I’m often in the position of being an advocate of online communities. I think that when they’re well conceived and executed they work incredibly well to connect people across roles and organizational constraints. But it can be a hard slog to prove it. (Not...
Congratulations to Kate and the team at Change Everything for the fine mention of their efforts to help the homeless with toques and warm clothes in the Globe and Mail. The harsh winter weather has also brought an outpouring of support for those who live on the...
Late last week I received a phone call from Mark at Aquent’s Vancouver office. He was very pleasant on the phone and told me a story about how my post on Aquent (Aquent whiffs on making connections) had travelled through the email inboxes of a number of folks at...
Aquent is a made-up word and an online talent agency. They introduce people looking for work to people looking for workers, and take a cut of the action. Or, in their own words: Aquent is a professional services firm that specializes in helping companies all over the...
Congratulations to Vancity, the folks involved with the ChangeEverything campaign, and Social Signal for a great write up of their project in TechCrunch this morning. ChangeEverything.ca is a Canadian 43Things clone that will launch this month and is provided by the...
Rob Cottingham writes to remind me of a great event coming up next week here in Vancouver: Social Tech Brewing. I attended the last Social Tech Brewing at The Whip back in May and met some great folks. I also ran into some folks I hadn’t seen for awhile and...
For almost a year now I’ve been a Flickr Pro member. I paid my annual tariff and upload at will with a happy Pro tag next to my name. A few weeks ago Flickr released a new version, with a revised interface and layout, and cheekily moved from Beta to Gamma. I...
Today I came across CollectiveX, a site for managing a group of people on the web. Interesting, I thought to myself. That’s pretty much what I’ve been looking for for a client who wants to manage their board members, various committees and all their...
A friend and I have an ongoing discussion about technology and change. It goes like this: change opportunities in the organization she works for only really exist once The Economist writes about them. Before that, as far as her boss is concerned, nothing noteworthy...
Update: Here is a link to the original post on Kathy Sierra’s blog about her talk, Creating Passionate Users. Via a roundup post of audio and video stuff to hear / watch on the pretty-much-always-excellent 37 Signals blog, Signal vs. Noise, I came across an...