DISQUS

Wow, what a candy shop of links to follow, expand my universe and learn from. And thanks for including me. You made a very early start of a day on the road start with a big smile.

Nancy Whites last blog post..CoP Series #10: Stewarding Technology for Community

Global Voices is a good support org for NPO bloggers in countries that don't get heard as often as they should.

I have thought about making a quilt with old T-Shirts, but I'm not a sewer.

Happy Birthday! Welcome to 50. You look MAHVELOUS! I've been loving my 50th year so far. Also, I just wanted to say the photos you have been posting are REALLY beautiful!

As evidenced by my blogging slow down, I have started to realign some of my time, and some of that realignment is to reduce my web time. From a learning and practice perspective, that means being more conscious of both the bridges and the gaps between the two.

Now, I'm interested in the dynamic between planned, conscious and making a difference. Sometimes they are aligned. Sometimes it is just KISMET! I seek both.

Heh, I guess I'm 15 days into being an 'elderblogger'

Jump on in in 4 months. The water is fine!

Since I can't read the report, my response may be out of context. But I don't think what the chart references is a community by my definition, which is a bounded set of people. Communities don't scale out and out.

Most commercial "communities" (which I assume Jeremiah is talking about) are actually networks and the people in them change over time. There may very likely be communities that form and persist over time as well, but their growth is never continually up. Then tend to find a stasis point which doesn't change much.

The commercial networks right now may play out like this chart, but I think there is something specific and important that is not reflected in this chart and that is the challenge of multimembership and the proliferation of network alternatives.

Right now, for example, social network sites are hot and have a huge growth. But we are starting to see the fatigue (too many widgets, to many alerts and messages with no granularity to their usefulness or aggregation in ways that makes sense to the individual, my friend just invited me to another network, my "friend" who I don't really know started spamming me.)

No amount of ongoing management and continual improvements is going to be able to control the impact and draw/drain of the larger market of networks. It can fight against it, but the fact is people are fickle and will move on.

The differentiation will be those sub communities that form and persist. One strategy to explore is how to create the welcoming space for those communities, and expect the number of communities to grow, rather than the size of any one community.

Then you have not one single upward curve, but many that weave into a successful vortex that persists even though MANY people will come and go.

An example of this is the Share Your Story community at http://www.shareyourstory.org

I get a bit concerned about the hyping of community as well. This is more an intuitive than logical data-driven response, but the image above is more hype than reality as it stands on its own. I'd love to see it reframed from a network perspective which I think is both more scaleable and sustainable.

Great round up... fun to see. I should go back and see who I linked to - women in particular - last year.

Check out http://www.northernvoice.ca - I'm always pleased at the number and really INTERESTING women who show up there. I'll be there again this year. How long of a drive is that?

I love my Chumby - chocochumby, and you remined me I've woefully ignored her these past 10 days of meetings. My updates are downloading

From my participation in http://www.blogher.org my experience of the blogosphere is that there are MANY very brilliant women blogging. The thing to notice is how they are or are not hyperlinked elsewhere, and thus are easier to find via search, blogrolls, etc.

Women came later to the blogosphere, so many of us did not have early mover advantage. But Kathy Sierra is a great example of a late arrival (blogging just over a year I think) who shot to the top 100 quickly. Partly because she had great relationships with people in the blogosphere. I found my friends made my blog visible far faster than if I did not have those friends. So the network effect is also in play. If you are part of a network of colleagues and friends who are established bloggers, your blog cred will have the chance of rising faster. IF people like what you write! ;-)

Circling back 'round to my BlogHer reference, I do think there is value in women only efforts, as long as they are not the only thing we are doing to stimulate participation.

Uh oh, I'm preaching. Time to get back to work!

Heh, I learn by making bloggy mistakes too. I actually did a 5 minute presentation on all the mistakes I made when I started blogging and it was funny how many people in the room were nodding in recognition, so I think it is a common path.

Of the women edubloggers I read and love, you should check out

Barbara Ganley http://mt.middlebury.edu/middblogs/ganley/bgblo..., Hey Jude http://heyjude.wordpress.com/, Artichoke (http://www.artichoke.typepad.com/ New Zealand), oh, and so many more. There are some great women edubloggers out there. So many blogs, so little time!

Hi Bee!

Ah, I wish I could be at your Bar Camp! (I went to school for a year at Colegio Rio Branco - Saudades do Sao Paulo)

See you Saturday here in Seattle!

Oh, it is so great to see the traces in your blog of the culture of love!!

Ah, sorry I'm missing you while you are in my hometown - and I'm overseas. I hope you have a good time in our city!

Hey, great to get your comment on my blog then wander here and find yours. Excellent!

Good thread, here and over on Daily Dose of Denise. Thanks to all. Lots of thought provoking comments (and glad that I was not the only typo-ista!)

How about a shift from the culture of celebrity to the culture of appreciate of each of our talents and strengths?

I think this is part of what I have started to blather about moving from the culture of fear to the culture of love. Maybe we need to shift the culture of celebrity a bit as well too. Wahddayathink?

Lovely, lovely post and recap. Thanks again for rescuing me with the cable. I had a big giggle when i saw the photo. Insane, but accurate. What can I say? It was great meeting you!

Thanks again!

Thanks for the notes, Kevin. Why don't we do a local F2F on the online/offline intersection here in Seattle? Beer and online community conversation?

Kevin, I hope you can share your notes as the wiki you referred to is a private one. So in this case community= private! :-)

Thank you for the link to Molly's post, your thoughts, and not least, your kind words. Kind words matter in this world. I appreciate yours.

I posted a note to Molly, who I've met only in the fleetest of passing. I would not have been able to do that without your link.

I'm not sure I would agree that it is not about gender, because gender is inextricably linked up with who we are and the society we're in. I'm not wise enough to know when one bit leaves off and another starts up, but sense of worth still feels pretty gender linked in my experience (and age - nearly 49).

I do agree that we all have our roadblocks and gifts. I am also sensing that we each replay at a personal level a play that has been performed countless times through history, each with a little bit of variation. So there is both our unique imprint AND a shared experience.

Jeeze, I'm blathering. TOo late on a Saturday night. I'll just quite now - smile - and end with a thanks!

I think you just pointed out one of the poignent things about this online/offline life. Just when we are in the flow of one, there is that jarring jump, that switch. Maybe making those switches gracefully is one of the competencies?

I never logged on to the IRC channel at NVoice. That is one way to ease the transistions - the social "small talk" (though it is not small in its impact) can mediate the gap.

Mind the gap, eh? :-)

Just the number of comments indicates the needs for this product. I'd love an invite if they come open again!

Hey, I'll take notes for you. And because I love the purple woven through your blog design, I'll share a secret with you about my presentation.

I'm gonna do it IN MY PAJAMAS

It only seemed fitting.

I've got my room booked too for Blogher! WOO HOO!!!

N

I had this mental image of people leaning up to touch their screens...

This light display is small but amazing. On Curtner, near lincoln, on the right coming from 87/Almaden Exp. is a house with one very tall palm tree and dang, if that tree isn't lit up to the top. Blew me away as we were heading towards my parent's house. Out of the way, but worth a gander.