Last month, as I was listening to a webinar about the recently-published 2009 Tribalization of Business Study, I tweeted this top-level finding: “Getting people to engage and participate” is one of the biggest obstacles to building successful online communities.
David Parmet quickly responded with this observation: “I hate when these ideas are framed so that it’s [...]

All sorts of 2009 predictions have been popping up on blog posts (and in magazines and mainstream media sites, too) these past few weeks.  I’m guessing you’ve read at least one or two of them? (If not, check out the crystall-ball gazing submissions that Peter Kim compiled.)
But until about an hour ago, I hadn’t read [...]

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In two weeks, on Thursday, December 11, I’ll be on the “hot seat” in Ottawa (or maybe I should call it the “cold seat” since it’ll be Ottawa in December; brrr!) at that city’s Social Media Breakfast 5.
SMB Ottawa organizers Simon Chen, Ryan Anderson, and Rob Lane have tapped James Lewis, executive director of [...]

The built-in 2 megapixel camera in my new iPhone 3G will probably never produce any award-winning photos, but here’s the key: It makes publishing a “good enough” photo to the web an absolute breeze.
Here’s the basic two-step process I’m using to publish photos to my Flickr and Brightkite photo streams:

Take the photo
Select the “Email Photo” [...]

Know what I’d like to see as part of all Facebook event invitations? An “If only…” option.
Take, for instance, this invitation to Social Media Breakfast Singapore, which is scheduled for Saturday, March 29.

It’s not exactly practical for me to travel halfway around the world to attend this first international edition of my breakfast series — [...]