Managing Online Forums - A New Book By Patrick O'Keefe

Patrick and I go way back in web terms, but met for the first time this year at SXSW.

Your Community is a Party Waiting to Happen

You can find the slides for this talk here.

Tagging for Mom and Pop

We stayed at a small mom and pop “resort" in the San Juan Islands last weekend called WestBeach Resort. There were three families there and all have at least one blog. Everyone took pictures and everyone has Flickr. Aside from marveling at the total nerd-dom of all involved, I thought about tagging.

I’ve tagged all of my photos from the trip on Flickr (and this post) with the “westbeach” tag. This made me think about the folks who run WestBeach and what this tagging stuff means to them. Here are some (admittedly idealistic) thoughts…