Communities and Tech: Build Which and What Will Come?

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

Search for, adopt and embrace existing groups

Unknown at commons.wikimedia

Converse with your users, digest, assimilate good ideas

brunogirin at flickr

Recognise and highlight your hubs and connectors

Calvinius at commons.wikimedia

Galway Tech Map

Startup Galway

Technology Voice

@tom_murphy