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When social creations take flight

by Rob Cottingham | Aug 11, 2011 | Online Community, Social Signal

Five years ago this summer, in a boardroom at Vancity, William Azaroff was unveiling a new online community to an audience of Vancouver-area bloggers — a community we had worked with Vancity to conceive, build and launch. Also in attendance (maybe ex…

Why attribution is important – even (especially) on Tumblr and Posterous

by Rob Cottingham | May 24, 2011 | Blogging, Social Signal

Not long ago, I saw a reference on Twitter to a clever illustration of either Wolverine or one Batman looking at another. I clicked through to a Tumblr page, where someone had reblogged it from someone else on Tumblr, who had reblogged it from someone …

Updating this plugin (just killed my site) (a WordPress song)

by Rob Cottingham | May 17, 2011 | Blogging, Technology

So I saw this from Alex a few minutes ago: I have a shiny toonie for the person to write, record & upload a song called “Upgrading this plugin just killed my site.”Tue May 17 17:19:34 via HootSuiteAlexandraSamuel.com awsamuel I’m comping you,...

Everything I needed to know about social networking, I learned from my mom

by Rob Cottingham | May 8, 2011 | Online Community, Social Signal

When my mother died in early 2004, Friendster was the domain of the young’uns, MySpace was barely out the door and Facebook was still a month from launching.
But for someone who never saw used the word “friend” as a verb in her life, JoAnne Cottingham…

10 things they do for you on your blog’s 10th anniversary

by Rob Cottingham | Apr 18, 2011 | Blogging

Tiffany’s gives you jade-and-ruby-encrusted “Previous” and “Next” buttons. Comment spammers begin to leave actual Spam™. Six Apart upgrades you to Seven Apart. (Damn… missed out on this by a few months.) You get invited to glitzy,...

"Persona management": how automated fake profiles threaten the heart of online community

by Rob Cottingham | Feb 28, 2011 | Online Community, Social Signal

There’s a reason social media analysts and practitioners harp so much on authenticity: it’s one of the underpinnings of the “social” in “social media”.
Online community works because of our relationships with each other; those relationships can only ha…

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