Posts in chronological order with tag Wikipedia

Do you aspire to build a brand community or a community brand?

by Chris Grams July 13, 2010

In my day job at New Kind, I spend quite a bit of my time working on brand-related assignments, particularly for organizations interested in community-based approaches to building their brands.
When marrying the art of community building to the art of brand building, it’s hard not to talk about building “brand [...]

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Five questions about building community with Chris Blizzard of Mozilla

by Chris Grams March 30, 2010

I’ve always been a fan of the Mozilla Foundation, and not just because of the Firefox web browser. As catalyst for some of the great communities in the open source world, Mozilla is something of a recipe factory for what to do right when it comes to building community. As it turns out, Mozilla’s Director [...]

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Is Jaron Lanier just a hater, or should we be paying attention?

by Chris Grams March 16, 2010

Last week, my friend Greg DeKoenigsberg posted an article about Jaron Lanier’s negative comments regarding open textbooks. At almost very same time, I happened to stumble upon an article Jaron wrote back in 2006 criticizing Wikipedia.
The common theme is Jaron taking issue with what he calls “online collectivism,” “the hive mind,” and even “digital Maoism” [...]

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