Building Online Communities: Interview with Svi Ben-Elya about Elephant.org.il

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Building Online Communities: Interview with Svi Ben-Elya about Elephant.org.il

November 6th, 2007 | Posted in Tech Writer Voices |

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Duration: 27 min.

In this podcast, I talk with Svi Ben-Elya about Elephant.org.il. Elephant is an online community he and others created to empower technical communicators in Israel (originally in the city of Yokneam) with relevant salary information to make them more market savvy when they negotiate jobs.

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January 22nd, 2008 at 9:23 pm

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Experience #5: Elephant.org.il Community Some experiences don’t work out so well. One personI interviewed for a podcastinvited me to become a regular columnist for his community site, Elephant. I thought hmmm, okay, I’ll try it, because you never know what may come of it. However, I didn’t get much traffic, feedback, or other knowledge from participating in this

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