inCommunicado - eric eggertson

My 30 year reunion is coming up this fall, and I’ve said I’d pull together a website. Any suggestions for a good combination of web tools to help people post information, sign up for events, share photos, and generally stay informed about plans?
I’m looking at various wikis as possible platforms for most of the information. […]

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Ed Lee looks at the three options for reaching an audience with social media.
Building your own hub of activity has its risks.
The Web wasteland is strewn with ghost towns that thought they would become the next great portal.  I like Ed’s idea of experimenting before making a final decision about where you want […]

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The virtual natives are restless.  I’m waiting to see if this is an uprising of citizens for better corporate behaviour, or an effort to squash expression of opinions that don’t please some Second Life pioneers.
Residents of a portion of Second Life have voted to ban companies and agencies from their portion of the virtual world […]

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Gainer the Gopher was riding high on a swell of public support.  But now allegations have surfaced that he has been hiding his true species.
Globe and Mail columnist Allan Maki wrote an exposé that reveals Gainer may be a Richardson’s ground squirrel, or some other species.
"The irony here is that while the Stampeders are worried […]

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The claim that new marketing company ‘crayon’ was the first new company to launch in Second Life raised some eyebrows and hackles among the virtual world’s denizens.
The backlash against the launch was as much about a community feeling invaded by corporations that threaten to suck the creative life out of the online world as […]

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I guess amber alerts work.
A few years ago, when Tamra Keepness disappeared from her mother’s home near downtown Regina, there was some criticism that a province-wide alarm wasn’t raised immediately.
This week, when 10-year-old Zachary went missing in Whitewood, just off the Trans Canada highway, the RCMP were quick to issue an amber alert. Similar to […]

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There’s not a lot pretension among bloggers here in Saskatchewan.  We got together for a barbecue in Wascana Park Saturday, and there were more baseball caps and t-shirts than references to social media and Web 2.0.
That’s not to say the IQ level was lower than you would expect among a group of bloggers, or the […]

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Stowe Boyd has a response to established media organizations that pooh-pooh the online revolution that’s been taking place with social media in recent years:

Web culture is happening: a spontaneous global culture is emerging, and it is based on openness, inclusion, acceptance of diversity, and the desire to make the world a better place to live.
This […]

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Canada’s biggest credit union has never been afraid to try new things in the realm of community involvement.  So it shouldn’t be a surprise they’re going to start "a user-driven blog" that has a community focus.
A recent job posting by VanCity called for a passionate blogger who can "animate an online community where people in […]

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I’ve only met blogger Robert Scoble once, but my heart ached a bit as I read his account of rushing back to Montana to get to the bedside of his mother, who suffered a stroke.
The news today was worse, as doctors explained how much damage was done.
My own mother was hit by a stroke a […]

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A knowledge management community of practice that got punted by its online landlord, Yahoo Groups, successfully lobbied to get the information sharing group reinstated on Yahoo’s servers.

The fact the group has been active since 1999 and has
1,569 members didn’t slow Yahoo down when it got wind of possible
trademark infringements.
Moral of the story: When you build […]

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