Best Engaging Communities
Personal Blog of Mukund Mohan
Best Engaging Communities: Category Archive for Business Communities

How many forum members does it take to change a lightbulb?

How to make a customer (or a fan / champion) for life?

Enterprise software vs. Consumer software

Making it easier to comment on blogs

How to be a good host: Lessons from my SixApart discussion

List of companies trying monetize video from YouTube and other video sites

Social media experts are in beta version

FTCLTL: First Time Commenter, Long Time Listener (Reader)

Using blogs as a starting point for Social Media efforts

What have you learned from your community lately? A discussion with Dan Neely

Great tip for fostering community belonging - find that "common connection"

Designing and Enabling Communities, A PPT (link)

History of online communities, an old but useful reference

Vendor & Whitepaper Review: KickApps - for Social Media and Networking: Publishing

Budget Allocation for Marketing

Doing it for the pleasure and fun of it

What Robert's done that's amazing

Gartner Magic Quadrant: Team Collaboration and Social Software

So much for "Newspapers are dead"; NYTimes reports solid earnings

Social Networks and Communities of today are the B2B Exchanges of 1999

How to choose an agency or consulting company for your community initiative

Anthony Bradley and Tom Austin at Gartner ITExpo on Enterprise 2.0 and Web 2.0

Top 18 list of known tactics to improve community participation

Asynchronous Javascript & XML = AJAX

ROI from communities: SAP; link

What Drives Detractors & Evangelists? Spoiler Alert: I dont have answers, just more questions.

What's propelling the real adoption of social networks and communities?

Social Media Investing on the Rise

iPhone Zombies!

A Face that Launched 1000 Blogs: Review of the Mash Reviews

Where Your Ideas Reign

Why Users Generate Content?

Making Ginormous Amounts of Money with Social Media

The Power of Community Marketing

2008: Year of acquisitions for community vendors?

How much does the community really matter?

5 things to do and 3 things to NOT do at Unconferences or BarCamps

The Apple Community: How to make fans of your users?

Ian Kennedy of MyBlogLog Interview

Review of NVidia developer community

Review of SAP Community Network

Review of Intel developer community

Review of Adobe developer community

Review of Cisco developer community

Review of HP developer community

Review of Apple Developer Connection

Review of Oracle Technology Network

Review of Yahoo developer network

Review of Microsoft Developer Community

Review of java.net community

What is required for a successful developer community?

Moving users along the engagement process

Using communities to turn lemons into lemonade

5 secrets every community manager wishes they knew

Highlights of survey for developer communities; 112 respondents

Some challenges faced by developer communities

Is your community part of the company or outside of it?

Should you allow your competitors on your online community?

Humanizing your community: The people aspect of online communities

Communities and fresh content; dispelling the myth that people dont view content online

Typical character traits of a community manager

How to get your VP Sales (for a software company) to give a damm about the community

Content will define brands: Leveraging user generated content to your advantage in communities.

How communities will affect your web marketing, Search engine optimization & Search Marketing

Community Evangelist: Role definition and example

What are the responsibilities of a community manager?

What is a Community of Practice? Leveraging communities to seek out people like you

What makes online communities tick?

Top 5 ways our community managers get people to participate in the community: Best Practices

What a community manager does? From Jeremiah Owyang

If you get to the goal, does it matter how you got there

McKinsey Quarterly on Adoption of Web 2.0 (communities, social networks are the most used)

Why top 10 lists work and what is the best way to use them

Cross poted on future of communities: 5AP countersues 0rac1e alleging “corporate boredom”

What's the most efficient way to evangalize about communities?: Discussion with Chris Heuer

There is no such thing as "Off the record" anymore. Dealing with being open in the community

Build it and they’ll know

The ten step checklist for starting your community; from my future of communities blog

The fastest way to get feedback from your community: Interview with Gina Bianchini, CEO Ning

Find your Paul and let him loose

For business communities its all about the business process

Community adoption: Interesting view of P&G from Infomation week & Nic Brisbourne

Walking the fine line between too many choices and enough options: Best practice discussion with Marc Canter

What I learned from Rachel Ray about social communities?

New Community Calendar: All events related to online communities in one place

Is your community Global? How about your career?

Getting consumers to brand your products using online communities

The one thing that matters in successful communities: Interview with Sean ODriscoll of Microsoft

2 key news events that will shape online social networking

The fine art of asking questions of your community: Best practices

Your comments are mostly a waste of time :) (from my posting at Future of Communities

Private vs. Public;when to adopt which type of community

Lots of good tips and best practices available from other bloggers

How not to get JetBlued! And the BEST ROI on communities

Best Practices to motivate participants: Money is NOT the ONLY answer

Asking the Expert: Interview Matthew Lees of Patricia Seybold Group

From Future of Communities: Communities, Social Networks, Collaboration Networks - what's the difference

Understanding the economics of support communities: Best practices from Joe Cothrel of Lithium

The Myspace Effect: Why are businesses building social communities? - Interview with Michael Wilson

Rohit Bhargava on 10 Secrets of Successful Online Community from Community Next