As many readers of this blog will have received a Kindle for Christmas I thought I should share my list of the free ebooks that I recommend stocking up on. UPDATE [12 Jan 2012]: Now translated into Catalan by Alvaro Martinez. UPDATE [20 Jan 2012]: Dan Gillmor’s We The Media added to make a round 20. Online journalism and community management
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Yesterday I chaired a panel on ‘UGC and Social Media’ at Birmingham’s Hello Culture event. Determined that it did not descend into the all-too-common obsession with tools that often characterises such discussions, I framed it from the start with the questions “Why should we care? Why should users care?” The panellists were grateful – and the tactic seemed to work.
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I’ve been meaning to blog for a while now about 2 excellent books I’ve read this year about communities online, both of which are pretty much essential reading for anyone involved in community management. The first is Andrew Lih’s book The Wikipedia Revolution. Lih is for me the world’s leading academic on Wikipedia, not least because he’s been a participant
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After the first two of my interviews with news organisations’ community editors , Reed Business Information’s Andrew Rogers blogged his own ’3 lessons‘ he’s learned from his time as Head of User Content Development. Reproduced by kind permission, here it is in full: 1. A community is only really a community if it builds (or builds on) genuine relationships between the members.
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