Thanks again @sushaantu. I think you're a great man because many of people don't do this present:) also I heard some people bought their invitation. Best wishes for you.
- Amin
And also he said if you come Iran, he'll banquet you :)
- Amin
One more wave invite sent to @Wins Fern
- sushaantu
@Jojojo I dont know what you mean by ;youknowhere; is it gmail? And One invite sent to doodinghouse@gmail.com too.
- sushaantu
@Amin Thanks for clarifying and thanks کشکول for the nice gesture
- sushaantu
@jojojo Okay I am taking the guess. I have sent the invite to m.krycki At gmail Dot com
- sushaantu
------------------------------Thread Closed, Invites finished. Thanks everyone------------------------------ Follow me on twitter if you are a software geek. I tweet about softwares, apps and other geeky stuff.
- sushaantu
"The first thing I thought when I read this was wow- have I ever done that? (re: the terse email) Great reminder to be consistent across all forms of communication and that it's not about keeping up a facade, it's about dropping the facade altogether."
- Erin McMahon
"Jason, These strike me as three great keys to nonprofit ~fundraising~ success. But I think that there is an important distinction to make. Nonprofit success with social media does not always entail fundraising. You didn't say it did, but the title of your post could be a little misleading. Sometimes nonprofit success in social media means recruiting volunteers, or getting action on advocacy efforts, etc. Just thought I'd throw that out there. ;)"
- Erin McMahon
"That's true. I know I didn't have a rating scale in mind when I chose my pic. There are certainly things you can do to encourage a better score if you are aiming for that."
- Erin McMahon
"That's true. I know I didn't have a rating scale in mind when I chose my pic. There are certainly things you can do to encourage a better score if you are aiming for that."
- Erin McMahon
"That's true. I know I didn't have a rating scale in mind when I chose my pic. There are certainly things you can do to encourage a better score if you are aiming for that."
- Erin McMahon
"I think it just means that average twitorfit user is a harsh critic. ;) (If no one is scoring on the high end of the scale then there is something wrong with the scoring or something wrong with the scale.)"
- Erin McMahon
"I think it just means that average twitorfit user is a harsh critic. ;) (If no one is scoring on the high end of the scale then there is something wrong with the scoring or something wrong with the scale.)"
- Erin McMahon
Ok everyone! Its time for me to write up another list sunday! This Sunday will be all about Christmas Music. So what are your favorite Christmas songs?
I'm Jewish but still enjoy many Christmas songs! Some of my favorites are Carol of the Bells, Blue Christmas, and I'll Be Home for Christmas.
- Rochelle
I can't stand Christmas music. There's no nostalgia or anything likable in it for me whatsoever.
- Mitch
I won't say I can't stand it, but I don't have any favorite Christmas songs. Sure I used to sing them as a kid, but none of them ever really stuck for me.
- Mathew™ one of a kind
I LOVE Christmas music. All the oldies. I'm not into new Christmas music. It just holds such little meaning to me. Look forward to seeing your Xmas music list.
- Adriana
Silent Night (I used to play that song in Hand Bell Choir as a kid...amazingly sweet sound)
- Susan Beebe
Jingle Bell Rock ... Frosty ... 12 Days of Christmas ... All I want for Christmas is You ... Last Christmas ... Noelle ... Feliz Navidad ... Rudolph ... the dradle song (I know it's not Christmas but still, I love that song) ... and the list goes on.
- Mona Nomura
I misspelled dreidel. Wow, how embarrassing. Thanks, Rochelle (for the link and not making me feel dumb for my spelling mistake)
- Mona Nomura
David Bowie and Bing Crosby "Little Drummer Boy,", "O Come, O Come Emanual," and "Carol of the Bells" but only with real bells.
- MVB (Curmudgeon of FF)
What Mark V, Abby M and Christopher H said. David Bowie and Bing Crosby FTW
- Thomas Bøhm
Anything from The Snowman soundtrack is my current fave. I love almost ALL Christmas music, though. As much as I hate that stores are bringing out Christmas stuff earlier & earlier each year, I have to admit that while I don't necessarily want to see Christmas trees and/or Chanukah Bushes in September I don't mind hearing the music and I never get tired of it either. Also, I am really good at writing run on sentences. :-|
- Lisa L. Seifert
Yes you can, after all it is one of my top favorite Christmas movies.
- Mathew™ one of a kind
the peanuts music- vince guaraldi soundtrack to the peanuts' christmas
- anna sauce
The Charlie Brown Christmas album, and Johnny Mathis' Merry Christmas.
- Steve Isaacs
Yes. The Johnny Mathis Christmas album is what makes it for me.
- Derrick
Venite Adoremus ("the snow lay on the ground"), Lo How a Rose E'er Blooming, Coventry Carol, Basque Carol, Carol of the Bells, Sleigh Ride (orchestral, of course), just about any of Leroy Anderson's Christmas arrangements for the Boston Pops.
- Ladybug Heather
I have always been befuddled when people say "I don't want your pity" or "I don't want your charity." Pity and charity have always seemed like good things to me. Having heard a friend talk with disgust about an invitation he received to a party as a "pity invite" gave me great pause. Since he was so displeased about having been invited to an event because someone "pities" him I wondered if perhaps my understanding of pity and charity have been wrong all along. I think of pity and charity as being markers of compassion and concern toward others but maybe I've been confused.
- Michelle Jones
I wouldn't want your pity either; if you are going to invite me to your event, I would want to be invited because you wanted me there
- RAPatton
Fascinating. You wouldn't want someone to invite you because they want to make you feel better or they want you to be less lonely? If they're interested in you as a fellow human instead and want to make you feel better that's bad but if they are interested in you as a party guest on a purely social level that's good?
- Michelle Jones
I don't want anyone to make me feel better, you like me and think I would be a good addition to your celebration or your don't. I don't want to go to a party where no one likes me.
- RAPatton
I think, over time, that origin definition of pity has changed. People do not associate it with being compassionate towards someone. For me, it always carries a more negative connotation. More like someone just feels sorry for you and are taking you into consideration because maybe they feel you are lonely or have no friends or other things. Maybe the meaning needs to come back around but I do not think it will. Not when for so long people have associated it with being something bad.
- Anna Lynn M.
To continue with your example. if they didnt want you to their party and didnt like you, they wouldnt invite you. But perhaps you are not in the "must absolutely invite" list but on the "would like to invite" list, and they cant invite all, theres more people on that list than they can fit in. So they have to make choices, and they invite you because they feel you could use it the most. That's pity, but why would you take offense?
- Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)
I know, I don't want anyone feeling pity for me. I think there is some sort of condescension in it.
- Anna Lynn M.
but to go back to the topic, the problem is not the pity - the problem is the self esteem of people to think they are receiving pity.They feel it is somehow a judgement of failure on them to give them pity or help - it makes them losers. Often putting it that way: "so every time you helped soandso because you felt sorry, you were actually hating him?" can help shake things back into perspective.
- Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)
Joelle has it exactly right. If I don't like you I'm not inviting you to the party but guest lists aren't infinite, etc.
- Michelle Jones
Pity relates to pride and therein lies the crux. If pity leads to genuine generosity with real inclusion, great, just don't let it bruise the ego of the proud.
- Michael W. May
I guess the bruised ego part is the part I don't get. If you need help or if someone's actions can help you in some way why does it bruise your ego to accept it?
- Michelle Jones
If I need help I ask for it, but only after I have exhausted other avenues. I don't think it has to do with ego so much as why would I want to be somewhere where I am not really wanted? That doesn't sound like too much fun.
- RAPatton
Michelle, I think the secret is that people will accept pity so long as they don't feel pitied. Your compassion and consideration has to work in concert with the other person's sense of dignity.
- Jason Toney
Yes I think that's right Jason, I'm just trying to wrap my head around why it's not considered dignified to accept help or compassion. Clearly that's a strong cultural thing and I hold the minority attitude and I'm really struggling to understand the dominant opinion. How can I better do good and spread more charity and compassion when, with the best of intentions, it doesn't actually make people feel better to help them?
- Michelle Jones
Commented on blog- synopis: It goes both ways. Sometimes host/esse/s make people feel pitied. A true charitable invitation means seeing the whole thing thru and makig sure all gfuests are equally welcomed. Jason's got it right IMHO
- Erin McMahon
from twhirl
To your question Michelle- Acknowledging you need help means showing your weknesses, showing your flaws. Here's something I can't do... Or even worse, here's omething Iusually can do, but for some reason Ican't get it together right now. It's very scary to show vulnerability when we don't know if we're in safe territory. Heck even when we do know we're safe it can be scary...
- Erin McMahon
from twhirl
"Sure, in terms of age that's true, but I mean more socio-economically. How might we bridge the gap in the future for those people who don't have access to the digital world? I'd like to think that the future of social media will be even more inclusive- allowing more people to the conversation - but it will take a lot of work to get us there. (I hope the differentiation I am trying to make makes sense...)"
- Erin McMahon
"Forgive me if this has already been commented on- I didn't see it, but I did scan rather quickly... How do you see the digital divide playing out? I can't help thinking about the future of social media without wondering if we will have more of the world participating. What happens to all the people on the wrong side of the divide? Or do you think we will get closer to closing this gap in the future?"
- Erin McMahon
rambn: well, everyone is smart until they prove otherwise. That's why we have unfollow. :-) Also, everyone on FriendFeed is a defacto early adopter. I figure that since it took me 1.5 years to understand and use RSS that anyone who joins in the first 1.5-years of a service is a defacto early adopter. That means we have another five months to go.
- Robert Scoble
Thanks for following me by the way, Robert.
- Tyson Key
Hey Robert, It looks like I fit the criteria. Although, Im doubtful about the 'smart' since Im always broke! :)
- Michael G. Galli
Tyson: thanks for bringing me good stuff!
- Robert Scoble
"I listen to bands that don't exist yet"
- Kevin Morris
I was already following you on Twitter and Friendfeed. I'm trying to learn how to use Friendfeed. Twitter is not helping me make strong connections & alliances and I cannot succeed until I can make connections. I'm an early adopter and hope I'm smart in doing so.
- Jannifer @wordsforliving
@Scobleizer Hmm, I think you're already subscribed to me - here's a few suggestions though (ccg, bmevans, netzoo, gebl, hifisamurai, ochua1)
- Enrique Gutierrez
from twhirl
Why did it take you 1.5 years to learn how to use RSS?
- Amani
Jannifer: building strong connections is still difficult here, but is much easier here than on Twitter because you can have conversations around one topic, like we are here.
- Robert Scoble
music + a user generated world that consumes media through non linear networks = a new form of non linear social music
- Dizzy Banjo
I run www.Newte.ch and do marketing research. Just started using PeopleBrowsr and love it!
- Vedø
Thanks Robert, I keep telling myself that, appreciate the support :) I am the king of early adoption though and tech, so I have decided to throw my hat in the game and will have my own tech/gadget/review/ blog-site up for 2009. Its about time I did what I always wanted to do!
- Michael G. Galli
Robert, why are you finding FF easier than Twitter? You're welcome to follow me - I'm an Internet industry person (CEO, Sonic.net, independent bay area ISP)
- Dane Jasper
Did U tried TweetDeck? you could build groups in similar ways as here on FF.
- Francois Lamotte
Amani: cause I'm really not that smart. Also, back when Dave Winer first showed it to me I wasn't feeling enough pain to push me into using it. Eventually the pain got worse and worse until I finally asked Dave about it again and started using it.
- Robert Scoble
In my opinion, RSS is something that has no learning curve (it took me less than 2 minutes to figure out how to use them), although it's a Your Mileage May Vary thing...
- Tyson Key
Friendfeed is better to have longer conversations. more space for one.
- sofiagk
Francois: yes, I like TweetDeck but I do a lot of my FriendFeeding on my iPhone. Dane: FriendFeed is better for a whole lot of reasons. I need to do a video on why. Threading is one reason.
- Robert Scoble
Hi Robert. I'm a web content and seo strategist always on the hunt for cool web apps/design. (also wrote the Digital Needs section of Seagate.com.) Pick me, Pick me!
- Doug Vanisky
Robert, are you the most prolific frienfeeder? If not, then I would be suprised ;-)
- Julien
Hi Rob - I hope I meet the high standard of the other 500 people you've added. Cheers!
- Eric
I work in the social media space but only within the home furnishings vertical. Thanks for the invite!
- Leslie Carothers
follow me! I'm smart and early - it's 6:30 a.m.! Have a great time in Barcelona :)
- Corinna Makris
No South Africans on the list, yet...pick me! (although I may be a bit random for you...haha). And @carlspies @palesa08 @xsyn @singe @robstokes @uberEllis
- Roger Saner
totally agree that FriendFeed makes it much easier to *really* follow more people.
- Kevin Gamble
It would be great to go along and rethink things together
- Vitaly Pimenov
Aloha Robert! Absorb your tweets like a sponge fish. New on FriendFeed, but I'm a quick study. Scour posts for inovation, always looking to push to the next level. Testing new formats to be revealved shortly. Tweets @AlohaArleen
- Arleen Anderson
looking forward to see how many messages this post will get. anyway, greetings from mexico!
- Enrique De La Torre
I would like if you follow me. Thanks!
- Kyle Reddoch
Thanks to all the new people. Remember to put your Twitter feed into FriendFeed, along with your blog, your Flickr stream, your video streams, and more. That way I can get to know you by following you here.
- Robert Scoble
I am following everyone here now except for those who have private feeds.
- Robert Scoble
Anyone else on Profilactic too, out of interest?
- Tyson Key
Legistraight.org, a recently launched public policy wiki. We are also compiling a comprehensive list of Financial Crisis resources. On Twitter (@legistraight), created this FriendFeed acct just for you Robert. http://legistraight.org
- Legistraight.org
Hiya Robert. Count me in if you like! ;)
- Erin McMahon
Arguably smart and not the absolutely last adopter.
- That Software Guy
Ok, I'm waiting for a follow, @dfletcher on Twitter, went to Barcelona recently. Great destination. Enjoy! Is this your first trip to Spain?
- Dave Fletcher
Dave: yeah, it's our first trip to Spain.
- Robert Scoble
Hope you have a great time. Endless number of sights to see around Barcelona. Don't miss Sagrada Familia and Gaudi architecture. Nice beach south at Castelldefells and Sitges is a cool sidetrip.
- Dave Fletcher
it's thanks to you Robert that I started to use FF and I think it's great idea
- Ioana Monica Muntean
Thanks to all the new people I'm now following 4,500 people on FriendFeed. Wild.
- Robert Scoble
Robert, your real time feed must be flying. can you still read it following that many people?
- Mark Schulz
Hello Robert, I'm a 13-year-old designer, developer, and entrepreneur. I'm part of a new company, 9Miles Media. Thank you. ;)
- Melik Yuksel
Hey Robert.. another Bay Area adopter here (@goyato) .. artist, writer, and digital dabbler. Been on FF for a little while, but haven't really started following too many. Thanks for the push.
- Yato Yoshida
i'm spending a lot of time trying to great groups of folks... is it possible to make your groups public?
- Jason Calacanis
@Melik Yuksel - Yet another upcoming Young 'Feeder? (I'm only 5 years older than you, to be honest, and also new to FriendFeed). I look forward to see where you take this crazy train! ;)
- Tyson Key
Jason: I haven't figured out a way for me to share my group with you, but you can click on http://www.friendfeed.com/scoblei... and see everyone I'm subscribed to. I manually added each of the 4,500. So I guess you'll have to do it the hard way too.
- Robert Scoble
Hey Robert, I'm a veteran UX designer and entrepreneur (mostly for the financial industry) currently starting up a company called Thropic (@thropic) that specializes in t-shirt fundraising. Would love to dialog via FF. Cheers- Miguel
- Miguel Rodriguez
I'm not sure if I'm smart, but I'm somewhat of an early adopter. Yep. :)
- Bryan Villarin
I'm still learning FF's advantages, but an early enough adopter to be here already, and smart enough to take you up on your offer. :)
- James Dickey
Been on FF for a short time. One of the best things that happened to me for now!
- Ms. B
@Tyson Key - I like to think that. ;) I'm also new to FriendFeed, quite frankly, I don't know which part of it to start from. :)
- Melik Yuksel
twitter is not conducive to following people its good for now but not the recent past
- Trevor Cook
Wow we're plenty here. Don't know if it's 'clever' to stand in the line but it's late over here in Athens, raining and not a bad idea to...take cover :)
- Vicki Kolovou
Hello Robert, been on here for a while, but I find I still use Twitter more (same username). As Chief Architect for a networking software company, I keep up with new developments, and even create some of them :-)
- John
Wow, the real-time feed is faster than the Gentoo IRC channel on FreeNode, and that is often one Hell of a high-traffic channel (I hated being in it, the first time I used IRC).
- Tyson Key
Great to have met you Robert at Blogworld Expo. Check my 12sec friendfeed post for my flip video talk with you.
- James Guske
He probably got the entire New Testament in that 12 seconds!
- jamesdkirk
hi robert, we're both following each other on twitter. would love to see you following on FF, too! thanks :D
- henry
@Melik Yuksel - Take note, you'll probably find that FriendFeed consumes quite a lot of your time, once you get into the swing of things (I get the XMPP feed and struggle to sift through it). I'm still a moderate Twitterer though (I do about 10 posts a day roughly - sometimes more, sometimes none at all, though).
- Tyson Key
More of a "learning the value of early adoption" kind of guy which makes me a johnny come lately of sorts... inspired by Twitter, intrigued by FF... and excited about my new account with PeopleBrowsr.
- Matson Breakey
I could hope I would be added to the smart list. Yee-ha!
- Christian Messer
Josh: I wouldn't know how to do it. :-)
- Robert Scoble
Hey Robert - great to follow you on FB and twitter - connect on Friendfeed too? Saw your post on twitter on being an early adopter. As an entrepreneur and SBO following "techie stuff" is important to keep biz running - so I'm a wellness coach and naturopathic consultant who is also a geek.
- Antonia Teixeira
++++++++++OK, I got everyone above here will need to add everyone else tonight, thanks! +++++++
- Robert Scoble
thought you already followed me here, but looks like not.
- Katherine Druckman
Hey Robert, I'm always looking for new products to test and experiment with. Saw your post on Twitter.
- Stefan Halley
Robert, the energy and time it takes to be friends with 150 people in the 'real' world is the limit for most humans. Dunbar number etc. FB automated the 'social graph' i.e the map of our real world relationships. But still demands increasing energy and time to maintain authentic relationships. Twitter is a real 'evolutionary' breakthrough because with a minimum of energy you can staying in 'grooming' range of thousands of people. Is there a Twitter number i.e. the maximum number of people you can follow?
- Mac Taylor
I might be a smart people to follow but you never know. Seriously, I think it would be fun. :-)
- Dragos Roua
Mac: depends on your goal. If it is to drink beer with everyone on your list, then Dunbar number probably comes into play, although I've probably tripled that and have met more than 10,000 people face-to-face (I have 8,000 business cards from just past eight years). But, if you just want to "snack" on a media stream like my real time feed, then you can follow 20,000 without a problem. On FriendFeed it is better, though. I can have "high flow" stream and "low flow" stream that I watch much closer.
- Robert Scoble
In my "low flow" (Called a "list" here on FriendFeed) I've only put about 200 people. It's interesting to see the difference between the two. One is much more focused. The high flow is much more entertaining (more cool YouTube videos and LOLcat photos, etc).
- Robert Scoble
I quite like using Twhirl though - but on the other hand I don't have a massive amount of followers!
- Jim
I still don't get Friend Feed. Anyone got a good video tutorial?
- MarkCarras
Oh why not... I'm doing my share of searching for news, so Scoble should hop on as well. ;)
- Jorg Jansen
Only problem is there isn't a single apparent friendfeed app on iPhone
- Scott
Follow me because I'm a legal community manager at Avvo
- seadevi
Robert - I'm smart cause I can see your offer to follow me is one I can't refuse. I'm an early adopter in manner of following the uber-early adopters so they iron out the new gadget and techy kinks and suchlike. I was already following you btw on Twitter. Not sure I quite get FF yet though.
- nicky jameson
Wow, look at this comment thread, awesome!! :) Lots of cool people, I am subscribing to here...thanks Robert!
- Susan Beebe
Robert, I am somewhat of an early adopter and I hope it makes me smart. I ran a computer business for 11 years and now I am trying to help others learn the business of tech. It seems some of my associates don't think there is value in social networking. I hope that by connecting with respected names who are early adopters of social networks such as Friendfeed and Twitter they will understand that such services can be quite useful in marketing their businesses and supporting their customers.
- Rick Savoia
I'm loving Twitter, need to explore FF a bit more. You never know where you will get inspiration from.
- Dave Kresta
Hi Robert. Actually I'm a huge fan of yours and until now was a lurker, so thanks for the coaxing to come out and introduce myself. :-) I'm an early adopter and given your high praise of FriendFeed, consider myself smart enough to create an account today to join in the conversation. I tweet as well @belindasimcox and am looking forward to seeing the effect your following me has. PS. A big thanks to your generous tweet attitude - I get your tweets sent to my iPhone - they beat the newspaper any day
- Belinda Simcox (Sim)
Hello - I am a MD/PhD working in the field of medical informatics and studying the use of social networks as a model for expanding our work at the New York State Department of Health in patient/clinician medical networks. Still trying to figure out the best use for short messaging. Twitter name is pathalemd.
- Patricia Hale
"This would fall under 3 I guess- I think that champions can have ambassadors. If there is a particular member of your leadership who 'gets it' (or is closer to it), spend a little extra time doing the rest of 1-6 with that person and let her/him do some evangelizing for you in the circles where s/he has pull. :)"
- Erin McMahon
"Great post. I approach social media with my nonprofit lens on most of the time and I often wonder if we're really fully utilizing its 1-1 relationship-building power. While I fully understand the need to protect oneself in this day and age, at the same time, I find- personally and reflected back by others- the need for community, connection and trust to be all the more important."
- Erin McMahon
"Great post. I approach social media with my nonprofit lens on most of the time and I often wonder if we're really fully utilizing its 1-1 relationship-building power. While I fully understand the need to protect oneself in this day and age, at the same time, I find- personally and reflected back by others- the need for community, connection and trust to be all the more important."
- Erin McMahon
"Great post. I approach social media with my nonprofit lens on most of the time and I often wonder if we're really fully utilizing its 1-1 relationship-building power. While I fully understand the need to protect oneself in this day and age, at the same time, I find- personally and reflected back by others- the need for community, connection and trust to be all the more important."
- Erin McMahon
too many. most go into folders i rarely read or skim once a week. I'm guessing over 100 but hopefully less than 200. At work. Plus another 20 at home.
- Laura Norvig