I’m so excited about going to Austin for SXSW that I decided to share the fun by offering my Companies and Communities: Participating without being sleazy eBook for 1/2 off. You can now order it from my website for only $9.99 from now through Tuesday, March 17 using the discount code sxsw09 in the shopping cart on Fast Wonder.
For the kindle lovers in the crowd, you can get a copy of the Companies and Communities eBook for the Kindle also at the low price of $9.99 from the Amazon Kindle Store.
Here are a few interesting things from this week that I wanted to share …
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I’m still figuring out how to deal with the Magnolia aftermath, but there were a few interesting things from this week that I wanted to share …
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I’ve talked quite a bit recently about online community careers and how they are faring in this tough economy, which reminded me that I forgot to blog about the latest ForumOne Online Community Research Network study, Online Communities: Surviving & Thriving in the Downturn Economy.
The survey was conducted in late November and early December with 90 people responding to the survey, and more information about the respondents and the survey can be found on the Online Community Report blog. Here’s a summary of the key findings.
Most communities have not been negatively impacted by the economy.
For those that have been effected, the hardest areas hit included.
Communities are becoming MORE valuable to management.
When they asked:
Have your internal stakeholders (execs, management) attitudes toward the value of the online community changed because of current economic pressure?
Slightly more than half of the respondents (55%) said that their company internal stakeholder’s attitudes have changed towards the value of the online community because of the current economic pressure. For those whose stakeholder’s attitudes that had changed, over half of the respondents (55%) indicated that their internal stakeholder’s considered their online community more valuable because of the current economic pressures.
(Quoted from the Online Community Report)
The current economic issues are hitting every segment, but it’s nice to know that online communities are faring better than some other areas. This post is just a quick summary of the key points, so I encourage you to read more details on Bill Johnston’s Online Community Report blog.
I’m still figuring out how to deal with the Magnolia aftermath, but there were a few interesting things from this week that I wanted to share …
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Here is this week’s summary of links to my posts appearing on other blogs:
Shizzow
Portland Data Plumbing User Group (pdpug)
If you want a feed of all of my blog posts across multiple sites, you can also subscribe to my über feed.
I recently started a weekly summary with links to my posts appearing on other blogs. Here is this week’s update:
Shizzow
Legion of Tech
In case you missed it, here is last week’s edition of Blogging Elsewhere.
Most of you know that I have been blogging on a few different blogs, so I thought it would be good to do a weekly summary with links to my posts appearing on other blogs.
GigaOM’s WebWorkerDaily
I was looking at my Google Analytics for 2008, and I thought it would be fun to share some of the info.
Here are the top 10 posts or pages that generated the most page views for 2008:
Most of my traffic comes from the typical sources: Google, Stumbleupon, and Twitter, but I also had a fair amount of traffic from ReadWriteWeb, eLearning Technology, Silicon Florist, and Metafluence.
The most common search results included: dawn foster, best community software, mozy restore, facebook for companies, community manager, shizzow, fast wonder, mozy sucks, and blogging tips.
I also enjoying going to the end of the list to find search results that brought a single person to my blog. Here are a few of the most amusing / interesting:
OK, enough silliness for today. I hope all of you have a happy new year!
I wanted to have a way to find all of the comments posted on any of my WebWorkerDaily posts, but I couldn’t find an easy way to do it in WordPress (I don’t have access to plugins, since it isn’t my blog). As always, I turned to Yahoo Pipes for the solution, and I made it customizable so that others could use my pipe. Since I wrote this pipe for my use, it supports the configuration I needed, and I also tested it on TechCrunch, Mashable, and GigaOM. However, there were quite a few multi-user blogs where it does not work, so please pay close attention to the caveats below before using my new Comments for One Author on Multi-Author WordPress Blog pipe.
Caveats:
I suspect that the WordPress / Feedburner combo is probably the most common configuration for multi-user blogs, so it should work for many blogs. However, if you aren’t using the configuration supported by this pipe, you should be able to clone the pipe and tweak it pretty easily to use other formats.
Usage:
Please feel free to leave any thoughts or suggestions in the comments below.
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