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WWCMD? What Would the Community Manager Do?

Ding ding! That’s the sounding bell of conference season! It’s here again, folks. And I’m doing my very first solo presentation at Web 2.0 Summit, SF.

WWCMD? What Would the Community Manager Do?
What makes an effective Community Manager? We will work together to create a list of best practices and then discuss what we might be able to learn from them. How can we apply the Community Manager’s approach to all aspects of running a business?

Register here.

And if you’ve got any Community Manger best practices you’d like to share or things you might like to learn, let me know in the comments!

The Value of Private Property

A gift from my friend Anita:

Why do we have private property? . . . We use it to measure value, whether emotional, economic, or social. The more private property I have, the richer I am. Privately held items of all kind are generally valued more than publicly held ones . . . What would happen if we engineered a slightly different version of peivate property? We could pick one aspect of the concept and just tweak it a little, perhaps removing the connection between value and exclusivity. The more exclusive an item, the less we would value it. Thus, I could still have my private toothbrush, but it wouldn’t be worth very much. Other items, like a car or a building, would grow in value the more they could be shared with other people. - Annalee Newitz

MissRFTC elfed us

Starring:
Mickipedia
MissRFTC
Escapist
Armst
thedaniel

I hate you

Dear blog,

I hate you. I cannot wait to replace you. If I am successful in stealing my sister’s neighbor’s wifi, I will cast you out over the holiday. What else is there to do in Delaware? My plans and requirements:

no more spam
no more updates
no more plugins
Bio and company information
Blog
Store (spreadshirt)
Lifestream
Easy posting (like tumblr)
lots of feed options
commenting
bookmarking/sharing

I think I’m going to play with Squarespace on Sarah Lane’s suggestion. Thanks, Sarah! Anyone else have any suggestions?

odd time signatures: Denver Plane Crash, Twittered

Switchboard, from NRDC :: Pete Altman's Blog :: Caught on Tape: The Big Lies of Big Coal

Epic Fu - How to make a kickass web show!

Learn from the best, people. Here.

the fool and the dog (aka the twitter film)

the twitter film (racing north, chased by tweets, chasing tweets) from svanes on Vimeo.

the film is constructed around a time-lapse journey by car from los angeles to san francisco, while twitter postings from the same day travel across the bottom of the screen. in this sense, the tweets function like a news ticker, transmitting reports from all over the globe.

concurrently, time, as experienced in the film, moves forward on three levels: the actual travel that is recorded on film that can be measured in distance and time, while the twitter postings provide an additional register of the day’s progression.

finally, the movement and rhythm of the tweets mimics the ebb and flow of car traffic during the day. some tweets move into the passing lane to overhaul slower tweets, while other tweets rush at each other from opposing directions.

this is a non-commercial project that was created solely out of my own curiosity and for the amusement of my friends and contacts in the “twitterverse.”

- christian svanes kolding

A few of my tweets are in there. Can you spot them?

Season’s Beatings

Bring the year to a close with the Derby Dolls! Roller derby all stars from all over the country are skating into town next week to duke it out with LA’s all star team, the LA Ri-ettes. And as a special treat, Gene Simmons will be performing the National Anthem with his daughter. Yes, really.

Dec 13
Buy tickets now

Oh Bla Di Oh Bla Da

link

Just realized I never posted this here. We made this video a couple weeks ago. Featured in the video: Yuri, Evan (Yuri’s son) and Verdell. Good times!

Garrett Lisi on his theory of everything | Video on TED.com

The Viridian Design Movement

It’s all a matter of scale

Another winner from my hero, Greta Christina:

Being an atheist doesn’t mean that life isn’t important. It means that we get to create our own sense of importance. The human scale is where we live. It’s what we have. And if we decide that that’s the most important scale for us, there’s nobody out there to tell us otherwise.

I couldn’t have said it better myself.

Prop 8 The Musical

Gay marriage will save the economy.