Tag Archive: eCommunity

Community Management: Emotional Triangles, Accusers And Direct Dealing

Tweet It’s time to throw the yellow flag on an unprofessional and inappropriate behavior. Imagine the following scenario. You are part of an online community of professionals. One of your eCommunity colleagues comes to you and has a problem with another person. Do you become part of the problem or part of the solution? What…

Open Community, Conferences And Learning

Tweet Image By mallix. We’re taking part in the virtual book tour Maddie Grant and Lindy Dreyer are doing to explore concepts from Open Community: a little book of big ideas for associations navigating the social web. In this post, Maddie and Lindy answer a few questions for anyone interested in conferences and learning. Why…

Porches, Greek Porticos, Refrigerator Rights & Social Media

Tweet Debra Askanase has an interesting post, Front Yard and Back Yard Conversations, about the progression of relationships in social media.  Go read it. I’ll be here waiting for you when you return.  She suggests that many social media platforms are like front yards and that relationships really develop in people’s back yards where the…

Since When Did Virtual Not Become A Live Experience?

Tweet I’m tired of well-intentioned adults slamming adults, teens and kids that text. Especially those that text each other while in the same room. I’m sick of association and organization leaders knocking online communities, social networks and live chats as inferior to face-to-face experiences. I’m also fed-up with event producers and face-to-face conference organizers bashing…