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Session description

It seems that everyone is talking about user generated content and online communities these days. But how will citizen journalism, user-generated content, the Blogosphere, tagging, ranking, and Wiki knowledge reshape branding and your business? How do you manage and scale this community and then hand control to your users (and how do you explain to the boss what you've just done?). Gain an understanding that dialogue is the new content and learn how to maximise the benefits (and minimise the pitfalls) of creating online communities in this presentation.

About Laurel Papworth

Laurel Papworth PortraitLaurel Papworth runs a consultancy specialising in maximising value from establishing online communities.

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Session description

In this specialised session Thomas gets us up to speed with his "Come to Me Web" framework for structuring information and web sites. This framework includes the "Model of Attraction", Personal InfoCloud, and Folksonomy. This ads the focus of designing and developing for information use across devices and context. With this framework we can consider mobile, broadband, web storage and personal off-line storage of information and its implications as we structure our information and sites.

About Thomas Vander Wal

Thomas Vander Wal PortraitThomas Vander Wal has a broad background in information management, which encompasses information architecture, interaction design, web development and information design. Thomas has 18 years of professional experience in the web and technology sector. He has spoken on information architecture, interaction design, accessibility, web standards, and user-centered design at IA Summit, STC, SXSW, Design Engaged, WebVisions, BayCHI, and various workshops. Thomas helped found Boxes and Arrows and the Information Architecture Institute (Asilomar Institute for Information Architecture), and is currently on the Steering Committee for the Web Standards Project. In 2004 he coined the term Folksonomy and is researching, advising, and developing tagging systems and services. He is the founder and principal of InfoCloud Solutions, Inc., a web consulting and product development firm.

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Session description

It seems that everyone is talking about user generated content and online communities these days. But how will citizen journalism, user-generated content, the Blogosphere, tagging, ranking, and Wiki knowledge reshape branding and your business? How do you manage and scale this community and then hand control to your users (and how do you explain to the boss what you've just done?). Gain an understanding that dialogue is the new content and learn how to maximise the benefits (and minimise the pitfalls) of creating online communities in this presentation.

About Laurel Papworth

Laurel Papworth PortraitLaurel Papworth runs a consultancy specialising in maximising value from establishing online communities.

Back in the nineties she had key roles in major projects such as NewsPro (digitising Fairfax Newspapers in 1994) and Optus Networker (the first WAP product in Australia in 1999). As part of establishing Optus Convergent media, she managed optus.com and optus.net editorial and technical teams. The last 10 years have been spent outside Australia, working for such major players as Telkomsel Indonesia, UUNET Europe and Cisco Asia.Laurel is a leading expert on user generated content. She set up an online community for Cisco using user generated content from project managers to manage knowledge transfer across Asia. She's also been an administrator for Stratics.com, a massive MMORPG site that handles the official online newspaper, forums etc for Ultima Online and others.Excited to be back in Australia, her current projects include consulting to a major international studio and entertainment group in preparation of the launch of a children's TV program across AsiaPacific that addresses childhood obesity and health combining animation with online communities." ["post_title"]=> string(52) "Laurel Papworth - The business of online communities" ["post_category"]=> string(1) "0" ["post_excerpt"]=> string(802) "A presentation given at Web Directions South, Sydney Australia, September 29 2006.Laurel Papworth PortraitIt seems that everyone is talking about user generated content and online communities these days. But how will citizen journalism, user-generated content, the Blogosphere, tagging, ranking, and Wiki knowledge reshape branding and your business? How do you manage and scale this community and then hand control to your users (and how do you explain to the boss what you've just done?). Gain an understanding that dialogue is the new content and learn how to maximise the benefits (and minimise the pitfalls) of creating online communities in this presentation." ["post_status"]=> string(7) "publish" ["comment_status"]=> string(4) "open" ["ping_status"]=> string(4) "open" ["post_password"]=> string(0) "" ["post_name"]=> string(17) "laurel-papworth-2" ["to_ping"]=> string(0) "" ["pinged"]=> string(0) "" ["post_modified"]=> string(19) "2008-07-24 21:39:10" ["post_modified_gmt"]=> string(19) "2008-07-25 02:39:10" ["post_content_filtered"]=> string(0) "" ["post_parent"]=> int(0) ["guid"]=> string(91) "http://westciv.com/webdirections08/blog/laurel-papworth-the-business-of-online-communities/" ["menu_order"]=> int(0) ["post_type"]=> string(4) "post" ["post_mime_type"]=> string(0) "" ["comment_count"]=> string(1) "0" ["filter"]=> string(3) "raw" } ["queried_object"]=> object(stdClass)#438 (10) { ["term_id"]=> string(2) "79" ["name"]=> string(10) "folksonomy" ["slug"]=> string(10) "folksonomy" ["term_group"]=> string(1) "0" ["term_order"]=> string(1) "0" ["term_taxonomy_id"]=> string(2) "79" ["taxonomy"]=> string(8) "post_tag" ["description"]=> string(0) "" ["parent"]=> string(1) "0" ["count"]=> string(1) "2" } ["queried_object_id"]=> int(79) }

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Laurel Papworth — The business of online communities

A presentation given at Web Directions South, Sydney Australia, September 29 2006.

Laurel Papworth Portrait

It seems that everyone is talking about user generated content and online communities these days. But how will citizen journalism, user-​​generated content, the Blogosphere, tagging, ranking, and Wiki knowledge reshape branding and your business? How do you manage and scale this community and then hand control to your users (and how do you explain to the boss what you’ve just done?). Gain an understanding that dialogue is the new content and learn how to maximise the benefits (and minimise the pitfalls) of creating online communities in this presentation. See the slides and hear the podcast »

Thomas Vander Wal — IA for the “Come to Me Web”

A presentation given at Web Directions South, Sydney Australia, September 29 2006.

Thomas Vander Wal Portrait

In this specialised session Thomas gets us up to speed with his “Come to Me Web” framework for structuring information and web sites. This framework includes the “Model of Attraction”, Personal InfoCloud, and Folksonomy. This ads the focus of designing and developing for information use across devices and context. With this framework we can consider mobile, broadband, web storage and personal off-​​line storage of information and its implications as we structure our information and sites. See the slides and hear the podcast »

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