What Else We're Reading

Thu, 12/20/2007 - 3:12pm — Willow Cook

One social-media and community expert extols the virtues of Twitter (community building! idea sharing! gate jumper!) and offers tips for using the social networking and micro-blogging service.

Learn how to set up a subgroup of moderators for your online community.

Why aren't people commenting on your blog? Is that you sound like a press release? Seem like a know-it-all? Discover the source of that deafening silence.

The New York Times on youthful activism today: "America needs a jolt of the idealism, activism and outrage (it must be in there) of Generation Q. That’s what twentysomethings are for — to light a fire under the country. But they can’t e-mail it in, and an online petition or a mouse click for carbon neutrality won’t cut it. They have to get organized in a way that will force politicians to pay attention rather than just patronize them."

Idealware and NTEN are offering a free new report on Getting Your Systems Talking: A Framework to Evaluate APIs and Data Exchange Features (registration required) that "provides a detailed evaluation framework and rating scheme that will allow someone with a reasonable technical background to compare and score the solutions provided by different software applications."

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