I'm spending the next two weeks meeting with Microsoft subsidiaries. I, of course, am interested in community. How do these teams view community? How do they see their conversations, online in particular, evolving over the next months and years? What...

So far so good. Here's a quote worth remembering: Quoting Pierre Levy : "No one knows everything, everyone knows something, all knowledge resides in humanity." I wonder if Pierre would be unhappy if I substituted community for humanity? I suppose we'd...

The first 27 pages. The discussion of the Catalyst -- especially in contrast to the CEO. The notion of attacking decentralization by centralizing them (if you really must act offensively) The (imho more enlightened notion) of attacking decentralization...

Jeez, social site activity up, trends up, social networking on a role. Here's a good link: http://weblogs.hitwise.com/leeann-prescott/2007/03... So I wonder if my other example of social networking -- your RSS reader -- is picking up speed equally as...

From Wikipedia: A social network is a social structure made of nodes which are generally individuals or organizations. It indicates the ways in which they are connected through various social familiarities ranging from casual acquaintance to close familial...

Their own Second Life clone as the front end to their gamer social system. If history is any teacher, we should start a poll to see how long it takes us to do something similar. Hmm, while likely accurate, it does sound like a cop out -- criticizing without...

I can't help myself. I'm bent on doing my utmost to come to some agreement on the meaning of terms under discussion. It's become top-of-mind for me recently because my group has been part of a general reorganization and the slow process of understanding...