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. [...]

WordPress 2.1 is out and contains some significant upgrades that publishers will really like. Drupal 5.0 was recently released and contains some significant upgrades that make it easier to use and more flexible than ever. So which one should you use to satisfy your web publishing needs?
First off, if you’re currently invested in one package [...]

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.
[tags]Social Media, Tour, Blubrry, Podcasting, Community[/tags]

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 [...]

I read an article this morning in the print version of the Wall Street Journal indicating that NBC Universal has struck a deal with YouTube to use their social video sharing community to promote NBC shows.
It was only a couple of months ago that NBC Uni was fuming over the presence of copyrighted content on [...]

I’m a big fan of businesses getting involved in social communities rather than throwing down hard earned cash to advertise on them via links and banners. Cakewalk, a maker of digital music production software, has done just that.
You can find Cakewalk of MySpace at http://myspace.com/cakewalksoftware. A good move for these folks. After all, many music [...]

Most of us are very familiar with web based communities. One of the earliest form of web based communities was the threaded message board or forums. In recent years social networking sites and Wikis have reduced the demand for forum sites as a method of connecting.
That said, plain old forums are still a great way [...]

I’m a big advocate of companies starting their own communities in order to spur interest in their products and services. Well Napster, yes Napster, has made a very smart move and done just that with Narchive.
From the looks of it, Narchive is a Wikipedia style encyclopedia of music that’s created by the users of the [...]

Steve Rubel reports that Nike and Google have teamed up to launch an online soccer community called Joga. The site appears to accept Google account info, but upon login you’re very likely to see a “sorry” message. For now the site is invite only. You can request an invite by entering your name and email [...]