Posts Tagged ‘Best Practices’:

BostonPHP: MediaWiki in Production

Earlier this week, I was happy to have the chance for Optaros to host a BostonPHP meeting again – we used to do so in the old Canal St. offices but hadn’t done so in a while – certainly not since moving to Milk St.

The topic was MediaWiki in production, with presentations by Greg Rundlett of Harvard’s Initiative in Innovative Computing (IIC) and Daniel Barrett, who wrote the (O’Reilly) book on MediaWiki, and uses it in production at VistaPrint.
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Resources for Designing Online Communities or Social Web Applications

A couple of recent publications on designing / building social web applications that you should check out. More to say about each after the jump.

  • Joshua Porter on the Bungee Line Podcast
  • Chris Brogan’s Social Media and Social Networking Starting Points
  • Forrester Report from Jeremiah Owyang on Online Community Best Practices

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