Awakened Voice

A couple of days back I went to see The Police in concert at Giants Stadium. The show was great. I wish I could say the same for my experience with The Police Online Community.
Shortly after I forked over $95 per ticket plus special fees on the Ticketmaster website I started receiving emails inviting me [...]

I couldn’t help but invoke the great title of the Pink Floyd song in writing this little opinion piece on communities that sit behind walls.
A short while ago the formerly student only social network Facebook announced that they were opening up the Facebook architecture to allow 3rd party developers to write applications for the site. [...]

Digg is largely credit as the site that popularized the idea of social voting schemes for bookmarks. People submit links to timely items of interest and then the community votes them up or down. The idea was successful in attracting a critical mass so that meant a ‘roll your own’ Digg would certainly be [...]

There’s no doubt that the online video space is heating up.
In 2006 most of the buzz was around Do It Yourself (DIY) creators pushing the valuation of YouTube to over $1 Billion. I think 2007 is the year of the professional broadcaster in online video. Players like Joost and BrightCove have been successfully wooing [...]

I’ve written about Drupal here before. I think it’s the best open source community building tool out there.
If you want to start a single blog get WordPress. If you want a robust forum try PhpBB. If you want to build a rich media gallery try Broadcast Machine. If you want to do all three together [...]

This is an easy one to wrap my mind around. Think YouTube for presentations.
As someone very experienced in corporate presentations I know how many people despise slideshow presentations. But it’s really not the presentations they despise. They despise the approach. Thing of excruciatingly long presentations with way too much info on the slides.
Slide presentations can [...]

Yesterday I listed my New York Minute Show podcast and blog over at Placeblogger.
Placeblogger is a new directory for blogs and podcasts that focus on places. The concept is a very simple one. I’m surprised no one has done it before.The Placeblogger site allows you to find or add blogs about places by filling in [...]

My eyes first started to open up to the rapid development of online communities back in January of 2005 when I was researching the purchase of a new cell phone. While searching for information on a new device I came across a site called Howard Forums.
Run out of Toronto, Canada by Howard Chui, the [...]

Podcast Expo week rolls on here at Awakened Voice. Our latest lesson over in the Learning Center is a tour of the Blubrry social podcasting community. This is part one of a two part tour with the first part focusing on features that podcast subscribers will experience in the community.
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Let me introduce you to Vanilla. You are probably thinking that you don’t need any introduction to Vanilla since there’s a decent chance that it’s already your favorite flavor of ice cream. But I happen to be talking about a different flavor of Vanilla.
Vanilla is Open Source community forum software. When most people think [...]