I blogged yesterday about the panel I am participating to at the eBay Developer’s Conference, on Community and Social Tools – and what they mean to the eBay ecosystem. It sounds like Laura Merling, Kevin Rose, Ross Mayfield and I will have an easier job convincing the crowd that these tools can be of great benefit. AuctionBytes just announced that eBay blogs and community wikis were being launched at eBay Live.
eBay will be introducing eBay Blogs, another way to give sellers an opportunity to market themselves, as well as an eBay Community Wiki. eBay is holding sessions on the new tools at the upcoming eBay Live conference in Las Vegas June 13 – 15.
The session called “It’s not About Me, it’s eBay Blogs!” shows conference attendees how they can use eBay Blogs to write about the things they sell and build their networks. Another session, called “Wiki 101 – An Overview of the eBay Community Wiki,” defines Wikis in general, looks at Wiki implementation on other sites, and discusses Wiki features eBay provides to the Community. eBay has already created a discussion board devoted to eBay Blogs, though it’s not yet available on its main list of discussion boards.
A community blog called the Chatter has also been launched last month, hosted on TypePad – and more interestingly, with a TypePad URL: http://ebaychatter.typepad.com/the_chatter. How about listing blogs hosted on edgeio (Disclaimer: one of my investments) ?
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