Tag Archive for "groups"

social networks and time: visual thought on classifications

by Jye on Mar 25, 2009 with 3 Comments

After working through my first diagrams it became apparent that there some overlap, and this over lap was driven by the users of these communities. If you're looking to build out a network or community it's important to look at existing models to know what kind of time your users may spend with you and other community members. Based on the original visual thoughts, I've grouped a number of existing networks to best describe where they fit with one another.

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Yammer: Groups Announced

by Jye on Nov 06, 2008 with 2 Comments

Even though I'm currently not 100% on Yammer yet, I was very happy to get this email this week.  Obviously an important feature of any social media technology is the ability to further customise and personalise the way you interact, view and engage with your friends and peers. What are you doing for your customers? For your audience? Are you maximising their interaction? Their personalisation? You should be. Yammer is pleased to announce the release of Groups, our most requested feature since launching two months ago. You can use Groups to: * Form company teams * Join your department * Post updates to a specific group of ...

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Making your services more relevant, accessible and seen

by Jye on Sep 18, 2008 with No Comments

A must for any marketers promoting community and their suite of products.  FriendFeed has introduced a number of features. I'm still not convinced this will make me promote my own profile, due to my limited interest in the services. But as I've discussed previously, all services must look for ways to continue to add accessibility and relevance to their product. I think LinkedIn has really pulled up their socks with their iPhone App and increased Group functionality - but we'll see how the community will respond. And as Gavin Heaton also dicussed recently, it's also about continually adding value to an existing ...

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