Communities and Networks Connection Hotlists

Now that we are a couple of months into the “signal sharing” of the Communities and Networks Connection, I wanted to share the top posts people have clicked into on the site (courtesy of the magic of Tony Karrer).  I find that sometimes I am paying attention to the site, and other times it is off my radar. But when I look at the top hit list below, I recognize many of the posts as ones I have read, so for me, personally, there is resonance with what other people are finding interesting. And I find THAT interesting.

The following are the top posts in March from featured sources based on social signals, with a few annotations from posts that I found useful.  Notice how many are about Twitter!

1. Twitter Compared to IM, Email and Forums– Collaborative Thinking, March 2, 2009
2. Social Media ROI: Measuring the unmeasurable?– FreshNetworks, March 22, 2009
3. How to use Twitter for PR– FreshNetworks, March 15, 2009
4. Tom Vander Wall Nails My Sharepoint Experience– Full Circle, March 23, 2009
5. Circling Around To Enterprise 2.0 Again– Collaborative Thinking, March 12, 2009
6. Understanding Communities of Practice– Collaborative Thinking, March 6, 2009
7. Crowdsource as a way to create a community– Library Clips, March 15, 2009
8. Team-based CoPs compared to cross-functional CoPs– Library Clips, March 11, 2009  (John and I have been having fun in the comments and writing on many related things lately. I like this kind of “juice!”)
9. CoP Series #6: Community Leadership in Learning– Full Circle, March 10, 2009
10. Twitter as Search Engine or Community Seed– Full Circle, March 6, 2009
11. Twitter 3 years on, and why it’s the killer app!– Library Clips, March 4, 2009
12. Twitter: Measuring clickthrus Social Media Metrics– Laurel Papworth- Social Network Strategy, March 16, 2009
13. CoP Series #5: Is my community a community of practice?– Full Circle, March 5, 2009
14. CoP Series #4: Practice Makes Perfect– Full Circle, March 3, 2009
15. Examples of online communities in the financial services industry– FreshNetworks, March 17, 2009 (I deeply appreciate examples and cases)
16. Why do people write reviews?– FreshNetworks, March 12, 2009
17. Enterprise 2.0 for an Enterprise of One – Part Two – Content Monitoring– Portals and KM, March 10, 2009
18. The ten commandments of managing online communities– FreshNetworks, March 7, 2009
19. Future of Social Networks by Charlene Li– Elsua, March 20, 2009
20. CoP Series #9: Community Heartbeats– Full Circle, March 19, 2009
21. CoP Series #8: Content and Community– Full Circle, March 17, 2009
22. Social media ROI – a calculator for not for profit campaigns– FreshNetworks, March 25, 2009
23. Response to “SharePoint 2007: Gateway Drug to Enterprise Social Tools”– Michael Sampson – Currents, March 15, 2009
24. Red-Tails in Love: Birdwatchers as a community of practice– Digital Habitats, March 28, 2009 (interesting that my post on our book blog did better than the same post on my blog!)
25. Best Buy & Enterprise Social Networking– Collaborative Thinking, March 19, 2009 (This post also showed up as a shared link a lot in my Twitter stream.)
26. McKinsey on Making Enterprise 2.0 Work is Reminder of Process Centric KM in Early 90s. – Portals and KM, March 18, 2009
27. Enterprise 2.0 for an Enterprise of One – Part Four – Content Collecting, Assembling, and Creation – Potential New Approaches – Portals and KM, March 12, 2009
28. Enterprise 2.0 for an Enterprise of One – Introduction– Portals and KM, March 9, 2009
29. Team-based communities are about change, commitment and tasks– Library Clips, March 8, 2009
30. Tinkering and Playing with Knowledge– Full Circle, March 8, 2009
31. Turning Instant Messaging and Presence Upside-Down & Inside-Out– Collaborative Thinking, March 7, 2009 (I had not seen this one, but the title is so intriguing, I’m going to look at it next!)
32. Twitter: Skittles does a twitter bomb– Laurel Papworth- Social Network Strategy, March 2, 2009
33. The lies behind online ratings and reviews– FreshNetworks, March 27, 2009
34. Examples of online communities in the not-for-profit sector– FreshNetworks, March 5, 2009
35. Twitter for Business and Government and number of Australians– Laurel Papworth- Social Network Strategy, March 30, 2009
36. How to tell a story about yourself without sounding like an ego-maniac– Anecdote, March 26, 2009
37. Red-Tails in Love: Birdwatchers as a community of practice– Full Circle, March 26, 2009
38. CoP Series #10: Stewarding Technology for Community– Full Circle, March 24, 2009
39. Workflow 2.0– Library Clips, March 23, 2009
40. Burton Group Field Research Study: Social Networking Within the Enterprise– Collaborative Thinking, March 18, 2009
41. Enterprise 2.0 for an Enterprise of One – Part Five – Content Publishing and Archiving– Portals and KM, March 13, 2009 (OK, you guys, look at how many times “Enterprise 2.0” shows up.  And also see how multipart blog series – mine and others – are showing up on this list. Coincidence?)
42. CoP Series #7: Roles and Scalability– Full Circle, March 12, 2009
43. Does your story have impact?– Anecdote, March 11, 2009
44. Enterprise 2.0 for an Enterprise of One – Part Three – Content Collecting, Assembling, and Creation – Current Approach– Portals and KM, March 11, 2009
45. Impact of Social Software Within the Enterprise by Jon Iwata– Elsua, March 9, 2009
46. Twitter in the Workplace– Collaborative Thinking, March 6, 2009
47. Business Blogs Trump Social Networking Sites as New Business Drivers – Portals and KM, March 4, 2009

Here are the top  from April so far:

1. A simple explanation of the Cynefin Framework– Anecdote, April 2, 2009
2. Social search, Help engines, and Sense-making– Library Clips, April 1, 2009
3. Examples of online communities in healthcare– FreshNetworks, April 8, 2009
4. 45 provocative propositions about using social technology– Social Reporter, April 6, 2009
5. Is cassette culture to thank for web2.0?– FreshNetworks, April 4, 2009
6. Helping councils learn to share with social media– Social Reporter, April 5, 2009
7. Extending the customer experience – the Zappos story– FreshNetworks, April 10, 2009
8. Using Twitter for the wrong reasons– FreshNetworks, April 9, 2009
9. Big brands in social media: Ford and Southwest Airlines– FreshNetworks, April 2, 2009
10. Sources for social technology propositions – please mix your own– Social Reporter, April 10, 2009
11. The Semantic Web is Now AKA Web 3.0 But is It Really?– Portals and KM, April 8, 2009
12. netWorked Learning:connecting formal learning to the world– Full Circle, April 3, 2009
13. Social networks: acquisition or retention tools for marketers?– FreshNetworks, April 5, 2009
14. Are online communities all a game?– FreshNetworks, April 3, 2009
15. Blog networking study: choosing channels– Mathemagenic, April 9, 2009
16. Can you shift your organisational culture by introducing social media?– Joitske Hulsebosch, April 5, 2009
17. IBM Lotusphere 2009 Highlights – Social Softwre in the Enterprise by Chris Reckling & Sandra Kogan– Elsua, April 3, 2009
18. Using experts to get real engagement in online communities– FreshNetworks, April 3, 2009
19. Hybrid ecosystem of narratives– Taming the spaces, April 12, 2009
20. The Company as Wiki by Best Buy– Elsua, April 11, 2009
21. The cultures of collaboration – Inside Knowledge– Full Circle, April 11, 2009
22. Technology Stewardship and Unexpected Uses– Digital Habitats, April 9, 2009
23. Spidergram to visualise community orientation, adoption, and requests– Library Clips, April 8, 2009
24. Behavior Guidelines: Unblocking Social Media at the Firewall– Laurel Papworth- Social Network Strategy, April 6, 2009 (I enjoyed this one a lot)
25. The Social Media Experiment Is Over by Adam Christensen– Elsua, April 3, 2009
26. Grass roots inspiration from graduating social entrepreneurs– Social Reporter, April 3, 2009
27. Winemakers’ Communities of Practice– Full Circle, April 1, 2009
28. Blog networking study: establishing and maintaining relations via blogging– Mathemagenic, April 9, 2009
29. User Adoption Strategies for Lotus Connections– Michael Sampson – Currents, April 8, 2009
30. Why is word-of-mouth for brands so important?– FreshNetworks, April 4, 2009
31. The Net Promoter Score and the value of Promoters– FreshNetworks, April 1, 2009
32. Challenge: SharePoint and NGOs/NonProfits -go or no go?– Full Circle, April 10, 2009
33. Technology Stewardship and Unexpected Uses– Full Circle, April 9, 2009
34. Communities, e-participation, crowdsourcing, innovation, selling content: variegated links– eme ka eme, April 7, 2009
35. The Many Meanings of Our Words– Full Circle, April 7, 2009
36. Monday Video: Share– Full Circle, April 6, 2009
37. Comments on Jeff McKenna’s Agile Development Blog– Portals and KM, April 6, 2009
38. UC And Web 2.0 / Enterprise 2.0– Collaborative Thinking, April 3, 2009
39. Digital Habitats Community Orientation Spidergram Activity– Digital Habitats, April 2, 2009
40. Travel Budget Slashes, Meeting Crunch and Going Virtual– Full Circle, April 2, 2009
41. Successful Social Networking for Business Collaboration by Ed Brill– Elsua, April 1, 2009
42. Nancy Dixon’s Conversations Matters Blog– Portals and KM, April 1, 2009
43. The Ultimate Question: The Interview– Community Guy, April 8, 2009
44. Our top five posts in March– FreshNetworks, April 7, 2009
45. Slides from SharePoint Master Class in Europe– Michael Sampson – Currents, April 6, 2009
46. Have a disagreement? Resolve it virtually– Endless Knots, April 2, 2009

I can also sort out the top keywords, but I have to mess a bit with how they display, so I’ll save that for a separate time.