Archive for March, 2007

Disposable Camera Model for Community Growth

At the end of the second day of the Community 2.0 conference, there was an ad hoc panel of volunteers who shared thoughts, concerns, ideas, etc. with the audience. One of the volunteers asked (and I’m big time paraphrasing here):
“How can you get started easily with social software? I’ve looked around and it all starts [...]

Sony: How to Kill a Brand

Spike points us to a jaw-droppingly cool YouTube video, created by hobbyists, yet creates a message as powerful as anything a big ad agency could develop. For a client who competed with Sony, of course.
As you may remember, I’m a long, long time Sony loyalist who has also had enough. You may remember my Sony [...]

Projects: LEGO MMOG Community Support

Back in December, Big in Japan began a project with LEGO on their recently announced Massively Multiplayer Online Game (MMOG). The project was only revealed to the world a week ago, but has been in discussion, development, and planning for a long time.
LEGO has partnered with NetDevil to create the game, and Big in [...]

Crazy Conference Travel - Community 2.0

Onto more thoughts about the recent travel jag. This time, Community 2.0 is the focus. This post is a brain dump more than any single topic.
Face to face is funFor the first time ever, Chris and Lee (my Clue Unit partners) and I were all in the same physical place. We've known each other [...]

Crazy Conference Travel - SXSW thoughts

After a whirlwind trip to far too many events in far too short a time, I'm home safe and sound. I'm going to be posting multiple entries about my various thoughts and ruminations about the events. Here's my first few thoughts about SXSW:
2006 vs. 2007Someone told me at Community 2.0 that they didn't go to [...]

links for 2007-03-14

Outside Innovation: COMMUNITY 2.0-Community-Based Innovation
Rock star Patty Seybold live blogs the panel session I was on at Community 2.0.
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My first Kiva loan funds!

After seeing a presentation about Kiva.org at Community Next, I was excited to help out. What’s Kiva, you ask?
Kiva lets you connect with and loan money to unique small businesses in the developing world. By choosing a business on Kiva.org, you can "sponsor a business" and help the world’s working poor make great strides towards [...]

SXSW Panel - Great fun!

After much brainstorming and discussion with Lee (who is doing a similar panel at Community 2.0 in a couple days), my SXSW panel was this morning. It went wonderfully! Great fun, great panel responses, and great audience questions. I’ll fill you in more next week about the panel flow - I think it works really [...]

Favorite conference panels?

Coming up soon it’s panel time!
Next weekend I’ll be moderating a panel at SXSW: Community Ecology: Finding Balance When Working with Fan Groups
Then it’s off to Vegas for Community 2.0 where I’m a panel member:Community-Based Innovation
All this panel discussion has kicked off some thinking about the best panels I’ve seen over the years.
What [...]