Community

Writing and Styling and Posting, oh my

by erin on 12/01/2008

in Community,Interaction design,Social

As the writing of the book hits a good momentum, we are starting to share our work with our editors and the patterns with the public. It’s an interesting process, in that we are writing in DocBook – an xml format – and doing all the styling for the final online presentation as we go. [...]

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Moderating People

by erin on 09/30/2008

in Community,moderation

There is a really good article in the San Francisco Chronicle today about the Community team at flickr – run by Heather Champ. The article discusses the dilemmas and decisions the team Heather leads makes when confronted with millions of people interacting and sometimes misbehaving. Part art, part rulebook, a lot of gut on just [...]

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Deep in social thoughts

by erin on 09/17/2008

in Community,Pattern Library,Social

apologies for how quiet I have been for the last several weeks. I have been deep in the thick of writing and boy is it fun. The first chapter of our book, Designing Social Interfaces: Principles, Patterns and Best Practices sets some context and a bit of history – which if you know me at [...]

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