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Launching The Community Engine
The community engine aims to help companies thrive in the information economy by developing electronic communities around their products and services.
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Companies derive value from online communities by using them to improve product development, facilitate customer service, increase customer loyalty, and attract new customers. This post marks the launch of The Community Engine. The Community Engine is dedicated to helping companies create thriving online communities.
The Community Engine's launch offerings focus on blogging communities. Blogging is a form of pushbutton publishing on the Internet that dramatically facilitates the creation of online communities. The Community Engine's services that help achieve the benefits of online blogging communities include:
- Determining the requirements for all types of blogging communities as well as designing, implementing, and hosting them.
- Consulting on strategies for making participation in online communities more effective and efficient.
- Training in best technology and social practices to realize the potential of online communities.
The Community Engine has extensive experience with all major blogging platforms, the underlying open (xml) protocols that knit them together, and their programming languages. Further, The Community Engine's Founder and Principal, Bud Gibson (bud@thecommunityengine.com) has years of experience developing functioning online communities. He presents and publishes on best practices for creating online communities regularly. The Community Engine is located in Ann Arbor, Michigan, within easy travel of anywhere in the continental U.S. For all inquiries regarding services, please contact Bud directly (bud@thecommunityengine.com).
Bud posted this on January 11, 2005
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being a programmer and all i thought you might be interested in this new blog site:
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Posted by: tom at January 11, 2005 10:56 PM
Bud.
As you know CCP is in the business of
1. Advising physicians frustrated with their professional lives +/or wishing to explore career alternatives.
2. Advising healthcare organizations on improving workplace satisfaction for their physician staff.
As this is a new field, I'm busy trying to find the optimum way to develop business. One approach is having dynamic website content using blogging software, in my case, Wordpress. I place a post of ~ 700 words each workday, using the material also as trial runs for a book I'm planning.
Hopefully you can help advise me on ways to build visitors to my site who would be attracted by discussion of issues relevant to physician careers.
I'll address specific questions as often as I can. If you're agreeable, I'll let my website designer also know about this online discussion.
I hope some of the issues we solve may have applicability to other individuals who are establishing similar types of boutique consulting practices.
Ivo
Posted by: Ivo Drury at January 25, 2005 10:16 PM
