mashable.com — There have been numerous ‘revolts’ on Digg (social news), hundreds of thousands of users have created numerous groups to stage protests on Facebook (social networking), and hundreds of blog posts have been written about how terrible Twitter’s service and up-time used to be and what a poor job they were doing in communicating their problems ..
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daniellesmynameJan 28, 2009
These guidelines apply for almost any online community. I recently worked at an office where the Owner and CEO of the company had a blog available on their intranet. He would blog weekly about updates in the industry, happenings in the office, plans for the future, and occasionally even looking back at the past. It helps that his writings were engaging and I genuinely wanted to read them, even looked forward to them, but I think it was an excellent example of reaching out to your ?users?. I have known this man almost my whole life (I grew up with his kids), and have had ties to the company since it started almost 20 years ago, but many of the other employees at the office have never even met the man. Not only that, but employees always leave comments on his posts- adding their two cents, bringing up other points, or even just thanking him for the post. It has established a community within the office. People always stress how important communication is, and no matter how big the company, or what the nature of their work is, these tips for communication, and for handling problems are valuable.
str3amaJan 29, 2009
Well there's a good deal of speculation over whether Kevin Rose actually changed his stance over the HD-DVD key because of the user revolt and risked facing a lawsuit, or whether it was because by then the hd-dvd key had been so far spread that even the HD-DVD lawyers weren't bother trying to have it pulled, and so Kevin knew he could save face since it no longer mattered. I wonder if he still sleeps on a "sofa"?
joshualamgroupJan 29, 2009
Oh no you can't poke them too..
dirtyvicarJan 29, 2009
Mr. BabyMan's crying you a river.
javieroJan 29, 2009
Rabble rabble rabble rabble !!!
flyingphotogJan 29, 2009
Power-users.
ghundaJan 29, 2009
I find that genocide is a fairly essential element to any revolution.
airabongcoSep 11, 2009
I don't think that a 'social media revolt' does pretty much damage, unless, I guess, reinforced by a successful offline movement.