communities and tech: build which and what will come?
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Communities & Tech Build which and what will come?
@JohnBreslin
@NUIGalway @Boards @TechnologyVoice @StartupGalway
Guillom at commons.wikimedia
Black Head My grandfather was the first lighthouse keeper here, having helped build it from 1935 to 1936 with the Galway Harbour and Irish Lights Commissioners
(This Clare lighthouse was requested by the community of transatlantic liner captains and freighter masters using Galway Bay)
Allgau at en.wikipedia
Glenties
My other grandfather was a Donegal postman who delivered letters daily to the local community all over the glens by bicycle
Marksie531 at en.wikipedia
NUI Galway
• As a lecturer, I’m also dealing in “signals and communications” of a sort
• Have taught over 2,500 students at the University during the past 15 years
• Doing social media research at Insight toms at flickr
Boards
• boards.ie started life as a gaming community forum I set up in 1998
• Now reaches 2.5M users each month • 125M users / 2.5B pages since 2005
Build the tech and the community will come?
It’s like you’re building a lonely house
Mayqel at commons.wikimedia
Build the community and the tech will come!
Your users should feel they are part of something they’ve helped to build
HM Marsh at British Library's Picturing Canada