Fast Wonder: Online Community Consulting

Blogging Elsewhere

Dawn — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 18:59:19 +0000

Here is this week’s summary of links to my posts appearing on other blogs:

GigaOM’s WebWorkerDaily*

Sentiment Analysis: How Do People Feel About You On Twitter?

Intel Software Network*

Olliance Blog*

Attend Our Online Community Webinar

If you want a feed of all of my blog posts across multiple sites, you can also subscribe to my über feed.

*Disclaimers:

GigaOM’s WebWorkerDaily: I am a paid blogger for the GigaOM network.
Intel Software Network: I provide consulting services to Intel, and these blog posts are one part of my consulting engagement
Olliance Blog: I am the Senior Executive & Online Community Practice Manager at Olliance

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Olliance Online Community Webinar

Dawn — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 20:27:50 +0000

This post originally appeared on the Olliance Group blog and is reposted here.

I am excited to announce that our first Olliance webinar will be on the topic of Online Communities: The “Secret Sauce” for Today’s Competitive Businesses. On November 17th, I will be leading a discussion about defining your online community strategy, best practices for participation, and effective community content planning.

I am delighted to be joined by Bill Johnston, Chief Community Officer at Forum One, who will be sharing some research data and insights about effective online community metrics and reporting along with extending your community using social media strategies.

Attendance is limited, so please Register Now.

Logistics

Date: Tuesday, November 17, 2009
Time: 11am Pacific / 2pm Eastern
Cost: Free

More Details

Learn how top organizations are incorporating community into their strategic and tactical plans. The adoption of social networks, user forums, and message boards has never been higher, and today’s top-performing enterprises are finding ways to leverage this. The webinar will introduce you to many essential concepts:

defining your online community strategy
the right and wrong way to engage and participate in online communities
running an effective beta program with seeded content
effective content planning
identifying and implementing an effective metrics and reporting strategy
extending your community into a social media presence

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Join Us on a Party Bus from Portland to Ignite Corvallis on November 5

Dawn — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 20:06:35 +0000

I have the honor of presenting the What is Ignite talk in my favorite Oregon city (outside of Portland, of course) at Ignite Corvallis 2 on this Thursday, November 5th. The have a great list of speakers, including a couple of other Portlanders, and they are making it very easy for all of us to attend by sponsoring a party bus for the trip!

What makes it a party bus? The free beer and wifi certainly qualify it as a party bus in my book, but we also have a bunch of fun people already scheduled for the trip! We still have room on the bus, and everyone on the bus gets a free ticket to Ignite Corvallis, which is currently sold out. You can register for the bus and get all of the details about pick up and drop off times, logistics, etc. on the bus page.

The lineup:

Dawn Foster – What Is Ignite!
Ross Swartzendruber – Alcohol and Creativity: Essential ingredients for social networking IRL
Jason Prothero – Grassroots Stimulus Plan
Sean O’Brien – Digitalization and Interpreting Reality
Tamra Tilton – Brave New Travel Innovations: Surfing with Locals & WWOOFing
Ryan Gardner – How to take better pictures.
Charlie Tomlinson – Economic Gardening and the Creative Class: Place Matters
Aaron Hockley – A Glimpse Into the World of Hot, Steamy #trainporn
Break – With awesome cupcakes from: Rocket Queen Cupcakes!
Loyan Roylance – Social Media will make you better (in bed)
Katherine Cleland – Glitter, Legos, Hacksaws, Recyclables, Bandaids and Imagination
Matt Neznanski – So now you’ve overthrown the tyranny of reporters. Now what?
Jennifer Gardner – How to overcome writer’s block
Adam DuVander – Share your location: it’s not creepy, it’s the future
Scott Gilpin – A Masters Degree in 1680 Characters
Andy Vaughn – Your website sucks!

I hope to see you at Ignite Corvallis!

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Blogging Elsewhere

Dawn — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 19:00:10 +0000

Here is this week’s summary of links to my posts appearing on other blogs:

GigaOM’s WebWorkerDaily*

Is Twitter Replacing the RSS Reader?

Intel Software Network*

If you want a feed of all of my blog posts across multiple sites, you can also subscribe to my über feed.

*Disclaimers:

GigaOM’s WebWorkerDaily: I am a paid blogger for the GigaOM network.
Intel Software Network: I provide consulting services to Intel, and these blog posts are one part of my consulting engagement

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Blogging Elsewhere

Dawn — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 16:19:00 +0000

Here is this week’s summary of links to my posts appearing on other blogs:

Intel Software Network*

If you want a feed of all of my blog posts across multiple sites, you can also subscribe to my über feed.

*Disclaimers:

Intel Software Network: I provide consulting services to Intel, and these blog posts are one part of my consulting engagement.

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Blogging Elsewhere

Dawn — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 15:53:31 +0000

Here is this week’s summary of links to my posts appearing on other blogs:

Twiki Enterprise Agility Platform Blog*

Companies as Communities: Productivity Through Collaboration

Intel Software Network*

If you want a feed of all of my blog posts across multiple sites, you can also subscribe to my über feed.

*Disclaimers:

Twiki: I provide consulting services to Twiki, and this blog post is part of my consulting engagement.
Intel Software Network: I provide consulting services to Intel, and these blog posts are one part of my consulting engagement.

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Demystifying Social Media Tools and Techniques

Dawn — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 02:25:01 +0000

On Tuesday, I gave a presentation about Demystifying Social Media Tools and Techniques for the PDXTech4Good group organized as part of NTEN’s 501 Tech Club, so the presentation was targeted to nonprofit organizations. It was about a 30 to 40 minute presentation followed by 2 breakouts:

Learn more about the tools (Twitter, etc.) with Crystal Beasley
Monitoring social media sites with Dawn Foster

Here are the slides from the first part of the presentation, and you can download the full size version from SlideShare if you want a better copy than the version embedded below.

View more documents from Dawn Foster.

Monitoring Breakout Section

In the monitoring section, I shared some of my favorite tools.

Keeping up with industry news:

Find any good RSS reader and populate it with the top blogs from your industry. Netvibes and Google Reader are good choices.

Real time Twitter monitoring:

TweetDeck (my favorite): Desktop application
Monitter: Good solution if you need something browser-based
More info on real time Twitter monitoring

Find shortened links to your websites when posted on Twitter:

BackTweets: This is a fantastic tool

Advanced monitoring on the cheap:

Yahoo Pipes: More involved tool, but you can do some very advanced monitoring. I have a bunch of video and written tutorials for getting started with Yahoo Pipes.

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