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Interview: Austin Hill and Akoha.org

April 3, 2008 – 12:48 pm

I was fortunate to be able to sit down in December with the amazing Austin Hill, Canadian VC and multi-time entrepreneur, to talk to him about the oldest form of economics: The Gift Economy and how Akoha.org (coming soon) fits into this. The video (embedded below) is well worth your time. Austin is a totally [...]

By miss rogue | Also posted in How to be a Social Capitalist, community, social capital, spread love | Tagged akoha, austin hill, gift economy, social capital, whuffie | Comments (5)

Rule #1 for Spreading Love: Don’t Diss the Competition

September 19, 2007 – 8:44 pm

Many companies have spent alot of advertising dollars to tell us what’s wrong with the competition. I spent the last US election, wondering what each candidate really had to offer since all I heard from them was what their rival did (or was going to do) wrong. I constantly hear from startups who talk about [...]

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Spread Love

September 18, 2007 – 8:42 pm

In my recent presentation at e.day, my “5 sure-fire steps to transforming yourself from a spammer into a connector” (said with booming voice) were:

Turn that bullhorn around: stop talking and start listening
Be part of the community you serve: get out of the boardroom and into the community
Design for maximum happiness: design products that delight people
Embrace [...]

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How to Make a Gabillion Dollars with Community Marketing…or something to that effect

September 13, 2007 – 10:26 pm

From my presentation at e.day 2007…presentation and transcript below. The Video.
Slide 1. So, I’m here today to talk to you about a subject that is near and dear to my heart: “How to Make a Gabillion Dollars with Community Marketing…or something to that effect” And, truly, it’s pretty simple…there really are…
Slide 2. …only 3 ways [...]

By miss rogue | Also posted in community, economics, embrace the chaos, everyday magic, higher purpose, insight, research, social capital | Comments (9)

We Need Bridges

August 9, 2007 – 2:01 pm

a.k.a. Event Planning While Negotiating the Leaping Between the Ivory Towers of Social Networks

['cause even those that sorta exist kind of look like this...]
So, I’m in the midst of organizing and trying to promote BarCampBlock, using many of the tools at my disposal:

PB Wiki - ’cause we organize BarCamp on a wiki…that’s just what we [...]

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The Gift

July 15, 2007 – 11:26 pm

Describing to others how Citizen Agency has become successful has been difficult. Mostly it’s because we couldn’t really pinpoint it. We don’t do anything that conventional wisdom would say could lead to success. We didn’t have a business plan. We refuse to use any traditional ways of marketing/advertising. Our website pretty much sucks. We don’t [...]

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