Many online communities do not allow members to upload images to include in their posts. In such cases, members often rely on third party image hosting services. Among the most popular of these, for a long time, has been Photobucket.

There has been a lot of talk in the community industry about the Facebook Communities Summit, and how the company announced they had added the word "community" to their mission statement.

In May of 2001, I launched a martial arts community with a focus on respectful discussion and a generally family friendly atmosphere. The very next month, Bob Hubbard did the exact same thing.

It feels like the quality of discourse in the United States, and many other countries, gets worse every single day. But in online community settings, it is possible to identify the the threads to civil discourse and neutralize them.

Six and a half years ago, Kim England, global community director at multinational publishing company Pearson, led the company’s transition from a disjointed collection of more than 130 intranets, to an enterprise social network (ESN) powered by Jive.

When GoDaddy hired Christopher Carfi in 2014, it caught my attention. GoDaddy was a company that, at one time, I thought I would never want to be a customer of. Didn’t like the brand, didn’t like marketing, didn’t like upselling, didn’t like the old CEO.

There's a lot of money in the association space, especially when it comes to helping associations connect their members online.

All community professionals want to work at organizations where they have the buy-in to deeply invest in community. But many of us don't. We're fighting for that buy-in, so the true value of community can be realized.

"The branch of anthropology concerned with the study of human societies and cultures and their development." That's cultural anthropology, per Oxford.

According to our guest on this episode, much of the news industry is engaged in a battle they can't win, a fight over eyeballs and ad revenue with companies like Google and Facebook, where the terms will get worse and worse as time goes by.