Day: July 7, 2009

Video: Shelly on Leveraging Community/Free Frayed Wire Ticket

I know, it is not Monday. I had scheduled this post for next Monday, but realized I wanted to give away my Frayed Wire ticket and that is THIS SATURDAY. So here we go.

Via Ignite Seattle comes a great 5 minute rap by Shelly Farnham on Community Genius: Leveraging Community to Increase your Creative Powers. Shelly is not talking about online community specifically, but community generally. And bounded community where people know each other, not this pseudo community label co opted by marketers.  (Sorry, harsh but that’s reality!) My favorite part is her love analogies. Take a peek – I don’t want to steal her thunder!

This brings to mind the free ticket thing because Shelly is one of the organizers of Frayed Wire on July 11th – I’ll be on the road. I have a paid ticket if someone in Seattle would like to use it! First person to eave a comment ASAP get’s it. I’ll need your name and email (which is part of the comment form) and I’ll transfer my ticket to you!

Best Social Network Site Advice

Creative Commons picture on Flickr by Max-B Josie Fraser offers spot on advice to anyone using a social network. SocialTech: Facebook, MI6 & basic digital literacy

Currently, Facebook is rejigging it’s operation model, simultaneously moving towards a more open platform and trying to make user permissions more understandable, including jettisoning it’s regional networks in favor of sharing information between groups. All this is good news, and I look forward to tracking Facebook’s progress. In the meantime, the best advice I can offer anyone is if you are using any service and aren’t clear about who can see your content or how the permissions work, act as if the service is completely public. Don’t post anything you would mind your mum, boss, colleague or local Daily Mail journo seeing.

Emphasis is Josie’s, but I’m in 100% agreement. My rule has been “don’t post what you don’t want your mom or boss or the (fill in your major media outlet here) to see.” Social networking sites are not built to protect or serve you and your context. It is up to each of us to know that and participate accordingly. In some cases, this may suggest we should NOT participate.