e-mint http://www.e-mint.org.uk the association of online community professionals Sun, 29 Jan 2012 15:41:57 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 Vircomm 2012 http://www.e-mint.org.uk/2012/01/29/vircomm-2012/ http://www.e-mint.org.uk/2012/01/29/vircomm-2012/#comments Sun, 29 Jan 2012 15:41:40 +0000 jen http://www.e-mint.org.uk/?p=198 Time is running out to get your tickets to Vircomm 2012!   If you can be in London on Feb 9th & have even the vaguest interest in online communities, you should be there!

Check out the Agenda – you don’t want to miss the session on best practices of online human behaviour, or the one on gaming communities, or maybe the metrics session is for you?   There’s also a keynote from Joshua March from conversocial & speakers from Moshi Monsters, Huffington Post, Crisp Thinking, CEOP, emoderation, Tempero, iFroggy, Elzware, Patients Like Me & more.

There will be an e-mint-up drinks session after the conference.   Details to be announced.

FYI, Vircomm’s twitter account – @Vircomm12

Hope to see you there!

]]> http://www.e-mint.org.uk/2012/01/29/vircomm-2012/feed/ 0 e-mint’s 2011 review http://www.e-mint.org.uk/2012/01/04/e-mints-2011-review/ http://www.e-mint.org.uk/2012/01/04/e-mints-2011-review/#comments Wed, 04 Jan 2012 06:39:06 +0000 jen http://www.e-mint.org.uk/?p=181 In 2011, there were 1,084 posts made to the e-mint group.   September was the slowest month with 43 messages and January was the most active with 175 messages.

We managed to have 4 e-mintup f2f sessions during the year, including 1 in Bristol.   Thanks to the e-minters who organised those!  (If you’re interested in helping us organise an evening, please get in touch).

And after years & years of people suggesting e-mint host a conference, we’re putting our toe in the water with Vircomm Summit 2012 on Feb 9th.  The lovely & wonderful Rebecca Newton & Oxana Morozowska have been working hard to bring together an amazing schedule of events.

If you haven’t purchased a ticket for this event, get in quick!  Early bird tickets have been extended til Jan 9th!

On the list, we talked about a whole range of topics including:

  • Should a community for 5-12 year olds have a Facebook page (as FB doesn’t allow those age groups)?
  • Profanity filters – good? bad? useless?
  • Facebook,  Facebook, Facebook & some more Facebook
  • Social media vs online community – what are the differences
  • Is social media too young of a field to have ‘experts’ and ‘gurus’?
  • Should you delete a community member’s posts when the member deactivates their account
  • Lots of job postings!

Hope everyone has a fantastic 2012!  – Jen

 

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]]> http://www.e-mint.org.uk/2012/01/03/e-mint-history/feed/ 0 Want to join e-mint? http://www.e-mint.org.uk/2012/01/03/join-e-mint/ http://www.e-mint.org.uk/2012/01/03/join-e-mint/#comments Tue, 03 Jan 2012 10:01:23 +0000 jen http://www.e-mint.org.uk/?p=84 e-mint uses Yahoo! Groups to manage our list. The e-mail list is where all the conversation occurs.

Yes, that choice definitely illustrates how long e-mint has been around! ;)

If you’d like to join us, go to the e-mint group and click the blue ‘Join this Group!’ button on the right side of the page. You will need to create or login to a Yahoo! account.

You can also follow us on twitter: @e_mint

You can learn more here…

]]> http://www.e-mint.org.uk/2012/01/03/join-e-mint/feed/ 0 Vircomm 2012 – Early bird tix for a few more days http://www.e-mint.org.uk/2012/01/02/vircomm-2012-early-bird-tix-for-a-few-more-days/ http://www.e-mint.org.uk/2012/01/02/vircomm-2012-early-bird-tix-for-a-few-more-days/#comments Mon, 02 Jan 2012 04:15:35 +0000 jen http://www.e-mint.org.uk/?p=179 In case you’ve been putting off buying tickets to Vircomm on Feb 9th, we have some great news for you!!  With all the season’s greetings going on,  the Vircomm team have extended the early bird ticket sales til Jan 9th!

Go buy your tickets now!   You’ll save just about £100 if you buy before Jan 9th.  (early bird tix are £249)

This is going to be an awesome day – check out the schedule!

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