by Rob Cottingham | Nov 2, 2010 | Online Community, Social Media, Social Signal
My friends Maddie Grant and Lindy Dreyer have just launched Open Community, “a little book of big ideas for associations navigating the social web”. (I was fortunate enough to get to do cartoons for the book, which meant I got a sneak peek – and I wa…
by Rob Cottingham | Nov 2, 2010 | Online Community, Social Media, Social Signal
My friends Maddie Grant and Lindy Dreyer have just launched Open Community, “a little book of big ideas for associations navigating the social web”. (I was fortunate enough to get to do cartoons for the book, which meant I got a sneak peek – and I wa…
by Rob Cottingham | Oct 4, 2010 | Online Community, Social Signal
We’re coming up to the fifth anniversary of the Social Signal blog. So it’s fitting that this Bedtime with Rob and Alex podcast looks at the heart of what we do: developing strategies for participation.
And this time out, we’re looking at strategies fo…
by Rob Cottingham | Apr 18, 2010 | Cartoons, Online Community, Technology
It’s a small thing, I know. But one of the fine little pleasures of this era is posting a cartoon, and then watching it get retweeted on Twitter. Especially as the evening goes on, and the North American tweeting dies down… and I start to see people in... by Rob Cottingham | Dec 14, 2009 | Cartoons, Noise to Signal, Online Community, Social Media
The debate rages on over whether social networks (and Twitter, and YouTube, and, and, and) have any legitimacy in the workplace, fueled in no small part by people who sell tools to block them. But employers who turn their noses up at Facebook et al. may well discover... by Rob Cottingham | Nov 30, 2009 | Cartoons, Noise to Signal, Online Community
A while back, a friend of mine wondered about LinkedIn’s somewhat limited options for indicating how you know someone. (“I vomited on their shoes at the office party” isn’t on the list, for example.) We had a back-and-forth on her blog, and I...
