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Re: Five Great Communities for Sharing Ideas on Collaboration in the Workplace

Connie Bensen — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 22:05:07 -0000

Thanks for the very kind words Dave! And Dan you're creating some great resources here.

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dpritchett — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 10:48:58 -0000

Memphis can be a fun place to visit and I'm sure the SMB Memphis crowd will help you find the best parts. Twitter tells me it's Elvis Week down here right now.

Re: Five Great Communities for Sharing Ideas on Collaboration in the Workplace

dpritchett — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 09:56:22 -0000

Thanks for pointing out these good sites! I'm going to go ahead and add Social Median to the list above and put all three in my news reader. Looks like I'll need to make a big post soon about my favorite bloggers in this space.

I recognize Ms. Bensen and Mr. Owyang from some of your past updates on twitter and your blog, I'll be following each of them intently now.

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dpritchett — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 09:37:33 -0000

Tweetdeck suggestion voted up, and I'm adding Dosh Dosh to the list above. Thanks again Justin!

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Bryan Person, LiveWorld — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 07:31:05 -0000

Daniel, nice to see you're getting value from the Memphis SMBs. Dave Barger has done a great job in quickly turning them into a must-attend event. I hope to make one myself in the next six months or so.

--Bryan Person
Social Media Breakfast founder

Re: Five Great Communities for Sharing Ideas on Collaboration in the Workplace

Dave Barger — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 23:33:00 -0000

While this post grows, let's pile on a couple more bookmarkables:

http://www.socialmedian.com
It's like a mashup of several different great components along with some ingenious creations of their own.

Most A-listers you run into are completely full of themselves, are off in celebrity mode, and lost track of the trenches long ago. I don't like the way many of them treat people like flocks of sheep that'll mindlessly hoof-it wherever directed. Here are two exceptions that don't readily appear to bias their information with their opinions (unless expressly stated):

http://www.web-strategist.com
Jeremiah Owyang - Is a top notch aggregator. Many people follow him and he's able to get nice sample of opinions and sentiment quickly and shares his findings. He is a community builder, and very knowledgeable.

http://conniebensen.com
Connie Bensen - A community management ace, Connie's blog is a plethora of information and her writing is precision. She's most personable, very busy in high demand, and I've referred to her as my 'Social Media Angel' at least a couple of times.

Re: Five Great Communities for Sharing Ideas on Collaboration in the Workplace

dpritchett — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 20:17:33 -0000

Nice to hear from you Justin! I am finding Mashable's articles to be hit or miss so far but I can't argue with the steady stream of social media stories.

I've not seen DoshDosh, so I'll check that out tonight.

I do like tweetdeck's filtering options by my daytime interaction with is mostly limited to RSS feeds and the occasional tweet via IM... I try not to keep twitter open 24/7.

I do have tweetdeck at home and I'll have to remember to load it up at night.

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skippytpe — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 18:57:59 -0000

Thanks for the reminder about Mashable... it's been a while since I've been there and it really seems to have turned into a good resource.

While it's not so much KM as marketing, I've been finding DoshDosh really useful lately. So much of getting the most out of any organizational resource comes from the ability to get user buy in (which sometimes requires a little internal marketing). I'm not sure I'm necessarily saying that I'm going to start a Viral Marketing campaign to sell the idea of my companies internal document libraries, but if I could figure out a way to make it work, then so much the better.

Also, on the Twitter front, have you tried Tweetdeck? It allows you to keep searches open and returning results live to the desktop client. It doesn't support all of the search syntax that search.twitter.com does (yet) but it's still a pretty good utility to have around.

I've put in a feature request for them to fix the search syntax in their feedback forums, so if you like it and would like more search features, vote me up :)

http://tweetdeck.uservoice.com/pages/general/su...