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Bilbao World Café European Gathering 2008 De la mano de Innobasque, el título elegido este año para el encuentro fue "Una nueva perspectiva sobre renovación: La experiencia de Bilbao" y atrajo participantes de lugares tan dispares como Australia, Bolivia, Brasil o los Estados Unidos para tomar parte de las conversaciones con ciudadanos de toda Europa. El día 5, fueron organizados 11 diferentes cafés locales en diferentes emplazamientos por organismos de tan diferentes sectores como son la educación, la salud, la empresa, I+D+i, las Agencias de Desarrollo Local, la juventud, los Servicios Sociales o el arte. Más de 800 personas de todo Euskadi participaron en estos World Cafés locales. Los organizadores de los espacios de reflexión, las temáticas tratadas y el número de participantes fueron: Diputación Foral de Bizkaia - Innovando con y por las personas en nuestras organizaciones - 90 personas Eitb (Euskal Irrati Telebista) - Responsabilidad Social Corporativa - 120 Pers. compromiso con la Responsabilidad Social. Large World Café:

Differentiating Between Social Media and Community Management As someone who works with social media managers and community managers, it seems the line between the two types of positions is not terribly clear – and maybe doesn’t need to be – but I think it would be helpful to distinguish between the two. Why? Jim will often say that everyone is a community manager and he is right – everyone has a group of constituents which could be cultivated to drive better performance. However, not all companies want, need to, or can cultivate a community. Community infers the following: Tight interlinking relationships between a significant percentage of membersAn acknowledgment of shared fate or purposeA potentially wide range of topics/conversations within that shared purposeA distributed leadership network – sometimes with a single leader, sometimes notA core membership that is relatively stable and active Social media on the other hand infers the following: To me this means that communities and social media are good for different types of business outcomes.

Was ist ein Trackback? Wie Trackbacks funktionieren Das ist Helmut. Und Helmut hat ein Weblog. Helmut nennt sein Weblog jedoch einfach nur Blog, wie das viele machen, außerdem klingt das viel cooler. Helmut ist damit einer von sehr vielen Bloggern, weltweit sind das mehrere Millionen Blogger, und alleine in Deutschland gibt es mehrere hunderttausend Blogger. Helmut schreibt mehrere Einträge pro Tag in sein Blog, und es kommen auch regelmäßig Besucher auf seinem Blog vorbei, die in den Beiträgen kommentieren. Heute hat Helmut einen Beitrag über seinen Hamster geschrieben, der hat nämlich schon 3 Tage nichts mehr gefressen und sitzt nur noch in seinem Häuschen rum, langsam macht sich Helmut Sorgen und berichtet davon in seinem Beitrag. Ute, die den Beitrag von Helmut gelesen hat, schreibt darauf hin einen eigenen Beitrag in ihrem Haustier-Blog und gibt dort verschiedene Tipps, was man machen kann, wenn ein Hamster keinen Hunger mehr hat. Jetzt veröffentlicht Ute den Artikel. Wann man einen Trackback setzt

untitled Twinkeling* is about positive alternatives, curiosity, experiments and beauty. Positive Alternatives, Curiosity, Experiments & Beauty Accepting that there are more realities. That everybody has the ability to change their behavior and to positively influence their surroundings. As Twinkeling* and crew at new shoes today I work with many businesses and (semi-)governmental institutions looking for new creative ways for their environments. The ‘brand promise’ of new shoes today and Twinkeling*, as far as I’m concerned lives in the activities we do (with clients and co-creators). •is today •is conscious •can be done in a better way •can be achieved in a more beautiful way •can be done... As new shoes today organisation we have such a (growing) organisational body, that we are now able (with clients and co-creators) to move more consciously towards positive alternatives, like: The continuous search for for ‘positive alternatives’ is my main drive. Live life! Ramon Vullings

Collaborate only when necessary | WiserEarth Blog On April 2, we were attending a Tools for Catalyzing Collaboration workshop organized by Eugene Kim of Blue Oxen Associates who also happens to be a WiserEarth advisor. One of my favorite sessions of this Open Space gathering was around the definition of collaboration. Eugene shared his definition: Two or more people working together towards in the pursuit of a shared, collective, bounded goal. We talked about the pressure many of us feel to collaborate, partly at the request of funders, as if collaboration was an end in itself. Then, as is the case in Open Space meetings, another person, in this case Diane Johnson-McCarthy, joined our group. Networking: Exchanging information for mutual benefit. When you simply network, you are reflecting an initial level of trust, limited time availability, and a quite reasonable reluctance to ‘share turf’. Coordinating requires more trust and time investment but critically does not yield access to each other’s turf. 0share Print Friendly

Soziale Netzwerke - Facebook schaltet unbemerkt Freunde ab - Meldung - Stiftung Warentest [Update 14.03.2011] Änderungen sukzessive Facebook teilte test.de auf Anfrage mit, dass die Änderungen in den Einstel­lungen „sukzessive“ erfolgen würden. Bei manchen Facebook-Nutzern wirken sie sich also schon etwas länger aus, bei anderen sind die Änderungen noch ganz frisch. Keine Auskunft erteilte Facebook darüber, wie häufig und auf welche Weise Nutzer mit einem Freund über die Platt­form interagieren müssen, damit Meldungen dieses Freundes stets ange­zeigt werden. [Ende Update] Nur noch rege Freund­schaften werden ange­zeigt Viele Facebook-Nutzer wundern sich, dass sie plötzlich viel weniger von Ihren „Freunden“ zu lesen bekommen als bislang. Änderungen rück­gängig machen Sie können diese Änderungen rück­gängig machen. Nächster Schritt: Im Menü, das sich nach dem Klick auf „Optionen bearbeiten“ öffnet, können Sie auswählen, dass Sie wieder Beiträge von „allen deinen Freunden und Seiten“ sehen wollen. Auch die Freunde müssen Einstel­lungen verändern Tipps

Rick Lewis Entertainer Speaker and Author Broadcast Institutions, Community Values There is a long history of businesses trying to harness the power of online communities for commercial ends. Most of these attempts have failed, for the obvious reasons. There are few products or services people care about in a way that would make them want to join a community, and when people are moved to speak out about a commercial offering, it is usually to complain. Media organizations, however, would seem to be immune to these difficulties, because online media and online communities have the same output: words and images. Even here, though, there are significant obstacles to hosting community, obstacles peculiar to the nature of media. Much of the discipline a broadcast organization must internalize to do its job well are not merely irrelevant to community building, but actively harmful. If you were a broadcast media outlet thinking about community building, here are five things you would think about: 1. #1. Audiences are connected through broadcast. #2. #3. #4. #5. Hard Work

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