DISQUS

My family has a lot of little traditions we love.
Mom's homemade eggnog in Dad's mustache.
Making bread on Christmas eve, the smell filling the house.
Lasagna on Christmas day.
And a box for bowling shoes from the 70s that has held our tree's angel topper for years and years - and is given to someone each year.

My family has a lot of little traditions we love.
Mom's homemade eggnog in Dad's mustache.

Making bread on Christmas eve, the smell filling the house.

Lasagna on Christmas day.

And a box for bowling shoes from the 70s that has held our tree's angel topper for years and years - and is given to someone each year.

I go for the homemade gift for at least a portion of the gifts I buy. I try to come up with ways to use what I have in abundance - and the past few years that's herbs - but also I try craft projects from recycled things we all have too much of (follow @Craft for ideas)

I go for the homemade gift for at least a portion of the gifts I buy. I try to come up with ways to use what I have in abundance - and the past few years that's herbs - but also I try craft projects from recycled things we all have too much of (follow @Craft for ideas)

I've been doing some work in the space. As a researcher, I understand the benefits of working with a group over a long period, rather than just point in time interactions. As a marketer, I understand the potential for confusion and backlash should people feel burned.

I think there are ways to work with research panels and forums so that you can build and test community elements you may want to use in the full-blown space - identity, hierarchy, etc. - in addition to the general research questions you may have to put forward. There are members who may cross borders and interact with you in several places - research and community focused. So long as you can ID, if necessary for research purposes, who is interacting where, this can be managed to the benefit of both sides. And so long as those in the research forum understand its true focus (transparency!).

I don't think the short-term mis-classified "community" is only happening in the research realm. I think there are marketers with similar misunderstandings/ blatant misguided behavior - and I worry that THOSE will be areas where resistance will grow rapidly. There are so many times where people tell me of "communities" where members can't even interact.....

I was forced to miss Twitter after that upgrade where tweets weren't showing up. Trapped in an annoying long meeting, I felt (as a newbie) that perhaps I was in the dark about a "movement" or something. I felt a bit lost and like I was shouting into space.

Twitter doesn't have to be a time suck. I usually check updates to break up the day, it's a tie to the "real world" when traveling or in long training sessions.

For me, it'd be easier to pass on email - it takes more time to process.

Facebook makes my head hurt - there's too much going on on a page,and since I just want to see quick updates, scan for new friends/ emails, and leave - it is way too cluttered. It seems to me that people started having fun, developers went nuts creating something for every personality possible, and now it's just drowning in too much stuff.

I'm totally about to post on this - I've read the first story and glanced at the second - I think it's an extremely cool experiment and can't wait to finish exploring them! I love that they're picking up all these new techniques to enhance the stories they're telling - and what it can do for personal storytelling could be very cool.

Cool!

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