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W+K PORTLAND · Communities of Yes
It was a little lazy, letting the angry kids dictate how & where we talked to each other. Haters Gonna Hate is not a sound social design strategy.
via:vanderwal  community 
january 2011 by vielmetti
Lessons Learned from Digg: A Story of Love and Hate
Community migrations happen almost constantly due to the ebb and flow of the net. Digg’s loss of user base is just a very high-profile occurrence. I’m here to argue that Digg’s not done just yet — and on top of that, this whole thing started long before Digg v4.
digg  reddit  community  migration  how-can-you-keep-on-moving-unless-you-migrate-too 
september 2010 by vielmetti
Some Community Tips for 2007 | fortuitous
If I had to give a reason why most newspaper blogs are filled with cranky screeds posted anonymously, I'd have to say having a generic blank comment form is key. Most every community that I contribute to offers a comprehensive user profile/history page, letting members customize to their hearts content and allow their profile to reflect their personality. When I think of mainstream news, TV, and newspaper sites trying to solicit comments from readers, I've yet to find something close to even a basic community site. The New York Times requires me to register to read most stories, but their blog system gives me a blank generic comment form when I want to comment on a blog post.
design  community  howto  mefi  newspaper  party-like-its-2007 
july 2009 by vielmetti
The Local vs. Localism: Hyperlocal Media Wars | Notorious R.O.B. - Conversations on Marketing, Technology, Real Estate
Localism ain’t it, unless it undergoes a total transformation of focus away from trying to sell real estate. The Local ain’t it, unless it too undergoes a transformation and embraces the community on which it is reporting — and in fact, actually does some, you know, reporting. The answer may be in social media, like MaplewoodOnline and Baristanet, as more and more journalists leave the newspaper business (by choice or not) and end up having to learn whole new skills in web-based, local, community-powered media.
localism  hyperlocal  hyper-fricking-local  news  journalism  community  media 
june 2009 by vielmetti
The imperative of localism and local news | Howard Owens
Once people could no longer pick up the local gazette and find out who was visiting from California and when Helen Carter was going to sell her famous peach pies, the papers became less relevant to their lives.

Without that relevancy, society and democracy suffered. People became not only less informed, but less involved in their communities.

Consider that 57 percent of Americans say that if their local newspaper went away, both online and in print, they wouldn't miss it and it wouldn't hurt the civic life of their towns. The numbers are just as dismal when the question is isolated just to regular newspaper readers. This is in keeping with an earlier Harris poll that found nearly two-thirds of Americans say their local newspaper doesn't serve its community well.
community  local  newspapers  hyperlocal  hyper-fricking-local 
june 2009 by vielmetti
Gawker - Why Newspapers Shouldn't Allow Comments - Media
Newspapers have more important things to do than worry about comments—like, say, report the stories that blogs so desperately need in their 24-7 quest for content! After all, blogs are often not equipped to regularly break the news, and we need content to chew on.

As Arthur Sulzberger's relation Benjamin Dolnick lamented in the comments section of Carr's NYT story (noticed by Choire Sicha at Radar): "If you ever want to lose faith in humanity, read any comments section on the internet."

P.S. Also, nobody wants to hear the tired old "free speech" argument as a defense of comments. We've had free speech in this country for well over two hundred years, long before it was ever an option to comment on newspaper websites and blogs.
community  comments  newspaper  gawker 
june 2009 by vielmetti
It's time for the newspaper industry to die
Nowhere in the comments section, however, did readers hear anything from a staffer at the Tribune. No one with that authority stepped in to admonish the rude, correct those who posted wrong information, or to respond to those who had questions about the story. Without that leadership, the Tribune lost the opportunity to forge a community based on these readers' common interest in this engaging story. Readers were left just to argue among themselves.
newspaper  comments  community 
june 2009 by vielmetti
If you're not doing comments right, you shouldn't do them at all | Howard Owens
This issue came up on the Online-News discussion list this week, so I know many newspapers are struggling with comment management at the moment. It also came to a head this week in Batavia, where the Daily News was hit by a particularly ugly comment thread in which a socket puppet attacked fellow elected officials, one politician is posing as a defender of said politician, and a community activist brought to light unfounded allegations against a city councilman (I won't dignify the charge by repeating it here, and because I know these people, it's pretty easy to figure out who's who).
newspaper  comments  community 
june 2009 by vielmetti
Derek Powazek - 10 Ways Newspapers Can Improve Comments
So, instead of just poking him for sounding like Grandpa Simpson, I’d like to help fix the problem. Here are ten things newspapers could do, right now, to improve the quality of the comments on their sites. (There are lots more, but you know how newspaper editors can’t resist a top ten list.)
newspaper  comments  community  howto 
june 2009 by vielmetti
Community leaders spearhead Ann Arbor Region Success Strategy -
Rick Snyder is tired of action plans and grassroots committees that don't accomplish anything.
annarbor  michigan  leadership  community  snyder  rick 
january 2009 by vielmetti
Mr. Wendell Berry of Kentucky
During the otherwise quiet course of his life as a poet, Wendell Berry has become mad at what contemporary society has made of its land, its communities, and its past. This anger reaches its peak in the poems of the Mad Farmer, an open-ended sequence he's found himself impelled to continue against his better instincts. These poems can take the shape of manifestos, meditations, insults, Whitmanic fits and ravings--and are often funny in spite of themselves. The Mad Farmer is a character as necessary, perhaps, as he is regrettable. Here are gathered the individual poems from Berry's various collections to offer the teachings and bitcheries of this amazing American voice. After the great success of the lovely Window Poems, Bob Baris of the Press on Scroll Road returns to design and produce an edition illustrated with etchings by Abigail Rover.
berry  wendell  kentucky  poetry  politics  farming  essays  community  writing 
december 2008 by vielmetti
squareONE explorations » Blog Archive » OBSERVING THE OBSERVER - NOT!
Community newspapers can really raise a high velocity and high volume ruckus. The key point here is that–what I’ll term–the community consciousness model is itself the product of local journalists really having a stake in the community, of their direct engagement, and subjectivity rather than objectivity. This is contrasted with The Plain Dealer’s stake being quite different, more professional, more detached, and resulting in ‘just another story’ at a scale oriented toward a wide readership as opposed to a local, (or micro,) readership.
community  journalism  ruckus  havoc  activism  community-consciousness  cleveland 
december 2008 by vielmetti
Ethan Zuckerman on how to engineer serendipity online | csmonitor.com
two related problems here. serendipity takes a lot of time, and it doesn't have a neat precise ROI. some systems manage to inject enough ambient random interestingness - e.g. facebook, twitter, delicious - where you view a stream of things that are related to people you know, but not necessarily things you were searching for. alas, only non-serindipitous search has been precisely monetized.
via:mcw  zuckerman  ethan  social-engineering-will-get-you-what-you-want  serendipity  design  architecture  interaction-design  community  community_indicators 
december 2008 by vielmetti
Communities plan for a low-energy future | csmonitor.com
Transition Towns (or districts, or islands) designate places where local groups have organized to embrace the challenge of adapting to a low-oil economy. As the movement’s website (www.transitiontowns.org) states, it’s an experiment in grass-roots optimism: Can motivated citizens rouse their neighbors to act in the face of diminished oil resources and climate change?
community  neighborhood  localism  environment 
december 2008 by vielmetti
Surface area to volume ratio - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In chemical reactions involving a solid material, the surface area to volume ratio is an important factor for the reactivity, that is, the rate at which the chemical reaction will proceed. In some industries it is abbreviated sa/vol.
network  community  structure  conductance 
december 2008 by vielmetti
It is a matter of common experience that communities exist in networks ... Although not precisely defined, communities are usually thought of as sets of nodes with better connections amongst its members than with the rest of the world. - Google Search
network structure of communities
community  network  structure  network-weaving  clustering 
december 2008 by vielmetti
Give List
Times are tight. We know, we know. We've all seen the scary headlines. Too many of the scary headlines. And we're all feeling the pressure in other ways too.
But, still, we want to contribute what we can to making the world the better place.
The GiveList gives you ideas and inspiration for just that: ways that you contribute without spending or buying. Or maybe giving while buying and spending a little less than usual.
community  socialmedia  sustainability  philanthropy  giving  givelist 
december 2008 by vielmetti
Google Friend Connect: Add social features to your site
Grow traffic by adding social features to your site

Google Friend Connect means more people engaging more deeply with your website -- and with each other.


Set up a new site

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Enrich your site
Choose engaging social features from a catalog of gadgets by Google and the OpenSocial developer community.

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Attract more visitors
Your users can easily invite friends from social networks and contact lists to visit and join your site.

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No programming whatsoever
Just copy and paste a few snippets of code into your site, and Friend Connect does the rest.
google  community  orkut-two-point-naught  openid  yasns 
december 2008 by vielmetti
Creating Entrepreneurial Communities
Creating Entrepreneurial Communities Conference

Wednesday, November 19, 2008
Lansing Center, Lansing, Mich.

Join us for Tuesday, November 18, from 5:30 to 8 p.m. for a pre-conference reception with our featured speakers. There will be light refreshments and a cash bar.
michigan  community  entreprenuer  bizdev  economicdevelopment 
december 2008 by vielmetti
'The Tyranny of Structurelessness' by Jo Freeman
Contrary to what we would like to believe, there is no such thing as a 'structureless' group. Any group of people of whatever nature coming together for any length of time, for any purpose, will inevitably structure itself in some fashion. The structure may be flexible, it may vary over time, it may evenly or unevenly distribute tasks, power and resources over the members of the group. But it will be formed regardless of the abilities, personalities and intentions of the people involved. The very fact that we are individuals with different talents, predisposition's and backgrounds makes this inevitable. Only if we refused to relate or interact on any basis whatsoever could we approximate 'structurelessness' and that is not the nature of a human group.
community  organization  sociology  org-studies  organizational-studies 
december 2008 by vielmetti
H.U.N.I. - Highland United Neighbors, Inc.
We are vibrant neighborhood with tremendous diversity in household make-up, economics and ethnicity. All Highlands residents have one thing in common, we love our neighborhood with an unparalled passion. In Highland you get the feel of small town, old world charm, proximity to the “big city” and award-winning restaurants and shopping - all within walking distance!
denver  neighborhood  community  colorado 
november 2008 by vielmetti
QUT | ePrints Archive - Handbook of Research on Urban Informatics: The Practice and Promise of the Real-Time City
I hope that this book will stimulate your mental metabolism with a rich and multi-faceted degustation menu. Sampling the 'dishes' prepared for this urban smorgasbord will take you on a tour de force covering a great range of timely and significant topics and issues such as sustainability, digital identity, surveillance, privacy, access, environmental impact, activism, participatory planning, and community engagement. The book exposes research accounts which seek to convey an appreciation for local differences, for the empowerment of people and for the human-centred design of urban technology. Both contributors and coverage are international. They are not limited to cases based in Europe and America only. Rather, I purposefully sourced chapters covering Asia, Africa and Australia by a most engaging and prolific group of authors not afraid of presenting challenging and controversial ideas.
books  community  mobile  urban  book  informatics  cities 
november 2008 by vielmetti
Is Community Informatics Good For Communities? Randy Stoecker
Additionally, there remains a gap between those who are good at community development but not good at information and communication technology and those who are good at information and communication technology but not good at community development. There is also a misperception in much of the field that it is the technology side that is really complicated, requiring a great deal of mystical expertise, while running a community meeting to plan a project requires no training at all. It is, in fact, quite the reverse. The reason so many community informatics projects operate with only small numbers of community participants is not that community members don’t care about such projects, but that those of us organizing the projects are so bad at recruiting, involving, and empowering them. If you can’t get 100 people involved in a community informatics project then you probably need training in how to organize, involve, excite, and empower people.
community  community-organizer  community_informatics  stoecker  stoecker  randy  community_indicators 
november 2008 by vielmetti
Community Organizer = Community Outreach Minister | island94
You all don’t know your lingo. A community organizer is the same thing as an community outreach minister in a church. The former is yankee and the latter is southern. The last church I belonged to did exactly what a community organizer does: got the (church) community to put a roof on an elderly (poor) lady’s house, put a floor in a poor man’s trailer, clothed a family whose home had burned down, and organized a group of families who lived on a dirt road to petition their senator for C-funds to pave the road so that the school bus could come up it and get their children. So what is your problem? Ignorance?
community  community-organizer  community-outreach-minister  identity  religion 
november 2008 by vielmetti
Laurel Papworth -Social Networks
social media (mostly in the advertising sense) from Australia
blog  community  papworth  laurel  australia  socialmedia  marketing  advertising 
november 2008 by vielmetti
A Mobile Voice: The Use of Mobile Phones in Citizen Media ...
In this report we explore the dynamics of the role of mobile phones in enhancing access to and creating information and citizen-produced media. We explore trends in the use of mobile telephony with a focus on software and platforms that make content creation and broadcasting easier. We also present an inventory of current and potential uses of
mobile phones to promote citizen media and freedom of information, and present short case studies of examples--all from the MobileActive.org community.
nptech  community  media  news  journalism  mobile  research  survey  embedded-microcorrespondent 
november 2008 by vielmetti
Alan’s Kiloblog » GitHub and Git: Sharing Your Code, for What It’s Worth, Without a Begging Entry into Open Source Communities
Best of all, I don’t have to run the gauntlet of anti-social software developers displaying passive-agressive behavior (such as saying dismissive and insulting things to strangers accompanied by smilies.)
community  git  github  via:alan 
november 2008 by vielmetti
Social Actions | Find Social Actions. Create Social Change.
Social Actions connects individuals with opportunities to take action in an effort to increase the scope and impact of the citizen sector.
community  marketing  socialmedia  aggregator 
november 2008 by vielmetti
Does bacon get any better than this? :: CHICAGO SUN-TIMES :: Food
"All true religions have to have some monthly faith meeting," says one employee, when asked about the purpose of the bottomless bacon bowl.
bacon  community  faith  ritual  its-bacon  six-degrees-of-chicken-fried-bacon 
november 2008 by vielmetti
The Gospel of Consumption | Orion Magazine
There was, for a time, a visionary alternative. In 1930 Kellogg Company, the world’s leading producer of ready-to-eat cereal, announced that all of its nearly fifteen hundred workers would move from an eight-hour to a six-hour workday. Company president Lewis Brown and owner W. K. Kellogg noted that if the company ran “four six-hour shifts . . . instead of three eight-hour shifts, this will give work and paychecks to the heads of three hundred more families in Battle Creek.”
battlecreek  michigan  kellogg  community  party-like-its-1930  history  marketing  work  lifestyle  consumerism  consumer 
november 2008 by vielmetti
Rough Type: Nicholas Carr's Blog: Who killed the blogosphere?
death of the blog predicted, film at 11
blog  community  history  twitter  weblogs  blogging  blogosphere  its-not-dead-yet  film-at-11 
november 2008 by vielmetti
Joe Cothrel's Tumblr - Sounds like you have a community up and running...
Sounds like you have a community up and running and want to get others in the company more engaged. Three things I’d recommend:

* Harvest some customer opinions from the community and pass them around the organization — most people really want to hear what customers are saying.
* Communities are often one of the largest drivers of traffic to the company website — do some analysis on your site’s web traffic to show people how much traffic your community drives.
* Publish a weekly report that…
community  analysis  community_indicators  feedback 
november 2008 by vielmetti
bkkeepr | About
keep track of books you read with bkkeepr; needs only a scanner to make automagical; has an api
books  community  twitter  isbn 
october 2008 by vielmetti
Housing Blogs Throw Stones - WSJ.com
Last summer, posters grew so "aggressively rude" at Brooklyn blog Brownstoner.com that founder Jonathan Butler began requiring every user to register with the site before they could post. "It got to the point where I couldn't leave my desk for half an hour," says Mr. Butler, who deletes inappropriate posts on his site.
brownstoner  brooklyn  butler  jonathan  community  moderation  community_indicators 
october 2008 by vielmetti
Brownstoner: Real Estate Blogs "A Great Forum to Vent Anger"
The Wall Street Journal delves into the world of real estate blogs this morning, with a focus on their commenting culture, to see how they're faring as the housing crisis continues. "Thanks to the housing crisis, real-estate blogs are blooming not only in number, but in nastiness, as thousands of strangers swap stinging critiques of high-end homes hitting the market." The paper looks at the fallout from the jabs, citing one house seller who tuned in to Brownstoner and saw his property getting the royal treatment, from us and from the commenters, alike. "Readers quickly chimed in, citing overuse of track lighting and black granite and calling the border on the bathtub 'hideous' and the furniture 'cheesy,'" they write. "'They're probably hipsters — people who live really grungy,' counters Dr. Fernandez, noting that the bathroom tiles are handmade and the 'cheesy' furniture cost over $100,000."
brownstoner  brooklyn  realestate  blog  forum  community  not-the-same-since-the-dodgers-left 
october 2008 by vielmetti
Ton's Interdependent Thoughts: Social Software Works In Triangles
2006 article on how various systems let you pivot from place to place along legs of a triangle (still thinking this through myself)
community  triangulation  triangles  triples  tuples  delicious  plazes  flickr  tags 
october 2008 by vielmetti
Post No 1: Access Points
And there are other remarkable things about this initiative… I didn’t hire one person to make this happen!

My staff readjusted their workload to make it happen. They are a truly committed team. We didn’t buy one single new computer. Washtenaw County IT department donated computers from their "technology graveyard". We learned to do more with less.

The volunteers are so great at the Access Points we dub them Ambassadors. USDOL came out for a visit, and gave them and the County Commissioners recognitions and awards as well as a small Performance for Excellence Grant as being an outstanding leader in the field.

We are now taking this to the B-side --getting "business" involved and committed. The Ambassadors meet bi-monthly to review and evaluate its goals and get technical assistance from community specialists. Diane Keller, CEO, Ypsilanti Chamber of Commerce visited the Ambassadors to talk about business involvement in the community.
rusher  trenda  community  economicdevelopment  business  access-points  huh  annarbor  ypsilanti  michigan  washtenaw 
september 2008 by vielmetti
Community Metrics at OpenSolaris.org
OpenSolaris.org Community Statistics as of August 1st 2008 NB. These metrics do not relate to activity on OpenSolaris.com
opensource  stats  community_indicators  metrics  community 
september 2008 by vielmetti
Measuring Community | jonobacon@home
typical example is the upstream report in Launchpad which we are readying for beta right now - I will have more details on this soon when it is complete. The upstream report shows a bunch of upstream projects, the number of open bugs, the number of bugs with upstream activities (this means the bug is likely to be an upstream bug), and the number of bugs with upstream watches (a known upstream bug that is linked to the Ubuntu bug). This provides us with useful data for which upstreams need most focus. We are currently getting some additional features into the report for colour coding, sorting the results and removing dupes. Bugs are a metric, they are a mechanic - they are the nuts and bolts of the software development process, and we measure them closely.
community  community_indicators  bugs  metrics  bug-collecting  cyberentomology 
september 2008 by vielmetti
NAFEX
The North American Fruit Explorers (NAFEX) is a network of individuals throughout the United States and Canada devoted to the discovery, cultivation and appreciation of superior varieties of fruits and nuts. Founded in 1967 by a small group of pomological hobbyists, NAFEX has grown to an organization of more than 3,000 members, and is chartered as a nonprofit organization in the state of Illinois. Although the ranks of our membership include professional pomologists, nurserymen, and commercial orchardists, NAFEX members are all AMATEURS in the truest sense of the word; they are motivated by their LOVE of fine fruit.
food  community  research  agriculture  gardening  farm  fruit  ubifarm  pawpaw 
september 2008 by vielmetti
On whuffie, social capital, and social climbing — CECILY.info
I don’t know if this is a factor of my rapidly advancing age and my increasing inability to suffer what I consider to be foolish behavior gladly, but this isn’t the social community I want to be a part of. I want to be part of a community where people are willing to share their expertise so that we all get better. I want to be part of a community that mimics that hoary old cliche about rising tides that lift all boats. I think this is why, now that I’m working in a library, I feel I’m finally surrounded by people who understand the benefit of the collective we, and how our societies — physical and virtual — are made stronger by nurturing a commonwealth of ideas where those who have access feel a sense of responsibility to those who don’t.
community  socialmedia  attention  bubble  socialcapital  rant  whuffie  synthetic-whuffie  social-network-analysis  social-media-metrics 
september 2008 by vielmetti
Technology Review: How Obama Really Did It
Of course, many of the 2008 candidates had websites, click-to-donate tools, and social-networking features--even John McCain, who does not personally use e-mail. But the Obama team put such technologies at the center of its campaign--among other things, recruiting 24-year-old Chris Hughes, cofounder of Facebook, to help develop them. And it managed those tools well. Supporters had considerable discretion to use MyBO to organize on their own; the campaign did not micromanage but struck a balance between top-down control and anarchy. In short, Obama, the former Chicago community organizer, created the ultimate online political machine.
community  socialmedia  politics  social  campaigning  obama  barack  hughes  chris  the-party-knows-where-you-live 
august 2008 by vielmetti
DataPlace
The relevant statistics you need, the simple delivery you want
design  community  maps  neogeography  visualization  map  mashup  demographics  census  population 
august 2008 by vielmetti
HighTouch: They aren't your communities to manage
So, let's return to the concept of the community manager. Whose "community" is it to manage? The people in your organization may be a part of a community, may have even participated in birthing it, may even be trusted members, but to think they occupy any special super-node is nothing short of delusional. Does making someone responsible for these functions absolve others in your organization from active participation? It's not a community if everyone doesn't feel free to participate as an equal. As soon as you make this someone's job you devalue the contributions of everyone. I'm thinking the whole concept of a "community manager" is a very bad idea.
community  marketing  management  community_indicators  socialnetwork  onlinecommunity  whose-community-is-it-to-manage 
august 2008 by vielmetti
Just do - Steve Snow's letter to UK networkers
Make friends, forget enemies. Collaborate with any group that will have you and wants to work together. That will vary from community to community, so the model to copy is the process, not the organizations. Natural collaborations will surface. Make the most of them. Conversely, be nice to those who would undermine you but stay away from them; they will bring negative energy you can ill afford.
community  friends  be-nice-stay-away 
august 2008 by vielmetti
The Dude Dean SEO | SEM | CMS | UX | PHP: Cost of Winning A Macbook Air - The Whuffie Factor
What is social capital? My 474 friends on Myspace, my 320 friends on Multiply, my 309 followers on Twitter, my 146 Followers Plurk, my 538 friends Iconbuffet and my 234 friends Facebook. This is the Whuffie Factor I had in my favor. 1547 or so people (some are dupes), that is about a dollar a person. All my years of social spelunking paid off in the form of Whuffie.
community  marketing  management  socialcapital  whats-a-friend-worth-if-they-wont-click-on-your-ads  a-friend-is-worth-about-a-dollar 
august 2008 by vielmetti
Voice in the Wilderness
Today, Gannon's online county news service, the Rappahannock Voice, which launched in October 2006, gets about 3,500 unique visitors each month – in a county that only has a population of about 7,200. It provides coverage of "issues that are of real concern here," Gannon says, like property taxes, land use and zoning issues. Most of the site's content is Gannon's own, the product of his attending meetings and keeping an eye on the small-town economy, but he also taps community volunteers for commentary and local sports coverage.
community  media  journalism  wordpress  diy  online  newspapers  virginia  rappahannock 
august 2008 by vielmetti
TechShop is the SF Bay Area's Only Open-Access Public Workshop -- Welcome
TechShop is a fully-equipped open-access workshop and creative environment that lets you drop in any time and work on your own projects at your own pace. It is like a health club with tools and equipment instead of exercise equipment...or a Kinko's for geeks.
TechShop was founded in 2006 by Jim Newton, a lifetime maker, veteran BattleBots builder and former MythBuster. TechShop is located in Menlo Park, California, on the San Francisco peninsula 25 miles south of San Francisco.
newton  jim  yitan  design  howto  community  hacks  diy  make  fabrication  techshop  hacking  workshop 
august 2008 by vielmetti
Inexpensive Ways To Change a Library
Essential reading: William H. Whyte, The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces, Washington, D.C.: The Conservation Foundation, 1980; "11 Principles for Creating Great Community Places" http://www.pps.org/info/placemakingtools/casesforplaces/11steps ; Paco Underhill, Why We Buy: The Science of Shopping
library  libraries  community  marketing  todo  todo:blog  superpatron  facilities 
august 2008 by vielmetti
Introduction to Social Network Methods: Table of Contents
This on-line textbook introduces many of the basics of formal approaches to the analysis of social networks. The text relies heavily on the work of Freeman, Borgatti, and Everett (the authors of the UCINET software package). The materials here, and their organization, were also very strongly influenced by the text of Wasserman and Faust, and by a graduate seminar conducted by Professor Phillip Bonacich at UCLA. Many other users have also made very helpful comments and suggestions based on the first version. Errors and omissions, of course, are the responsibility of the authors.
books  community  research  networks  reference  social  socialsoftware  socnet  sna  sociology  social-network-analysis  ucinet  hanneman  robert 
august 2008 by vielmetti
Arbor Update
community news blog/forum run by an autonomous collective; mostly informed and informative dialog of issues of the day around town.
community  community_indicators  annarbor  michigan  journalism  citizen-media  blog  all-politics-is-local 
august 2008 by vielmetti
Community Server
Telligent Community Server is the proven enterprise social platform of choice. Trusted by Microsoft, Dell, MySpace and Intel (just to name a few), our proven social software powers some of the largest and most demanding online communities in the world.

Community Server provides proven ROI and is built on Microsoft .NET 2.0 technology. With an integrated platform used in countless enterprise engagements, Community Server has been proven in the marketplace time and time again.

Community Server delivers enterprise-ready social networks and online communities... and will do the same for you.
blog  design  community  web2.0  socialsoftware  webdesign  cms  sharepoint  forum  socialnetworking  enterprise2.0  communities  le-roi-c-est-moi 
august 2008 by vielmetti
[0712.2716] Community Structure in Graphs
Graph vertices are often organized into groups that seem to live fairly independently of the rest of the graph, with which they share but a few edges, whereas the relationships between group members are stronger, as shown by the large number of mutual connections. Such groups of vertices, or communities, can be considered as independent compartments of a graph. Detecting communities is of great importance in sociology, biology and computer science, disciplines where systems are often represented as graphs. The task is very hard, though, both conceptually, due to the ambiguity in the definition of community and in the discrimination of different partitions and practically, because algorithms must find ``good'' partitions among an exponentially large number of them. Other complications are represented by the possible occurrence of hierarchies, i.e. communities which are nested inside larger communities,
community  review  paper  network  graphtheory  socnet 
august 2008 by vielmetti
Forvo: the pronunciation guide. All the words in the world pronounced by native speakers
116.199 words 30.589 pronunciations 189 languages
pronunciation  language  text-to-speech  idiomas  resources  pronuncia  pronounce  dictionary  pronouncing-dictionary  awesome  community 
august 2008 by vielmetti
Communities Demand a Strong Leadership | Memes.org: Mind Viruses
What every successful community requires is community leadership. Community leadership can be organic and emergent or they can be hired in the form of online community managers or facilitators. A strong leadership — people who have skin in the game — is more important than a good web application; also, these community leaders are often the main draw to the community and can be the difference between keeping or losing your members when a competitor comes to town.
community  leadership  via:choconancy  community_indicators 
august 2008 by vielmetti
The community spirit of Yahoo's Fake - CNET News
You need to have a culture and mores and a sense of this is "what people do here." If people greet each other and are helpful, and stomp on trolls immediately and keep the trash in the trash cans, that becomes what the culture of the place is. And that sc
2007  community  interview  fake  caterina  flickr  oates  george  the-burden-of-diligence 
july 2008 by vielmetti
pandora's vox: on community in cyberspace
i suspect that cyberspace exists because it is the purest manifestation of the mass (masse) as Jean Beaudrilliard described it. it is a black hole; it absorbs energy and personality and then re-presents it as spectacle.
party-like-its-1994  community  cyberspace  identity  attention 
july 2008 by vielmetti
Anarchogeek: The ascendancy of Hacker News & the gentrification of geek news communities
That’s the attraction of the SEO / SEM world. They’re not respected by true hackers, but they are huge, and they come in and destroy communities like reddit.
seo-destroys-community  death-of-the-net  film-at-11  death-by-success  community  culture  internet  media 
july 2008 by vielmetti
Kevin Kelly — Scenius: intelligence and intuition of a whole cultural scene, the communal form of genius
Let it remain inefficient, wasteful, edgy, marginal, in the basement, downtown, in the 'burbs, in the hotel ballroom, on the fringes, out back, in Camp 4.
community  creativity  learning 
june 2008 by vielmetti
Cassier's Magazine: "Widening Application of the Telephone"
more history of communications technology and its use
telephone  community  customs  communication  via:vaguery 
april 2008 by vielmetti
community - a review of the theory
We explore the development of theory around community, and the significance of boundaries, social networks and social norms - and why attention to social capital and communion may be important.
a2b3  community  society  theory  socnet  literature-review 
april 2008 by vielmetti
Can NOT participating in communities = Participation : Community Group Therapy
they too serve who only sit and lurk
participation  community  watchful-waiting  community_indicators  engagement  socialmedia 
march 2008 by vielmetti
The Community Network Solution
Because the map shows networks rather than hierarchical standing, it is innately more community-enabling than a list, which automatically orders people into rankings or disconnected categories.
people  community  networks  maps  organization  organizing  community_indicators  ona-prac 
march 2008 by vielmetti
Axioms for (Online) Organizers « The Full Plate
how to organize online, derived from community organizing efforts
organization  organizing  community  lists  pnb 
march 2008 by vielmetti
Headshift :: Boring technology can become socially interesting
"every URL is a latent community"
2008  community  boring-is-the-new-interesting  activism 
march 2008 by vielmetti
Twitter / erica g: "every URL is a latent community".
and, with this, we launch the community associated with this URL.
community  twitter  via:ericagee  implicit  latent 
february 2008 by vielmetti
globeandmail.com: Time to break the town-and-gown barrier
It's more common for regions to export technology their universities create.
academia  community  creativity  culture  development  economics  innovation  university  richard-florida  town  gown  people-are-our-best-export 
february 2008 by vielmetti
East-cross.com » The Wireless Cool City (Reprise)
Ypsilanti has a Meraki network up and running. Where are the high spots we need to hit to get it extended all the way to Ann Arbor?
wireless  ypsi  ypsiarbor  ypsilanti  meraki  wifi  mesh  networks  cic  community  infrastructure 
february 2008 by vielmetti
Why Yahoo! Answers is a librarian's worst nightmare. - By Jacob Leibenluft - Slate Magazine
on the horrific crap in yahoo answers; compare e.g. with ask metafilter which is more better
community  yahoo  yahoo-answers  ask-jessamyn  she-knows-better 
december 2007 by vielmetti
Caring.com: Helping you help your parents
eldercare site (in the style of babycenter)
aging  community  eldercare  elderly  family  health  help  insurance  lifehacks  medical  networking  medicare  old  parents  reference  reviews  social  socialnetwork  socialsoftware  toread 
december 2007 by vielmetti
Smart Experience -- Internet, Mobile, and Software Classes in New York City
Smart Experience offers Internet, mobile, and software classes in New York City. (Note to self, steal this idea)
nyc  usability  community  steal-this-idea 
december 2007 by vielmetti
NEWCITYCHICAGO.COM: Street Smart Chicago
independent coffee shops in chicago
chicago  coffee  community  design  guide  indie 
november 2007 by vielmetti
Five museums and five libraries have been selected for the 2007 National Medal for Museum and Library Service,
library  museum  community  award  superpatron 
november 2007 by vielmetti
OpenSocial - Google Code
ok a2b3 people build me a network
****  api  awesome  code  community  goog  teh-goog  socialgraph  socialmedia  socialnetwork  a2b3 
november 2007 by vielmetti
dux07 - conference on designing for user experience
i'll be speaking there
2007  chicago  conference  community  conferences  culture  design  ethnography  event  internet  technology  user  ux 
october 2007 by vielmetti
CERT - CERT for state - Michigan
Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) coordinators for Michigan
michigan  emergency  community  community_indicators  community_informatics 
october 2007 by vielmetti
Community Emergency Response Team (CERT)
The Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) Program educates people about disaster preparedness for hazards that may impact their area and trains them in basic disaster response skills, such as fire safety, light search and rescue, team organization, and
city  cert  collaboration  community  crowdsourcing  disaster  earthquake  emergency  fire  local  logistics  planning  preparedness 
october 2007 by vielmetti
Pecha Kucha: Get to the PowerPoint in 20 Slides
20 slides, 20 seconds per slide; a talk about signage from Daniel Pink for Wired Magazine
daniel-pink  semiotics  pecha-kucha  community  content  design  digital  emotion  powerpoint  presentation  presentations  sign  slides  social  video  videos  wired  youtube 
october 2007 by vielmetti
Libraries Build Communities
This survey is part of our research for Inside, Outside, and Online, a book about libraries and community building, to be published by ALA Editions. You can learn more about our project at Libraries Build Communities.
library  community  survey  superpatron 
october 2007 by vielmetti
A2 GIS
A blog for the Ann Arbor GIS community - The A2GIS group is forming to promote understanding, idea exchange, and problem solving assistance in the greater Ann Arbor GIS community.
annarbor  blog  geo  gis  community  local  neogeography  michigan  a2gis 
october 2007 by vielmetti
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