by Rob Cottingham | Oct 20, 2011 | Social Signal
Podcasting, as any social media guru worth her or his robes knows, is dead. Like so many social technologies, it failed to jump the adoption gap, break the hype cycle or clear the Great Hurdle of At-First-Raving-and-then-Dismissive Punditry.
Except tha…
by Rob Cottingham | Oct 12, 2011 | Social Signal
If you’ve had the same experience of Google+ that I have, then you’re probably loving the more expansive conversational room, the in-context shared content, the simplicity of Circles, the immediacy of Hangouts.
But you may be missing the handy tools th…
by Rob Cottingham | Sep 6, 2011 | Social Signal
By now, Twitter’s media stereotype as the place you come to share details of your last meal is finally starting to fade, giving way to a growing understanding of its real impact on the world.
And while a lot of attention has been going to Twitter as a …
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…
by Rob Cottingham | Aug 9, 2011 | Social Signal
Sachi and Lee LeFever’s company Common Craft has reinvented itself a few times… and each time, they just get more and more useful. From an online community consulting firm, Common Craft turned into a creator and provider of simple, charming and mons…
by Rob Cottingham | Jul 8, 2011 | Social Signal
If you’ve managed to sprint inside of Google+ during one of those brief periods when the front door has been left ajar, then the first thing you’ve seen has been Google Circles. It allows you to organize your contacts into lists, based on how you k…