Comments on: SNCR Symposium – Online Communities and the Natural Human Urge to ‘Help Out’ http://techprgems.com/2008/11/sncr-symposium-%e2%80%93-online-communities-and-the-natural-human-urge-to-help-out/ Conversations about PR, social media, technology and marketing -- with a special focus on the social media community in Greater Boston Wed, 03 Mar 2010 00:44:30 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Tim Allik http://techprgems.com/2008/11/sncr-symposium-%e2%80%93-online-communities-and-the-natural-human-urge-to-help-out/comment-page-1/#comment-1144 Tim Allik Mon, 17 Nov 2008 00:36:25 +0000 http://techprgems.com/?p=1270#comment-1144 Hi Beth, it was a pleasure meeting you as well. The SNCR symposium is unique among social media events because the research is deep, it's real and the findings are truly informative. There is quite a bit of speculation swirling around the blogopshere about how Obama might leverage his own online community in the future, as president. He'll certainly be in uncharted territory (again), but there is a lot of potential (again). Obama has proven beyond a shadow of a doubt the power of online communities when it comes to political movements. Politically active people involved in issues like Proposition 8 will certainly find and contribute to existing online communities or build new ones. I think this is democracy reborn, and I celebrate the new participatory politics we're witnessing today via the web. Hi Beth, it was a pleasure meeting you as well. The SNCR symposium is unique among social media events because the research is deep, it’s real and the findings are truly informative.

There is quite a bit of speculation swirling around the blogopshere about how Obama might leverage his own online community in the future, as president. He’ll certainly be in uncharted territory (again), but there is a lot of potential (again).

Obama has proven beyond a shadow of a doubt the power of online communities when it comes to political movements. Politically active people involved in issues like Proposition 8 will certainly find and contribute to existing online communities or build new ones.

I think this is democracy reborn, and I celebrate the new participatory politics we’re witnessing today via the web.

]]> By: Beth Dunn http://techprgems.com/2008/11/sncr-symposium-%e2%80%93-online-communities-and-the-natural-human-urge-to-help-out/comment-page-1/#comment-1143 Beth Dunn Sun, 16 Nov 2008 18:43:12 +0000 http://techprgems.com/?p=1270#comment-1143 Great meeting you at SNCR. I was also impressed with the insights in Francois' study, especially the suggestion that a marketing campaign requires constant input, but a movement takes on alife of its own. I wonder what will happen to the Yes We Can movement, now that Obama has been elected, and the Obama transition team is moving away from some of the openness that characterized its campaign's social media. Protesters across the country mobilized last week to rally against Prop 8 and similar legislation that forbids gay marriage. Many of these rallies features "Yes We Can" as chants and visible themes. Will the "Yes We Can" movement expand and enlarge into something else, as its originators "manage" it less? Great meeting you at SNCR. I was also impressed with the insights in Francois’ study, especially the suggestion that a marketing campaign requires constant input, but a movement takes on alife of its own.

I wonder what will happen to the Yes We Can movement, now that Obama has been elected, and the Obama transition team is moving away from some of the openness that characterized its campaign’s social media.

Protesters across the country mobilized last week to rally against Prop 8 and similar legislation that forbids gay marriage. Many of these rallies features “Yes We Can” as chants and visible themes.

Will the “Yes We Can” movement expand and enlarge into something else, as its originators “manage” it less?

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