, social networks have created very large, localised communities with far more limited international interaction."

ooops! sorry... obviously I have no clue how to control the comments here on Diigo, they keep coming up, somewhere else than where I thought they would be...

@Joao: yes, I definitely think that local communities can be seen as online communities. In fact, according to Wikipedia, here online communities are described as: "Virtual communities depend upon social interaction and exchange between users online. This emphasizes the reciprocity element of the unwritten social contract between community members. Web 2.0 is essentially characterized by virtual communities such as Flickr, Facebook, and Del.icio.us. A similar trend is starting to emerge within businesses where online or virtual communities are taking hold. These communities can be organizational, regional or topical depending on the business." "Organizational, regional or topical" - I think we can add technical to this list. Btw. it seems like wiki use the terms "online" and "virtual" interchangeably. PS. Can anyone teach me how to make comments on Diigo? Why don´t comments automatically follow each other from oldest to newest? Mine seems to all be stuck together no matter what I do.

Incredible extensive source of tools, ideas, strategies for dealing with Social Media - a must read for anyone interested!

If you guys read just one of the links I bookmark, then let it be this one...

A howto guide for getting started using Twitter - probably (still) the most famous and widely used micro-blogging social media tool

Top blogger Chris Brogans ideas and tools on how to read to be able to blog

Can walled gardens continue thrive in an era of openness? Can a social network be social even though so little of the community's value is visible to the outside world? Facebook is writing this book as we speak.

There was some talk on Google Group earlier today about Walled Gardens and Facebook, so just thought I would share this..

good read for anyone interested in blogging, new as old

Maybe interesting for the amount of teachers enrolled on FOC08

The future of blogging - the arrival of Lifestreaming

If anyone should have problems with RSS - here is a great intro from Robyn Good.