Fast Wonder Blog: Consulting, Online Communities, and Social MediaConsulting services for companies wanting to engage with online communities through social media.Focused on online communities, open technologies, open source, web 2.0, social media, RSS, blogging, and podcasting.Maintaining a Successful Corporate Community- September 17, 2008 Apparently, this is corporate community week on the Fast Wonder Blog. I decided to follow up my post on Monday about Custom Corporate Communities: Planning and Getting Started with this post containing tips about what to do and what to avoid doing if you want to have a successful corporate community. While some of these ...http://fastwonderblog.com/2008/09/17/maintaining-a-successful-corporate-community/ ReadWriteWebs Seven Social Media Consultants- September 17, 2008 Wow. I&8217;m honored to have made Marshall&8217;s list of Seven Social Media Consultants That Deliver Tangible Value on ReadWriteWeb today: In this post we highlight seven social media consultants that consistently bring tangible value to the table. These folks aren&8217;t full of hot air - they use their blogs to offer clear examples, links, tutorials and ...http://fastwonderblog.com/2008/09/16/readwritewebs-seven-social-media-consultants/ Custom Corporate Communities: Planning and Getting Started- September 15, 2008 Corporate communities refer to any custom community created by an organization for the purpose of engaging with customers or other people who may be interested in the organization&8217;s products and services. For the purpose of this post, custom corporate communities include communities created by corporations, non-profit organizations, educational institutions and similar organizations. These corporate communities ...http://fastwonderblog.com/2008/09/15/custom-corporate-communities-planning-and-getting-sta... Taking Your Idea From Side Project to Startup- September 14, 2008 I spent last evening and most of the day today at From Side Project to Startup. I had a great time, and I want to start with a huge thank you to Eva, David, the rest of the team at CubeSpace, the volunteers and the sponsors for putting together a great event! Great sessions, cool ...http://fastwonderblog.com/2008/09/13/taking-your-idea-from-side-project-to-startup/ Recent Links on Ma.gnolia- September 13, 2008 A few interesting things this week &8230; With Community Management Comes a New Kind of Stress Online Community Strategist Tags: community, community management Monty Widenius, One of MySQLs Founding Fathers, Leaves SunMySQL Tags: monty widenius, mysql, sun Vidoop - The Oregon Trail! Tags: vidoop, oregon trail, openid Don&8217;t Shoot the Messenger &124; Social Media Explorer Tags: social media, community, people picoformats - Microformats ...http://fastwonderblog.com/2008/09/13/recent-links-on-magnolia-34/ Tips for Pitching to Investors- September 10, 2008 I attended the Funding Universe Live Pitch event here in Portland yesterday, and I found the whole process fascinating. There were 5 companies pitching, about 35 people in the audience, and a panel made up of experts with expertise in venture capital, angel investments, and more (including our favorite Portland tech blogger Rick Turoczy). It ...http://fastwonderblog.com/2008/09/10/tips-for-pitching-to-investors/ Monitoring Dashboards: Why every company should have one- September 8, 2008 I cannot put enough emphasis on the importance of using monitoring dashboards to understand what people are saying about you, your industry, your competitors and more. The information obtained can be used as ideas for blog posts, marketing messages, competitive analysis, product feedback and much more. In addition to providing inspiration, they also help you ...http://fastwonderblog.com/2008/09/08/monitoring-dashboards-why-every-company-should-have-o... Recent Links on Ma.gnolia- September 6, 2008 A few interesting things this week &8230; Social Punishment: The Bozo Feature Tags: community, community management, bozo, jeremiah owyang Pistachio Consulting Inc. Twitter for Business Reading List Tags: twitter, pistachio, corporate, brand, business Media Tags: battlestar galactica Google Chrome and the future of browsers &124; FactoryCity Tags: google, chris messina, factoryjoe, firefox, chrome 12 New Rules of Working You Should Embrace Today &124; ...http://fastwonderblog.com/2008/09/06/recent-links-on-magnolia-33/ Community Manager Compensation Study- September 2, 2008 I&8217;ve mentioned before about how great it is that ForumOne does focused, relevant, and interesting research on the online community market, and their most recent report is no exception. They just released the Online Community Compensation Study results a week ago. Since I participated in the study, I was able to get a free copy ...http://fastwonderblog.com/2008/09/02/community-manager-compensation-study/ Techmeme Keyword Alert Pipe- September 1, 2008 Most of us have various feeds that we use to track where people are mentioning our company, products, industry or other areas of interest. It occurred to me that it might be a good idea to track articles hitting Techmeme that have a certain keyword in the title or description of the post. Eureka! The ...http://fastwonderblog.com/2008/09/01/techmeme-keyword-alert-pipe/ |