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Re: Where Do Community Managers Come From?

Morgan Sully — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 03:06:22 -0000

I've often thought that community managers are more cultivators than anything. They bring out the inherent good - whether that is helpful folks on a bulletin board, eloquent writers, ardent organizers, or just 'policers' - they may at times be almost 'invisible' - simply ensuring that the whole ecology of the community is functioning and growing well.

I think online community management is a bit like growing a garden.

Re: Be the Media Project: The Social Media Empowerment Guide for Nonprofits

Morgan Sully — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 14:44:49 -0000

Hey Beth,
I did see that. With social media projects, copyright has certainly been a concern - particularly with people I have to answer to or people looking out to protect whatever org/community project I'm collaborating with from legal repercussions.

What ever our name ends up being, it's certainly a project model I'll keep in mind for other endeavors. Go collaboration!

Re: Be the Media Project: The Social Media Empowerment Guide for Nonprofits

Morgan Sully — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 18:44:00 -0000

What ever our name ends up being, it's certainly a project model I'll keep in mind for other endeavors. Go collaboration!

Re: We're live.

Morgan Sully — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 06:27:15 -0000

Woo hoo!

I was one of the later beta testers, but have been *really* liking your site and inviting my friends. We've been looking for something like this for a while and I think your SoundCloud is AWESOME. Yippee!!!!

Re: Community As Your Operating System

Morgan Sully — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 20:02:58 -0000

Funny you say that. I actually got the meme from Terrence McKenna's video 'Culture
is Your Operating System: http://www.memeshift.com/20.... I think the idea of bringing it back to a 'community' as opposed to the generic 'culture' is that it humanizes it a bit and brings it 'closer' to a network of friends, allies, confidants, and colleagues - it's not as nebulous (or spacey as McKenna's vision;).

Re: Community As Your Operating System

Morgan Sully — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 00:35:34 -0000

Other people have been thinking about this too apparently, but inversely. Currently, I'm reading through a PDF called 'The Social Life of Routers: Applying Knowledge of Human Networks to the Design of Computer Networks': http://orgnet.com/SocialLif...

Re: Template for Building a Small Powerful Network

Morgan Sully — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 18:56:32 -0000

Thank you for writing this Chris!
This post provides some nice actionable steps I've had around the idea of building your personal network. I've already shared this post with a few folks and am working on building up my network too!

I've sometimes thought that one's network is like a whole operating system for accomplishing the things you want to do in life - except it's wonderfully powered by people, kind of like a hive mind, but without the creepy overtones.

"Community As Your Operating System" is a post I wrote about it:
http://www.memeshift.com/20...

Re: How to: Build a Social Media Cheat Sheet for Any Topic

Morgan Sully — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 18:18:05 -0000

Marshall,

Thank you thank you for this awesome tutorial! I'd built something like this late last year using feeds for web search. The result was a Netvibes 'listening post' for my former employer: http://www.netvibes.com/namac-listening-post

For those others coming to this post, I was also inspired by Marshall's post: http://marshallk.com/how-to-build-an-rss-and-blog-news-site-for-your-project

Thanks again for the help and keep the mashups coming!

Re: CTCNet Conference Report 2008: What Are the Opportunities and Challenges Facing the Field of Community Technology?

Morgan Sully — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 17:56:16 -0000

Hey Davis,
I just fixed the link.

Here's the direct link:
http://www.memeshift.com/wp...

Thanks for the catch!

Re: CTCNet Conference Report 2008: What Are the Opportunities and Challenges Facing the Field of Community Technology?

Morgan Sully — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 20:56:16 -0000

Hey Davis,
I just fixed the link.

Here&#39s the direct link:
http://www.memeshift.com/wp-content/uploads/200...

Thanks for the catch!

Re: CTCNet Conference Report 2008: What Are the Opportunities and Challenges Facing the Field of Community Technology?

Morgan Sully — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 14:25:28 -0000

If you are on Facebook, here is a link to the CTCNet Facebook group:

http://www.facebook.com/gro...

Re: CTCNet Conference Report 2008: What Are the Opportunities and Challenges Facing the Field of Community Technology?

Morgan Sully — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 17:25:28 -0000

If you are on Facebook, here is a link to the CTCNet Facebook group:

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=55635782836

Re: CTCNet Conference Report 2008: What Are the Opportunities and Challenges Facing the Field of Community Technology?

Morgan Sully — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 18:04:02 -0000

And a CTCNet listserv is here: http://groups.google.com/gr...

Re: CTCNet Conference Report 2008: What Are the Opportunities and Challenges Facing the Field of Community Technology?

Morgan Sully — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 21:04:02 -0000

And a CTCNet listserv is here: http://groups.google.com/group/ctcnet-listserv

Re: What Are the Roles of CTCs in Building a National Community Service Infrastructure?

Morgan Sully — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 22:57:00 -0000

For those interested, you can also join the CTCNet listserv I created on Google Groups here:

CTCNet-listserv

Visit this group

Re: Lijit integrates Disqus into their search engine

Morgan Sully — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 19:19:39 -0000

@Medical The value prop with Lijit is that when you sign up for it, you can enter in your various social networks, any RSS feed AND OPML files (collections of RSS feeds usually exported from a reader) that then becomes a personal federated search, hosted on your own blog. A user can essentially search your whole social network AND web presence from one interface, on your blog. I'm definitely a fan and use it on my blog.

More info about federated search can be found here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federated_search

Re: Lijit integrates Disqus into their search engine

Morgan Sully — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 20:19:39 -0000

@Medical The value prop with Lijit is that when you sign up for it, you can enter in your various social networks, any RSS feed AND OPML files (collections of RSS feeds usually exported from a reader) that then becomes a personal federated search, hosted on your own blog. A user can essentially search your whole social network AND web presence from one interface - your blog. I'm definitely a fan and use Lijit on my blog.

More info about federated search can be found here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wik...

Re: Lijit integrates Disqus into their search engine

Morgan Sully — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 16:04:28 -0000

awesome! Thanks for listening Tara!

I've also been a fan of PostRank (for making sense of your RSS feeds) and wanted to integrate the two on my blog. I made a post about it in the Get Satisfaction Account for PostRank:

http://getsatisfaction.com/aiderss/topics/can_p...

Now testing... Thanks again - already had positive touchpoints with Lijit so far...:)

Re: Lijit integrates Disqus into their search engine

Morgan Sully — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 17:04:28 -0000

awesome! Thanks for listening Tara!

I've also been a fan of PostRank (for making sense of your RSS feeds) and wanted to integrate the two on my blog. I made a post about it in the Get Satisfaction Account for PostRank:

http://getsatisfaction.com/...

Now testing... Thanks again - already had positive touchpoints with Lijit so far...:)

Re: CTCNet Conference Report 2008: What Are the Opportunities and Challenges Facing the Field of Community Technology?

Morgan Sully — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 17:13:49 -0000

Hey D,
we have since migrated the listserv (see above comments). Not sure what's up with CTCNet...

Re: CTCNet Conference Report 2008: What Are the Opportunities and Challenges Facing the Field of Community Technology?

Morgan Sully — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 20:13:49 -0000

Hey D,
we have since migrated the listserv (see above comments). Not sure what&#39s up with CTCNet...

Re: CTCNet Conference Report 2008: What Are the Opportunities and Challenges Facing the Field of Community Technology?

Morgan Sully — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 20:39:12 -0000

Belinda Rawlins also posted David Keyes conference presentation from his work in Seattle here: http://belindarawlins.com/d... There's a great "10 Simple Action Steps for CTC Staff and Users" in it.

Re: CTCNet Conference Report 2008: What Are the Opportunities and Challenges Facing the Field of Community Technology?

Morgan Sully — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 23:39:12 -0000

Belinda Rawlins also posted David Keyes conference presentation from his work in Seattle here: http://belindarawlins.com/docs/david%20keyes%20... There&#39s a great "10 Simple Action Steps for CTC Staff and Users" in it.

Re: 5 Tips To Boost Your Performance in Ableton Live

Morgan Sully — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 03:38:52 -0000

Phillip that's rad man. I have never been quite able to figure out how to do that and actually stopped using Reason (I think it was at 2.0). I guess I've been kind of a purist for Ableton;p But yeah, templates have saved me loads of time having to reprogram everything from scratch. I change it up every couple of months, just so I don't get stale using the same old tricks. Meeting up with other electronic musicians/djs helps keep things fresh too.

thank you so much for the comment! You got a blog you write at or follow?

Re: 5 Steps to Social Media Engagement for Electronic Musicians

Morgan Sully — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 19:33:57 -0000

oh yeah. I read that post and thought it brought up some much needed criticism of our 'thanks for the add' online social networking. I've gotten random follows and adds from people where it's obvious that they are trying to promote themselves first, before they've even developed a strong base of content/value that isn't just 'me me me'.

There was a great quote from Bob Moog in Hans Fjellestad's documentary where Moog talks about how electronic musicians shouldn't forget the value of face-to-face with other musicians when communing/creating - it's an essential part of music/making for Moog. I thought this was one of the gems in the movie for me, much more eloquent than my paraphrasing here;)

I dug this link on CDM: http://createdigitalmusic.c...

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