Working Your Community’s Blogosphere

Recently, Darren Rowse at ProBlogger posted Five Reasons Why Mom Blogs Are the Blogs to Watch. Darren says “Mom blogs are poised to become the next big “It” when it comes to the internet–they’re gathering power like no other blogging niche and will only get bigger and better.” Then he lists some reasons why - [...]

Participating in Digital Community, or Lots of Links to David

I’ve been doing some thinking about all the different digital communities I participate in on the web, so I thought I’d create a list of them. It’s not a short list.
Things I use the most:

My blog (it’s an active community)
Flickr
Twitter (as I write this post, someone else just started following me on Twitter!)
Facebook
del.icio.us
AIM (I’m [...]

1000 True Fans - Can We Have 1000 True Patrons?

I just read 1000 True Fans from Kevin Kelly’s blog - great article! I suggest you go read it. And then come back! Because… I’m wondering… can that model work in a library/non-profit/website setting?
Here’s the gist of the idea presented in the article: for artists or creatives to make a living, they don’t really need [...]

More on Community

Nicole Engard (great blog, by the way - y’all should be reading it!) just left a comment on my post It’s About the Community. I was starting to reply to her comment when it dawned on me that my reply might work better as another post, so…
Nicole says: “David, I totally agree! But what about [...]