“Referencing the CoreConvo at #bcmem on an Etiquette Manifesto, I'm thinking we have a wiki and maybe break it down by SN. Thinking we'd all like to see this as something that came out of #bcmem. What do you think?”
Sounds like a good plan to me. Let's be sure and make it as easy to edit as possible i.e. no login required. - Daniel J. Pritchett
Just created http://goodmanners.wetpaint.co... (I would have gone for etiquette but it's a booger to spell). If goodmanners... is bad, chime in. I'm just playing with it at this point. Jump in. It's been a good while since I Wetpaint'd. - Dave
... but I went with Google because it let me publish an invitation for ANYONE to collaborate. Zoho makes me specify individuals. I wanted to make this public. - Daniel J. Pritchett
Flipping through a presentation online while someone in Asia (and two of us in Memphis) watches was fun. We chatted a bit and had a good time. I can see this working out well for real teamwork. - Daniel J. Pritchett
Adding images is not as easy as it is on the desktop, but it's not all that bad. - Daniel J. Pritchett
Google's AutoShapes aren't nearly as sophisticated as in PowerPoint - Daniel J. Pritchett
Inserting a "click here to edit me" link to the presentation itself was fun! - Daniel J. Pritchett
Rich media presentations that are heavy on the transitions and high-rez graphics are probably better done on the desktop and then *uploaded* to Google. I'll have to try and see how well Google imports that type of candy. - Daniel J. Pritchett
In order to get other people to sign on and edit the presentation I'll probably need to be in the same room with them. Right now it's just an ideal... this is still a one-man presentation so far. - Daniel J. Pritchett
@Gregory: There's not much to it! Go to http://docs.google.com/ and click on "New > Presentation". The rest works sort of like powerpoint meets blogspot. If you've got any particular things you can't work out I'll be glad to take a look. - Daniel J. Pritchett
I enjoyed this and look forward to trying more out. Thanks for sharing AND for participating in BarCamp Memphis. I was glad to hear you'd be presenting. #bcmem - Dave
Quote: "The African-American population share is the key determinant of early voting behavior. In states where there are a lot of black voters, early voting is way, way up. In states with fewer African-Americans, the rates of early voting are relatively normal." - Daniel J. Pritchett
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Not related directly to this post, but I'm a slightly reluctant to think that next the election is going to go off without some type of shameful act somewhere. With so much emotion and polarization culminating on Tuesday, it's like I can hear battle-drums already. Just doesn't seem like the Second place party isn't going to just walk away acknowledging the defeat and congratulating their worthy opponents. Peace. - Dave
Yes. We took notes and debrief dinner on the road home. The ultimate driving principal is going to be the answer to the question: "What is our goal?" I think Nashville went for "BIG" (and it was), but there were some grumblings too about the corporate feel. - Dave
Quote: "Today most people stay at their jobs less than five years, and they depend on themselves to be able to get another job when they need one. So employees are starting to recognize that the old arrangement did not necessarily favor the worker and are looking out for themselves like never before." - Daniel J. Pritchett
With BarCamp Memphis less than 3 weeks away, it seems time to answer the question, once and for all, “What is BarCamp?”
Let’s begin by deciding what BarCamp, most definitely, is not. BarCamp is not every other conference you’ve ever been to. The ones with cold coffee and colder speakers discussing topics that have been decided, possibly months in advance, with little or no audience input. It is not something you go to planning to sit still, look straight ahead, and try not to cough… or snore. It is the un-conference. - Daniel J. Pritchett
I'll do my best to make it. It's likely I'll miss this and only be able to spend part of the day at BarCamp. Good luck on the session - got any presentation topics lined up? - Daniel J. Pritchett
For the Breakfast, one of the presos will be Lorrie Jackson on Social Media in Education. Hate that you might miss part of BarCamp - Lemme know if there's something we can do there to enable your full attendance. - Dave
Chandler's MFA thesis show is the night before and we'll have family in from out of state. I'm not going to make the final week of her 7 years in college any harder than I have to. That said, if there is down time I'll head to BarCamp. - Daniel J. Pritchett
Completely understood and we'll do our best to capture the event to share later. 7 years... many congratulations to her. - Dave
Looking to start a workshop on Social Media. Would love topic suggestions. The workshop will be for one day initially and I am just trying to decide what are the most valuable topics and I don't want to re-invent the wheel. - Roger Kondrat
I could collaborate with you on half a day. A whole day is a tough request from an audience. LongTail, Web 1 vs 2, basic communication transactions, loss of trust from traditional institutions driving WOM, viral concepts, friends status updates, type of social networks, review popular ones, and first steps. - Dave
Quote: "A marketing plan for 2009 should also address what many are calling the “Web 2.0” networking aspects of the maturing Internet, such as Facebook and Twitter." - Daniel J. Pritchett
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USDA grade bologna. Yes, the ROI on spam works. The same tactics cannot be applied long term in the Social sphere. Ignoring it is one passive approach that will not work long term. The Social spheres must be SELF POLICING and we need to start flaming out the aggressive "marketers" that are NOT part of the conversation. We're getting daily Twitter follows from budgets blindly blasting their ignorant dollars at Twitter and more. arg! - Dave
Interruption vs. permission marketing <ref: Seth Godin>. The mindset of most business seems to be interruption, and they are simply trying to take the interruption techniques to the permission based social media. Whoever told me about @spam on Twitter is my hero of the week. - Joe Spake
Lyrics: John Lennon - Crippled Inside - David Newman
No, he wasn't trying to goose Obama. The camera angle is playing making it kinda look that way. This was at the end where McCain was gonna go to his right to shake the moderator's hand and the moderator went to McCain's left so there was a little foot-dancing going on. So, McCain was like okay, left or right, left or right? - Mark Bacas
A real professional -- almost as good as tossing your cookies at a state event in a foreign country - AaronTheLibrarian
i wonder if a picture can have the same impact as a video...i.e. does this picture have the chance of being the equivalent of the dean scream? My guess is not because Howard Stern and Rush can't play a picture on repeat. - mike
I once called mine Lucifer and it was trouble all the way. The next one was therefore called Angel and lived up to it's name. Moral, choose your name carefully. - Toby Graham
CabPro, CabBook Pro, and my old pcs (yes I was pc back in the day!) were always Shweetness 1, 2, etc. - Carmen
Between a laptop, work and home computers, I've had to move through a few names over the years. Currently: Erato and Resident (no laptop). Vide was a good, long-lasting computer. There were a string of pain relievers: Advil, Motrin, Tylenol.. Before that were ships from The Culture: Grey Area, Limiting Factor, Ethics Gradient, Limivourous You can find a nice list of suitable computer names here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L... - stretta
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Yeah, I think there's a platypus obsession going on... PlatypiMac, PlatypiBook, PlatyPC, and this one here, I think will be the Platyvaio (It's a hand me down, but what the heck.) - Brian Norwood
I had a work computer named Walter. Also have had ones called Ignatz, Krazy Kat, Duncan, Navi, and TARDIS. Now at home the big box is The Hub, and the notebook is TARDIS v2. - Nine
Yeah, my desktop is kremlin, laptop is czarism2100, and mobile is czarq9h (the numbers match the models. Presario-2100 and moto-q9h.) - "Czar" DJ Peterman
My MacBook Pro is Minion. My servers are Ovid, Catullus, and Virgil. - Glen Campbell
My old Dell laptop is the Mystery Machine. Haven't come up with a name for the MacBook yet, and I suppose I could give all four of my external hard drives names, too. Uhoh... this is going to consume the rest of my day. - The Bohemian Penguin
The way Kirsten Norman tells it, the vanity license plates on her Volkswagen Jetta were meant as a tribute to a friend who died from cancer. The Commonwealth of Virginia, however, had a different interpretation of "STFU-PLS." Acting on a September e-mail complaint that the acronym stood for "Shut The Fuck Up Please," the Department of Motor Vehicles quickly recalled the plates, sending Norman a letter noting that the tags were "issued in error" and no longer valid. Along with the correspondence, DMV officials sent Norman new plates (the less distinctive "KDA 347") and asked her to return the personalized plates in a self-addressed envelope they provided. Norman responded with an amusing October letter in which she explained the supposedly true meaning of "STFU-PLS." Norman noted that she would not allow the state to "tell me what I can and cannot say on my license plates because of what you THINK it means. This goes against my first amendment rights." Additionally, in an e-mail to TSG, Norman added, "God the - Carmen
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This will be part of my wife's MFA thesis show this November. It's a series of her watercolors set to an audio recording from the Kent State shootings during the Vietnam war. http://chandlerpritchett.blogs... - Daniel J. Pritchett
Thanks for sharing this. Without having to go play the music, I of course heard CSNY's Ohio in the back of my mind while watching her watercolor montage http://www.youtube.com/watch?v... I appreciate her data and rapidfire transitions. - Dave
