15 minutes of concentrated analysis and advice about social media in platform and product design
Episode 28 | 23:35 | Randy Farmer & Scott Moore
Scott and Randy discuss the (mis)use of the various forms of the "ban" tool, and provide alternative techniques.
Episode 27 | 12:43 | Marc Smith, Scott Moore & Randy Farmer
Marc, Scott, and Randy talk about recent changes at social platform companies as they wrestle with the ethics of their customers causing conflict, such as racism/sexism in AirBNB and Nextdoor.
Episode 26 | 21:31 | Scott Moore & Randy Farmer
Scott and Randy tear into the history and problems of comments on "news" sites, and identify the most overlooked problem. They then talk about current and future solutions.
Episode 25 | 19:13 | Marc Smith
Part 4 of our Social Network Analysis Series. Marc details how seeking out specific influential people, or mayors, in your topic areas can lead to better engagement with new networks of people.
Episode 23 | 19:50 | Marc Smith, Randy Farmer & Scott Moore
You KNOW Marc, Randy, and Scott couldn't let Twitter messing with Favorites and Facebook Reactions go without some spirited discussion.
Episode 22 | 21:18 | Randy Farmer & Scott Moore
This episode is for people starting an online community based on an existing group, family, friends, team, club, fans, church, guild, or hobby enthusiast.
Episode 21 | 14:56 | Marc Smith, Scott Moore & Randy Farmer with Justin Isaf
This is the third in our series of episodes critiquing Huffing Posts changes in commenting policies and technology. This time, we interview an insider: Justin Isaf who was in charge of community at HuffPo in 2011 and 2012.
Episode 20 | 12:36 | Scott Moore & Randy Farmer
Scott and Randy continue sharing thoughts and observations inspired by ForumCon 2014, held in June. This time focusing on the transformation of the industry driven by mobile (keyboardless) devices.
Episode 19 | 13:33 | Scott Moore & Randy Farmer
Scott and Randy share thoughts and observations inspired by ForumCon 2014, held in June.
Episode 18 | 14:30 | Scott Moore & Marc Smith with Alexy Khrabrov
After updating our previous episodes about Huffington Post comments and Facebook reach, Scott and Marc speak with Alexy Khrabrov from By The Bay introducing the Scala programming language for large social datasets.
Episode 17 | 15:11 | Scott Moore & Marc Smith with Lee Rainie
Scott and Marc speak with Lee Rainie from Pew Internet Research about the new report Mapping Twitter Topic Networks: From Polarized Crowds to Community Clusters and how its findings can be used to better understand and grow online communities.
Episode 16 | 17:58 | Scott Moore, Randy Farmer & Marc Smith
Your hosts - Scott, Randy, and Marc discuss recent very public changes to Facebook reach as an indicator that companies may be looking in all the wrong places to connect with their community.
Episode 15 | 13:43 | Scott Moore & Randy Farmer with Matt Leacock
Bryce Glass returns to the show to join Scott and Randy interviewing Matt Leacock: A mild mannered UX designer by day ... but after hours he uses his super-powers to design award-winning boardgames.
Episode 14 | 16:17 | Marc Smith, Scott Moore & Randy Farmer
Marc, Scott, and Randy discuss LinkedIn's so-called SWAM (Site Wide Automatic Moderation) policy and Scott provides some tips on moderation system design.
Episode 13 | 13:22 | Marc Smith, Scott Moore & Randy Farmer with Howard Rheingold
Marc, Scott, and Randy interview Howard Rheingold - critic, writer, and teacher; his specialties are on the cultural, social and political implications of modern communication media.
Episode 12 | 12:46 | Randy Farmer, Scott Moore & Marc Smith
In this, our first Q&A episode, we answer a question from Ryan Crowe @doctorcrowe of Twilio, who asked us about what resources we use to keep up with our social media related areas of expertise.
Episode 11 | 13:23 | Scott Moore & Randy Farmer with danah boyd
Scott and Randy interview danah boyd about her book It's Complicated: the social lives of networked teens, coming out February 25th and available for preorder now.
Episode 10 | 14:02 | Marc Smith, Randy Farmer & Scott Moore
Marc, Randy and Scott discuss the inherent weaknesses of social sharing on the internet, and how recent NSA revelations have pushed privacy issues into the mainstream.
Episode 9 | 14:01 | Randy Farmer, Scott Moore & Marc Smith with Dr. Paul Resnick
We take a short, but deep, dive with Dr. Paul Resnick - a leading researcher in incentive based design, recommender, and reputation systems.
Episode 8 | 10:38 | Randy Farmer
Stories from The Vault #1 - Randy Farmer's story about community moderation issues for early kid-centric virtual worlds.
Episode 7 | 15:41 | Randy Farmer, Scott Moore & Marc Smith with T.L. Taylor and Trump
With big announcements from the game console companies, live-streaming has been thrust into the mainstream. Join us as we discuss the phenomenon with lead researcher T.L. Taylor and a full-time streamer Trump.
Episode 6 | 11:51 | Randy Farmer & Scott Moore with Chip Morningstar
An interview with Chip Morningstar (and podcast hosts: Randy Farmer and Scott Moore) who created and ran the first MMOs/Virtual Worlds.
Episode 5 | 13:26 | Randy Farmer, Scott Moore & Marc Smith
This episode we talk about the emerging idea of the social economy and how it interacts with the commons: existing crowdsourcing and volunteer-supplied content and resources.
Episode 4 | 12:20 | Randy Farmer, Scott Moore & Marc Smith
This episode we talk about web influence - what it is, how you measure it, and what you can do with it.
Episode 3 | 17:21 | Randy Farmer, Scott Moore & Marc Smith with Dr. Bernie Hogan
Second of two shows on Identity and Content Abuse Mitigation. Interview with Dr. Bernie Hogan of the Oxford Internet Institute - He says pseudonyms are important!
Episode 2 | 12:20 | Randy Farmer, Scott Moore & Marc Smith
Huffington Post to require ID to post, says "It's good for you!" We beg to differ!
Episode 1 | 11:51 | Randy Farmer, Scott Moore & Marc Smith
News: Is Facebook limiting access for apps to user data? Topic: What is a social network, why should a product designer care, and where do you get one? Tip: NodeXL - Instant Social Network Analysis