Community is not the same as commonality People at a bus stop are not a community. people who go online are not a community. “A community is a group of people who form relationships over time by interacting regularly around shared experiences, which are of interest to all of them
We both attended the Women, Business and Blogging conference at De Montfort University last Friday 8th June. The speakers were fascinating (lots more detail on these on Helen Whitehead’s blog Periodic Fable): Meg Pickard of Guardian Unlimited, Eileen Brown of Microsoft and Jory des Jardins of BlogHer. They presented some
The first speaker at the Women Business & Blogging conference at DMU on Friday (8th June) was Meg Pickard, Head of Communities and User Experience for Guardian Unlimited. She spoke about “Whose Web is it anyway”. Meg introduced us to the levels of a user’s interactions with the internet starting