Social Media Evolution

If you’re really into grokking the evolution of social media sites, how communities develop and grow, and how tools evolve to effectively enable engagment, you should check out a very useful conversation happening over at DailyKos, where users are engaging in big dialog over the features and functionality that will define DK4.0. This is in-the-trenches product development with a de facto customer advisory board, and it’s incredibly enlightening to browse through some of the former "great ideas" the community is panning now, and the new suggestions they have for building a better community site.