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WISE KIDS in WALES

I've just returned from 2 weeks in Wales and London (with a few days in North Yorkshire) and I wanted to say a few words about Wales and the WISEKIDS/WISP Conference in Swansea and Bangor.

The conference was well organised - really impressive. Continue

Posted on February 15, 2010 at 7:46pm —

Rebecca Newton

Gaming in 1980

I just found this jpg of a game I was completely addicted to in 1979 and 1980 while "working" at Duke University. I took a 3 month post as an administrative assistant and had about 1 hour of work to do each day so naturally I spent 7 hours a day playing "Adventure." This was an early computer game developed by Will Crowther. I was completely enamored with this game, which was text based. A far cry from today's gaming, that's for sure.

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Posted on September 7, 2009 at 9:02pm —

Rebecca Newton

Why I left Building and Managing Communities for the Software Dev Industry

I spent 1/3 of my life in building and managing online communities and a fair amount of time in the 80s building and managing offline communities as well. If someone had predicted I'd be working for a software development company, I would have put all my AOL stock (aka lunch money) on that bet. I love working in community and feel like the luckiest person on the planet to be a professional in the field. I now feel like lightning struck twice and I have the best of both worlds - being part of tea… Continue

Posted on August 24, 2009 at 9:16am —

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SXSWi Panel Picker - Vote early, Vote often!

SXSWi panel picker closed: (sxsw.com)





Title of Panel: Hi ###, What's ###? Filters, Technology & Behavior Management

Panelists include: Linda Criddle, Tamara Littleton, Stephen Kline, yours truly.

URL: http://bit.ly/19wTeY

This panel discussion will examine the technical, social and legal challenges of UGC, behavior management and communicating w… Continue

Posted on August 23, 2009 at 6:00am —

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Suicide and Online Communities - iFroggy Network

http://tinyurl.com/nc4jck

Dealing with Suicide on Your Online Community or Forums: How You Can Help and Protect Everyone.

My friend Patrick O'Keefe over at iFroggy.com (and the author of "Managing Online Forums" http://www.managingonlineforums.com) has written a really good article on dealing with suicide threats in forums or communities.

This is Child Safety Week in the US, and though the emphasis is mainly on offline safety, I think this is a great article to spotlight for the online world.… Continue

Posted on June 24, 2009 at 6:08pm — 1 Comment

Useful Listservs, Tools, Services, Sites and Blogs

ListServs, Sites and Blogs
e-mint.org.uk (e-mint@yahoogroups.com) *** Mashable.com
sxswi-socialites (sxswi-socialites@yahoogroups.com)
OnlineCommunityReport.com *** CommunityGuy.com *** Socialnetworkingwatch.com
TechCrunch.com *** Slashdot.org

Moderation Companies and Tools
emoderation.com Tamara Littleton
metaversemodsquad.com Amy Pritchard
Crisp Thinking.com Andrew Lintell

Customer Service Outsourcing
Sitel.com David Potter

The Widget Wizards
ClearSpring.com

Hard Copy Books
Managing Online Forums by Patrick O'Keefe
Community Building on the Web by Amy Jo Kim
The Cluetrain Manifesto by Rick Levine, Doc Searles, Christopher Locke, David Weinberger
SmartMobs by Howard Rheingold
Online Communities: Designing Usability, Supporting Sociability by Jenny Preece

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At 11:15am on September 3, 2009, ex Habbo X said…
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