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Community Gets Real
Nearly 11 years ago, I outlined a framework to calculate the costs of building a proprietary community. The conceptual and operational aspects (1, 2, 4, 5, 6) still hold. Good content at number 3 is the opportunity: to differentiate, weave a good narrative, and establish a path to value. But there are some fundamental…
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Role of Tradition in Culture and Community Building
January 6 is the day Italian children celebrate La Befana, an Italian tradition since the XIII Century. It comes from Christian legend rather than popular culture, but it is the culture that keeps the tradition alive with twists through the ages. If you're curious about this story, Tony DePaola wrote and illustrated it in The…
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Tech Review: Unstuck iPad App
Unstuck from Unstuck on Vimeo. “Even the most skilled leaders get stuck. That's because the most worthy work is often the hardest to undertake.” [(un)Stuck SY Partners] I met Keith Yamashita at the last Fast Company Real Time event in Miami ten years ago. At the conference, Fast Company and SY Partners set up a…
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Before I Die, I Want to…
“Preparing for death is one of the most empowering things you can do. Thinking about death clarifies your life.” [Candy Chang] +++ Earlier in the month, thanks to my friend Mark from Royal Bank, I had the opportunity to attend TEDx Phoenixville and meet people who have rolled up their sleeves and are making a…
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XOXO Conference Theme: Marketplaces that Connect People
I still remember when people were saying that video conferencing would replace in person meetings. We have more tools to communicate than we ever had — phone, email, social networks, video casts — and sometimes (even often) they come in handy We still crave proximity. As social beings we cannot be reduced to thoughts navigating…
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How Jermaine Dupri Connects the Community
It's not every day that you get first row seats at a conversation with a known American record producer, songwriter, and rapper. This is a shot I took with my phone at Digital Age 2.0 Wednesday morning. With Jermaine Dupri, or Mr_Dupri on Twitter, is David Deal of iCrossing. As I tweeted, I was watching…
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News: NASDAQ Rolls Out Community Site
The NASDAQ Stock Market (NASDAQ) is an American stock exchange. It is the largest electronic screen-based equity securities trading market in the United States, with approximately 3,700 companies and corporations listed (Wikipedia as revised by company). If you've been to Times Square in New York city, you've probably seen the studio and watched interviews and…
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Meet DJ Waldow, Community Builder
As he tells the story, when he was in high school, his good friend used to call him the “social butterfly.” He was that guy who got bored real quick if he was not engaging with other people. That's how social butterfly guy was hatched – his wife Kristina suggested the "guy" at the end.…
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My Twitter 20 Interview on Conversation and Community
In case you missed it, I was a guest on Jay Baer's Twitter 20 interview on Twitter this week. Thank you for that, Jay. It was fun, especially since I had no idea what questions you were going to ask. I met Jay at SxSWi when I had the opportunity to have face time with…