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Communities and Tech: Build Which and What Will Come?
The document discusses building communities and technology. It mentions that the author's grandfather helped build a lighthouse in Clare, Ireland from 1935-1936. It also mentions the author's other grandfather who delivered letters daily by bicycle in Donegal. The author has taught over 2,500 students in 15 years as a lecturer at NUI Galway and does social media research at Insight. He also started an online gaming forum called boards.ie in 1998 that now has 2.5 million monthly users and over 2.5 billion page views. The document discusses whether to build the technology and the community will come or to build the community and the technology will come. It also mentions searching for, adopting and embracing existing groups, conversing with users
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- 1. Communities & Tech Build which and what will come? @JohnBreslin @NUIGalway @Boards @TechnologyVoice @StartupGalway Guillom at commons.wikimedia
- 2. Black Head Mygrandfather was the first lighthouse keeper here, having helped build it from 1935 to 1936 with the Galway Harbour and Irish Lights Commissioners (This Clare lighthouse was requested by the community of transatlantic liner captains and freighter masters using Galway Bay) Allgau at en.wikipedia
- 3. Glenties My othergrandfather was a Donegal postman who delivered letters daily to the local community all over the glens by bicycle Marksie531 at en.wikipedia
- 4. NUI Galway •As a lecturer, I’m also dealing in “signals and communications” of a sort • Have taught over 2,500 students at the University during the past 15 years • Doing social media research at Insight toms at flickr
- 5. Boards • boards.iestarted life as a gaming community forum I set up in 1998 • Now reaches 2.5M users each month • 125M users / 2.5B pages since 2005
- 6. Build the techand the community will come? It’s like you’re building a lonely house Mayqel at commons.wikimedia
- 7. Build the communityand the tech will come! Your users should feel they are part of something they’ve helped to build HM Marsh at British Library's Picturing Canada
- 8. Search for, adoptand embrace existing groups Unknown at commons.wikimedia
- 9. Converse with yourusers, digest, assimilate good ideas brunogirin at flickr
- 10. Recognise and highlight your hubs and connectors Calvinius at commons.wikimedia
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