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Communicosm

A short while ago, I wrote a little piece about a possible idea to enter into the Building Democracy competition, which was to create a social ‘directory’ of online community groups. I put directory in inverted comments because that isn’t … Continue reading

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My Building Democracy idea

I just had a request from someone asking what the best community sites are for a certain – fairly specific – group of people. A little digging, partly Google, partly ‘I know I’ve seen something like this somewhere…’, soon produced … Continue reading

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A thought…

…that’s occurred to me since being at Online Information last week. People still seem to be under the impression that having a forum on a website, whether internal or external, means you have a community. You don’t. A community needs … Continue reading

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