community

What I’ve Learned as a Serial (Community) Founder: The Community Life Cycle

During my presentation this past weekend in Paris, I focused on the various stages of community and how the leadership roles and individual member []

Social Media Geek: Adding Community Features to Your Blog Liveblog from BlogHer 11

The liveblog of my panel at BlogHer ’11: Social Media Geek | Adding Community Features to Your Blog is now online. I talked about BuddyPress and bbPress as ways to extend your WordPress site into a community and I definitely recommend checking it out. The liveblog is about 90% accurate, which is amazing since we were talking so fast, so if you see particular sentences with a few words missing you should know that the point being made was brilliant and we were coherent []

Getting Involved in Open Source Software

Here’s a presentation I gave at the Girl Geek Dinners in Milan on October 24, 2008, with Bruna Gardella. There’s a version in Italian, too. Some highlights from the presentation: What is Open Source (OS) Why Open Source Open Source in the world The Girl Geek and the Open Source World How to Contribute Appendix A: Some Open Source Alternatives for Proprietary Software Open Source and the Girl Geek (English)http://static.slideshare.net/swf/ssplayer2.swf?doc=ggdosmasterenglish-1231708985747496-2&stripped_title=open-source-and-the-girl-geek-presentation View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: software geek)