The presentation I will be doing next Wednesday at the AADE Annual Meeting 2011 in Las Vegas with Hope Warshaw (@HopeWarshaw), Amy Tenderich (@AmyDBMine) from DiabetesMine and David Edelman (@DavidTalk) from Diabetes Daily.
Ponencia que voy a hacer como parte de la IV Jornada sobre Comunidades Virtuales: “El poder de un click”, via Zipcast para estudiantes de la Escuela de Comunicaciones de la Universidad Panamericana, campus Ciudad de México, el 16 de mayo del 2011.
In preparation for a few coming presentations I will be doing about patient communities and other related topics, I went back to this great presentation from NTC 2010 where I was part of an amazing panel of online community experts. Hope you find it useful.
One presentation at last week’s Nonprofit Technology Conference in DC that I wish I had attended…
It will take you about 50 minutes to watch the video, but it’s worth every minute of it. Jonathan Richman is one of the most knowledgeable people in social health out there.
The Lead Admin of TuDiabetes posted this BRILLIANT video… if you run an online community or participate in one, do yourself (and others) a favor and WATCH IT!
A friend of mine posted this quesiton on Quora: What is the best platform for creating a niche social network on? Here’s my reply:
I would recommend one of three options:
1) Ning: if you want to scale your network. They offer three plans (all paid), the least expensive of which lets you really get a good feel for the platform at a very low price. You can go with the full feature set and premium support for just under $50 per month.
We have been running two networks on Ning, with nearly 19,000 and 13,000 members respectively, since 2007 with very good results.
Pros:
Cons:
2) Buddypress: I can’t talk about scalability with this platform (I don’t have enough experience with it), but to the extent that Buddypress is a plug-in that ties in so well with the world’s best blogging platform, I can’t think of a better option if you prefer not to use Ning.
Pros:
Cons:
3) GroupSite: If you don’t have plans to grow your niche network too much, I can share the experience I have seen with a 30-40 member network of artists that runs on GroupSite and works beautifully for what they need. It is a platform that is best for you if you need your members to not just interact and connect but also actively collaborate.
They still run under a Freemium model (a free option that is ad-supported… which I am sure will disappear eventually for the same reasons that Ning’s free option went away). The paid Pro option for small groups (under 50) is competitive in pricing with Ning.
For even more options, I suggest reading this list. In the list you will find many other options, most of which are variations on the same themes.
Yesterday, while training our new Social Media person, I discovered something on the Diabetes Hands Foundation Facebook page (I never cease to be amazed at how many things they change without announcing them…) that comes in handy to fight spam on your Facebook page.
If you are an Admin of a Facebook page, you will see at the top of your page (below the Updates box) a Spam option you can click on.
When you click on it, you are presented with the equivalent on Facebook to your Spam or Junk folder on your email. Pretty handy-dandy! I don’t know exactly how they are designating posts as spam, but I assume they must be throwing in there anything that follows spammy behaviors, such as posts that are copied and pasted in multiple places with little or no changes.
If you concur with their judgement about a post being spammy (as in the case below):
you can remove the post and ban the person from your page as you used to be able to do before.
If you feel the post has been designated as spam by error, you can also correct that by choosing the “Unmark as Spam” option from the dropdown in the corner, as shown here:
So, what do you make of this resource Facebook gives you to keep spammers at bay on your Facebook pages?