Category Archives: Communities

EveryBlock releases source code

By Julie Starr | Published: July 6, 2009
If you’ve ever looked at everyblock.com and wondered how they do it, wonder no more. The creators have released the source code used to develop the site. Thanks to Kirk LaPointe for the link. EveryBlock is the brainchild of Adrian Holovaty, a journalist and programmer, and development team Paul Smith, Wilson Miner, Daniel X O’Neil, [...]
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NY Times enlists readers as community reporters

By Julie Starr | Published: June 7, 2009
The New York Times is asking readers to cover local body meetings as part of its The Local - Fort Greene/Clinton Hill blog initiative.
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‘Technology doesn’t create community’

By Julie Starr | Published: May 3, 2009
Via @shanerichmond comes another list of pointers on running good communities online.
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Online community management 101

By Julie Starr | Published: February 23, 2009
Here are some notes from a workshop I participated in at Webstock about managing and sustaining communities online. It was led by Heather Champ, community manager for Flickr, and Derek Powazek, founder of Fray and more recently MagCloud, a web-to-print publishing site I've been meaning to link to for a while (but that's for another post).
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