Tag Archives: SiftGroups

Essential online community blog posts of 2009

My blog posts of 2009, from how to reward top contributors to discussion about community metrics to grow your community, bullet pointed for you below. Here’s to a successful 2010 with more thoughts on online community, & with a special eye out for enterprises investing in communities for their employees (and what that might mean [...]

Community metrics module for drupal wins innovation award

Great to see that the community metrics module for drupal won an award for innovation at the Sift awards on Friday night. To read more about what the metrics can do, please see my post on the SiftGroups blog where it goes into more detail: New metrics to help you grow your community. Pic taken [...]

One swallow does not make a summer

Coming out of the Bannatyne’s Gym this evening a news piece on Sky News caught my eye about social networks. It was the news indeed (published on Facebook yesterday) that they were cash flow positive: “Earlier this year, we said we expected to be cash flow positive sometime in 2010, and I’m pleased to share [...]

How can mentoring help online communities?

The job of the community manager is not an easy one. He or she has to juggle competing internal cultures of IT, senior management, and the community itself in order to deliver results. Results in terms of engaged, active discussions as opposed to corporate generated content which is typical of traditional websites. But that said [...]