Participating in Digital Community, or Lots of Links to David

I’ve been doing some thinking about all the different digital communities I participate in on the web, so I thought I’d create a list of them. It’s not a short list.
Things I use the most:

My blog (it’s an active community)
Flickr
Twitter (as I write this post, someone else just started following me on Twitter!)
Facebook
del.icio.us
AIM (I’m [...]

SXSWi2008, Day 3: Social Networking and your Brand

Coolness - they’re taking questions during the presentation using twitter - twitter.com/snayb4sxsw - great use of twitter!
panelists:
Paul Boag, Jina Bolton, Mark Norman Francis, Steve Ganz, Steve Smith
Defining social networking
it’s something we’ve done forever - even before the web
ways to use personal brand
not just logos and letterhead
your brand is simply the promise of an experience
ways to [...]

SXSWi2008, Day 2: Social Network Coups: The Users are Revolting!

Panelists: Jessamyn West, Gina Trapani, Jessica Dzwigalski, Annalee Newitz
[aside] - I came to hear/see Jessamyn, who completely rocks! But the panel was good, too.
Newitz:
three kinds of user revolts:

anarchist-style pranks
grassroots protests
op-ed/open letter from high-profile users

Discussed some Digg revolts:

paying people to Digg your page
the HD code thing

Dzwigalski (Jessica Linden):

Griefers - tax revolt in July 2003
CopyBot protest, Nov [...]

1000 True Fans - Can We Have 1000 True Patrons?

I just read 1000 True Fans from Kevin Kelly’s blog - great article! I suggest you go read it. And then come back! Because… I’m wondering… can that model work in a library/non-profit/website setting?
Here’s the gist of the idea presented in the article: for artists or creatives to make a living, they don’t really need [...]

Has Elvis Left the Building?

Gee whiz. Every now and then, someone decides to share that some new-fangled “library 2.0″ project didn’t work out … and others start claiming “After John Blyberg and others come out and say that library 2.0 didn’t work and neither did tagging, etc., the flood gates open.” Huh?
It might be good to remember two things:

If [...]