Jenn over @ memelabs recently posted a brilliant analogy comparing social networks to high school.  A sniggering must read.  I encourage you to visit and add your own submissions.

Funny thing is, I recently started a social network for my own high school reunion, happening this weekend.  Some things never change…..

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The take up of Twitter seems to be on the rise. No, I’m not an industry analyst and I don’t have any figures to prove it. It’s the perceptible Community buzz, and stream of new applications, that lead me to this conclusion.
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I’ve been using Twitter quite a bit lately. I signed up for an account months ago, but without a good search interface it was a little bit like finding your way around a strange place in the dark. Now that you can find people by location, name, or email, I’m just starting to get a feel for Twitter’s power.

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I’ve decided to list a few of the places you’ll find me out there. Maybe we’ll bump into each other.

(Still in line waiting for a BrightKite invite tho’, hint, hint, anyone…)

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Creation of the Community eXperience follows the same simple steps as any other organizational undertaking: decide what you want to do, do it, see if it worked. Pretty straightforward, eh?

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While I continue to craft the next installment of CXMatters, and juggle other commitments, I thought I’d share a post from another community, which has been around for a while and really demonstrates what the CX can be…..

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It’s been just over 2 years since I joined UXnet, and about 6 months since I was appointed to the Board. During that time, I’ve been on several conference calls with fellow UX’ers and Board members - people I feel I know, but whom I’ve never met. Finally, the UX Board was set to meet in New York City for my first face to face with my colleges.

And then, the storm hit.

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This article explores what a Web Presence really is in the Web 2.0 world, and how establishing your own community, as well as becoming part of others’ communities (i.e.: making use of Social Networking) is now really a critical part of the recipe. Future articles will delve deeper into Designing for the Community Experience (CX) itself.

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This blog was created to address what I consider to be a void in the eXperience Design (XD) field. We have a sub-set of XD known as User eXperience (UX), but not Community eXperience (CX).

So there you have it – I stake claim to the term.

I do not purport to out-think my heroes in this field. On the contrary, you’ll see on the Blogroll links to some very thoughtful people, IMHO. As my buddy Sean would say, we all provide our opinions, pan for gold, and form our own nuggets. That’s what I intend to do here.

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