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 27, 2010 | Social Signal
I had something of a happy mystery yesterday: a huge surge in traffic on one of my Noise to Signal cartoons with no apparent reason why.
That’s the kind of mystery I dearly love to solve. Not just because I’m nosey, but also because I’d like to thank w…
by Rob Cottingham | Oct 7, 2010 | Social Signal
Facebook’s announcement yesterday of a new Groups feature caught a lot of people by surprise.
Even more surprising, though, was the discovery that you could be signed up for a Group without knowing about it – and that your inbox would promptly start fi…
by Rob Cottingham | Oct 7, 2010 | Blogging, Social Signal
If you’re a WordPress.com user, you’ve come across Gravatars before. They’re the avatar, or user image, associated with your account, and they show up next to your comments – not just on your own blog, but on any WordPress.com blog… and on any other …
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…