So I have an announcement. This has been going down for a little while now, but I get to spill the beans today. I am officially a writer for the authoritative web 2.0 resource eHub. eHub is the brainchild of a one Ms. Emily Chang, principal of Ideacodes, which is a strategic web design and consulting firm based in San Francisco. They are the team behind Twitterverse and have designed sites including StyleHive, GigaOm, and lots more. You'll see my first feature tomorrow. Read more »
I don't usually read Seth Godin's Blog. I've read his books, and I agree with him generally, but a steady diet of Seth becomes a little Messianic for my liking. But I listen to him when he bubbles up through the other blogs I like.
Today, Bokardo quotes him, saying:
"What if you want to hire someone to build an online community? Somebody to create and maintain a virtual world in which all the players in an industry feel like they need to be part of it? Like being the head of a big trade association, but without the bureaucracy and tedium… Read more »
There's an interesting piece in this month's Fast Company about three different companies who are taking steps to reclaim their employees inboxes. All of these seem like good ideas.
From Techcrunch, I spotted this piece of news: Jupiter Media, a New York-based digital services firm, acquired the writing community Mediabistro for $23 million. To me this is interesting because mediabistro fills most, if not all, the needs an association would--including health insurance plans for its members. I have hung around the Mediabistro community enough to know they add real value. Jupiter media operates several other communities as well as this most recent addition.
