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The pick of community vendors?

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This looks useful as a starting place for thinking about proprietary community platforms. Also check out Sift of course! There’s a bigger analysis of using open source software for online communities by IBM, undertaken in 2006, here. There’s also a fun-looking forum on the subject hosted by IBM, though perhaps a tad too techi for me.

My colleague Jeremiah Owyang has spent a whole lot of time in the last 4+ months looking at Community Software platforms from companies like Telligent Systems, Jive Software, Pluck, and Mzinga. The full report is available to Forrester clients or you can pay for it separately.

You can get a lot more detail on Jeremiah’s blog post. He’s going to be one busy boy helping companies make these choices, now that the Wave is out.

Growing the power of small networks

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“Many people with small networks have just as much influence as a few people with large networks,” says David Armano, VP at marketing firm Critical Mass (5,582 Twitter followers). Excellent blog you’ve got there David.

Funny, I said pretty much the same thing about the value of small networks in discussions about what makes an online community work best last week. Along the lines of instead of trying to make one big community to use microblogging within a site to allow many mini-communities to flourish. Then allow cross-over. After all you’ve got (as with all community development) to start off from where people are ‘at’.