I’m constantly surprised at the number of different ways social networks treat the ‘friending’ process. Chris does an awesome job of recording these patterns via screenshot, but I want to outline a couple of the treatments of the processes of friending and how a couple of my favourite social networks handle it. Particularly:
“Levels” of friends
Adding [...]
Geek Marketing, I’m actually truly glad that Steve Rubel named it this. It’s simple and explanatory of how a new ethic is emerging in marketing. This format is more realistic and relationship driven. Realistic because it doesn’t try to fool itself into thinking that any measurement formerly known as ROI means anything. Click-throughs and traffic [...]
Last night, while having a wonderful conversation with Ruth Kalinka, design geek girl extraordinaire, I realized something significant: We are living in significantly good times.
Ruth, just like myself, just like many of my other friends, have held the same principles for years:
Cooperation and collaboration
Transparency and openness
Empathy, kindness and care towards others
Sustainability
Fairness
Community
etc.
These are pretty much all [...]
This is a very very rough draft of the outline for what the Archetypes look like in a community (mostly thrown up here from TextPad notes). It is important to note that all of these community archetypes play highly positive roles in various communities. Any tension caused by the ‘clashing’ of personality types is good [...]
If I were to write a piece on the current state of API’s, this is what I would call that post.
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 [...]
So, after a brilliant week away from it all, laying on a beach on an island made of lava, surrounded by the Pacific Ocean, we hopped another plane to the windy city to attend BlogHer Conference ‘07 - A World Of Difference.
The only bummer about that was that, because of a 6 hour time difference, [...]
“As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches one.” Godwin’s Law
The image above illustrates, to me, the level of frenzy community members get into as they become more and more emotionally involved in a community. I’m not entirely sure what the member is protesting here as there [...]
Indeed, it’s perilous to chase growth across borders. Because a global market’s dimensions are wider and less defined than a nation’s or a region’s, firms face a higher risk of frittering away the advantages they have secured on smaller playing fields. If a company wants to grow and still maintain superior returns, the appropriate strategy [...]
Every now and then, I get the kind of questions that make the hair on the back of my neck stand up. These questions are worse for women than any kind of overt sexism. Worse than saying, “girls aren’t good at math”. Worse than saying, “I don’t care about your coding skillz, yer hot.” The [...]
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