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Please Tell Us
Please Tell Us
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Attention Implosion
You either already realize this, or you’re still running fast and hard toward the cliff. Either way, I’d love your perspective. That cliff is the attention implosion. You likely consider yourself a social creature. You probably like human interaction either on a small scale or a large scale.
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[guest post] "Mary Judah ride a skateboard"
When is Mary Judah going to be on a skateboard? But, first she is on a training wheel bike. But, when is she going to ride a skateboard? No, training wheel bikes anymore. When is she going to be on a skateboard? So, I love Mary Judah very very very
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I would love to use one of these to help me switch over into a...
I would love to use one of these to help me switch over into a polyphasic sleep schedule.
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"Selling sweet potato pie instead of scones … shows customers that you’re trying to..."
“Selling sweet potato pie instead of scones … shows customers that you’re trying to figure out how to serve them in new ways.” - Magic Johnson’s captivating customer service
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spending SEO money on your community
Tony Welch: “How many of you do SEO or SEM? SEO and SEM will be dead as you know it within 6 months. Google is going to take into account now much more about what’s happening. Now, when people [type] in your name, people will see social conversations
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Community Health Index
Intriguing list of health factors for communities, created by Lithium: * Responsiveness - A measure of time to respond between successive message posts within a thread taking into account expected response time * Interaction - The number of unique participants weighted by the amount of conversation between them within a thread * Liveliness - A function
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Community Health
In a session this morning, exploring metrics of health in an online commuinty. Which made me immediately currious about the characteristics of a healthy ecosystem: * Vigour - the activity or rate of processes, e.g. slow/steady primary production) * Organisation - healthy ecosystems have a complex structure, e.g. high biodiversity, complex
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This email is bloggable
you may say it, but I wish you’d have asked first ;P On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 5:16 PM, thomas knoll wrote:  >  > And, may I just say, this juxtaposition  makes me laugh:  > *if you want to achieve greatness stop asking for permission*  > this
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"We learned quickly by paying attention to the users."
“We learned quickly by paying attention to the users.” - Paul Graham, Y Combinator
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Reciprocity is broken
Many social networks have built in tools and workflows which have broken a healthy sense of reciprocity, forcing it where it doesn’t make sense, and not providing enough insight to decide when it does. I am really noisey on my uservoicetk twitter account. Almost everything I say there is
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Thanks to an invite from Dan Martell [twitter], I had a chance...
Thanks to an invite from Dan Martell [twitter], I had a chance to participate in the first Kiva Developer Garage where over 25 developers, marketers, and community strategists hacked around on the new Kiva API. There are some very cool projects going public very soon: a share this component, a