Tag archives for community

Beer: the essential ingredient for successful community building

I don’t know if it was Bitnorth, spending the last couple of nights communing in Barcelona with other members of the internal Dell Storage community, or the tweets coming from my friend Ed Saipetch at Monktoberfest, but I have finally decided to write this post. Beer |  [ wine | $someOtherBeverage ] is an essential [...]

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Dr. Martin Luther King Day, its about building communities

Here in the US it is Dr. Martin Luther King day. It is one of our national holidays. To commemorate the day, people are encouraged to use it as a day of service, instead of a just another day off. This is because Dr. King was all about giving back, and building communities. Today many [...]

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Insiders, Outsiders, and Visitors – and what this means for community

I’ve been managing the EMC Proven Professional Community and the outlying social media ecosystem we’ve created for the community for a little over six months now. Maybe in another post I’ll talk more about what we are calling the social media “ecosystem”, but today I want to talk a little about our community. I’m so [...]

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A community to support customers must be more than customer support

I’ve been thinking about this post for a long time. I’m noticing that many businesses will set up a community for their customers, but the community never makes it any further than the customer support stage. My Verizon example I bought an HTC Incredible phone from Verizon. I’ve had Verizon service for years and years, [...]

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Blogging my homework – my first movie!

This semester I’m taking a course named Multi-Media Design and Development. Our first assignment is due tomorrow, we had to do design a lesson using a free, online animation tool. My lesson is on adding tags to community generated content. I think it is hilarious. For your enjoyment, I present “Community Alert: Solving the Case [...]

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