The Virtual Gardener
The place where I explore online community cultivation, propagation and harvesting techniques.
I've been working as head of consultancy at Sift for the last four years. The business supports all organisations looking to respond to a Web 2.0 world and truly engage with their audience - and has been doing so for the past 10 years.
This blog originally started out as a comment on a conference I attended about online communities. I'm now using it as a thought-bin for related stuff. Any gaps in posting doesn't mean I've stopped thinking ...
Next generation community platforms
Not sure about this one. Vendors were discussing their wares, but it’s all proprietary, no mention of open source. Strange in a Community 2.0 conference that was otherwise about sharing.
Ramius is well known to us when we were evaluating our own proprietary system. Their platform is 9 years old, so with those legacy challenges they’re migrating to a Web 2.0 platform. One new feature, which sounds tantalising, is the idea of allowing users to manage multiple profiles - based on the idea that we have many guises depending on the circumstances. Didn’t get any more than that - other than their business model, licensing on a per user basis, sounds very much like Web 1.0 to me.
The other supplier of interest was Spigit, focussed on tracking community value under the word ‘innovation’. They were talking about roles based on input and reputation - again intriguing but no more detail than that.
