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Community Building & Management
The Social Times: What’s the Future of D.C. Technology?
As reprinted from AdMarketing list
Nick ONeill runs The Social Times blog. If you’re RSS feed isn’t picking this blog up, it should! He also runs the allfacebook blog- the unofficial facebook blog
Nick had an interesting post this morning:
What’s the Future of D.C. Technology?
Nick’s overall tone is positive and says that WDC is well on the way but… that the tech community is still missing a few things. Included: positive press, funding, a culture of risk.
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Messege boards: some things never change
I recently saw this note from Yahoo! News. Long before Web 2.0 was a term, people were grappling with the issue of unmoderated discussions. Unfiltered discussions allow for grand standing and flame wars. It can also be difficult to determine metrics for theses conversations. An active thread or even the number of comments can be misleading when trying to gage interaction. Sometimes, we use the number of posters or people participating in a conversation but that can also be misleading.
The upside to all of this activity and interaction is, of course, that people are involved and helping to create the content.