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Podcast Episode 6: Online Community Management with Stormy Peters

January 20, 2008 Dawn

In this podcast, I talked to Stormy Peters, Director of Community and Partner Programs at OpenLogic. Prior to Open Logic, Stormy founded and managed the Open Source Program Office at HP. She has addressed the United Nations, European Union and various U.S. state governments on open source software, and she is a co-founder of the non-profit GNOME Foundation. We talked about a variety of topics related to managing successful open source and online communities.

Download:
Online Community Management with Stormy Peters (mp3)

If you are doing something really cool with your online community, please let me know! I am open to suggestions for potential interviews.

You can also subscribe to the Fast Wonder Community Podcast via iTunes.

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Fast Wonder Community Podcast: Data Portability and Social Networking in Online Communities with Scott Kveton

January 12, 2008 Dawn

I just published the 5th Fast Wonder Community Podcast today: Data Portability and Social Networking in Online Communities with Scott Kveton. Scott and I discussed a variety of topics related to online communities including data portability, OpenID, and social networking. Listen to the podcast to hear the entire discussion.

If you have any suggestions for people you would like to see interviewed on a future podcast, please let me know!

You can also subscribe to the Fast Wonder Community Podcast via RSS or iTunes.

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Episode 5: Data Portability and Social Networking in Online Communities with Scott Kveton

January 12, 2008 Dawn

In this podcast, I talked to Scott Kveton, who was kind enough to take 15 minutes out of atttending OpenID DevCamp to record this interview via Skype. We talked about how the impact of data portability and other open technology standards are influencing the way that we think about online communities. Scott is currently on the board of the OpenID Foundation and is the Open Technology lead at MyStrands where he does a lot of their community work. You can learn more about Scott by visiting his blog.

Download:
Data Portability and Social Networking in Online Communities with Scott Kveton (mp3)

If you are doing something really cool with your online community, please let me know! I am open to suggestions for potential interviews.

You can also subscribe to the Fast Wonder Community Podcast via iTunes.

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Community 2.0 Conference

January 9, 2008 Dawn

I wanted to let everyone know that I will be speaking at the Community 2.0 conference on May 13-14 in Las Vegas. I will be joining Silona Bonewald, Bill Johnston, and whurley on a panel about reputation systems: What Do These Points Really Mean? The Pros and Cons of Reputation Systems. If you are interested in attending, I can give you a discount code good for 20% off. A discount AND cool people talking about community AND Las Vegas … how can you beat that?

Leave a comment or send me an email to get the discount code. I hope to see you there!

clearspace, clearspace x, collaboration, community, ignite realtime, jive software, jivespace

Clearspace: Best Community Software Award from InfoWorld!

January 7, 2008 Dawn

w00t! Jive Software’s Clearspace X just won the Best Community Platform award from InfoWorld! You can read their full review on the InfoWorld site. This is no surprise to me. We power the 2 communities that I manage, Jivespace and Ignite Realtime, on Clearspace X.

Did you know that you can get a free license for Clearspace X if you are a non-commercial open source project or developer group? This is one of the cool parts of my of my job … I get to give people free software 🙂

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Episode 4: The Role of Community Managers

January 5, 2008 Dawn

This episode contains the last of four recordings made during a recent discussion I led at the December Portland Web Innovators meeting. In this podcast, I talk about the community manager role and the skills required to manage online communities.

Downloads:

Podcast: The Role of Community Managers, Episode 4 (mp3)
Presentation (pdf)

I am planning to switch to an interview format (via skype), so if you are doing something really cool with your online community, please let me know! I am open to suggestions for potential interviews.

You can also subscribe to the Fast Wonder Community Podcast via iTunes.

Related Fast Wonder Blog posts:

community, ignite portland, portland

Did You Remember to Submit Your Ignite Portland Presentation Proposal?

January 4, 2008 Dawn

We have some really amazing proposals for Ignite Portland so far, but we are looking for more!

I just submitted my proposal for Ignite Portland: What Would Dr. Seuss Say About Online Communities? Have you submitted yours?

If you had five minutes to talk to Portland what would you say? What if you only got 20 slides and they rotated automatically after 15 seconds? Launch a web site? Teach a hack? Talk about recent learnings, successes, failures? Fill out our presentation submission form to submit your talk. We are looking for talks that will inspire and teach, not recruiting or product pitches.

Portland on Fire: Meet other cool Portlanders

January 2, 2008 Dawn

Raven Zachary just launched a really cool new project yesterday, Portland on Fire: a daily discovery of PDX people. The idea is to profile one interesting person a day from Portland (not just techies, either) with information about how to connect with that person. I was lucky enough to be the second profile featured on the site.

If you are interested in participating, you can fill out the form and answer a few simple questions about yourself. You even get to choose some of the questions!

So, if you ever wanted to know what I was like as child, what my personal interests are, or what I like most about Portland, you should take a look at my profile on Portland on Fire!

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2007: Non-Stop Excitement … what about 2008?

December 31, 2007 Dawn

I thought it would be good to do a year in the life of Dawn for 2007. What the hell, everyone else is doing one, so I will jump on the trend.

As I think about 2007, I can’t help but be a bit surprised by how much fun and excitement I was able to cram into a single year!

2007: Non-Stop Excitement:

Organized a whole bunch of Portland BarCamp Meetups
Decided to sell my house in Hillsboro, and Todd and I moved to the hip (or hippie) neighborhood of Hawthorne to be within walking distance of my favorite restaurants, book stores, groceries, and more. We love it here, and it is a much better fit for us than the suburbs!
Attended my first sxsw to be on an open source panel and was also able to attend the Austin BarCamp at the same time.
Launched the Fast Wonder blog (an evolution of my older Open Culture blog, which evolved out of my Open Source culture blog) with a new look and feel and a real logo.
After leaving Intel in November of 2006, I started off in 2007 working at Compiere.
Left Compiere to join Jive Software and was surprised to see it reported on CNet.
Co-Organized the first BarCamp Portland with 250 attendees!
Organized a Technology Community Leader meetup along with attending OSBC where I was on a community panel.
Had so much fun that I organized another community leader meetup to go along with OSCON.
Jive launched Jivespace, the developer community I was hired to build!
Began doing video podcasts for Jivespace.
Went to Ohio to visit family for a few birthdays. This is where I learned (the hard way) that my family reads my blog.
Helped organize quite a few smaller community events like the Jive Show and Tell dinner and the Portland Blogger Dinner.
Wrote an article for an O’Reilly Women in Technology series.
Co-organizer for the first Ignite Portland event with ~300 people attending!
Spent Thanksgiving relaxing on the beach in Cancun
Started a weekly Fast Wonder Community Podcast (audio) series (3 episodes so far)
Getting the O’Reilly Art of Community book back on track.
Co-founded Legion of Tech, an Oregon non-profit, and currently acting as chair of the organization
Went back to Ohio for just a couple of days to hang out with family over Christmas, and I’m still trying to catch up on email!

Now what? How in the hell am I going to top that in 2008?

Achieve 501(c)(3) status for Legion of Tech?
Get O’Reilly Art of Community book published?
Help organize a bunch of other community events in Portland?
Improve Jivespace to make it a really kick-ass developer community?
Ultimately, I want to do something spectacular enough that it prompts someone to write a Wikipedia article for me. 🙂

Have a Happy New Year!

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Fast Wonder Community Podcast: Approaches to Online Community Structure

December 29, 2007 Dawn

I released the third Fast Wonder Community Podcast today, Approaches to Online Community Structure. In this podcast, we talk about how to best structure a new community and how to evolve the structure over time as the community evolves. I started by discussing the pros and cons of three approaches: emergent, highly structured, and adaptive. Listen to the podcast to learn more.

If you have any suggestions for people you would like to see interviewed on a future podcast, please let me know!

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