So… You have this crazy idea…. community blogging with Nancy White – (OMG NANCY WHITE! Heh. Sort of live blogging, sort of not – depending on connection and whether I get so crazy listening to Nancy that I can’t concentrate. )
Get ready! (Heh! Flickr feed will have photos. ) Blurb blog books sponsored the panel – 5 minute presentation, gave us a sample book. They need Typepad beta testers. Contact them.
Buzz Marketing w/Blogs – Suzanna is talking now. Introducing herself. Talking about "tools".
Nancy White handing out chocolate. ’96 is when she started. Interested in how people get together and do things they want to do online – over-passionate, is there is such a thing.
Lauren Gelvin – Center for Internet Society – privacy, free space – Yale. Answering any legal questions. Working with women law students, creating a website for women law students. Women not being treated well by the guys.
Melanie Morgan – crazy person (in a cool way) – started community for people of color
Audience – examples of community:
Yvonne – lipsticking– marketing to women. Connect via blogging.
Mommy Blogger Mary Tsao – mommies have come together through comments and blogging. Daddyblogging? There are daddyblogs.
Myspace is a blog community for kids – Nancy’s son met, dated, broke up, made up all on line
Clutter museum – found community of women who blog anonymously in academia. Graduate students blogging anonymously.
Maria Bennet – wiki – essays about plays. Too much spam in the wiki. Moved to a yahoo message board and use blogs now. Wiki as a tool for community.
Beth! Kanter! Community! Cambodian Blogosphere/Global Voices. (I love Beth) Her kids are Cambodian – she learns about culture through blogging to share with her kids. Lost tooth story, Cambodian culture.
Jenn ____ – writing exercise, death in the family, post partum writing her way through it. Offline community friends she encouraged them to start their own blogs to help them get through it. Why do it? Why blog your way through these things? To get similar views, to get different ideas and to just put it out there and know someone else was reading it, listening. Now some of her offline friends are doing it. Became better friends through blogging than they were "face to face friends" (this is interesting and I think this happens a lot…)
Mary Tsao wants to know how to set a community blog for offline people – you have a club, a blog would work great, how do you set up a blog? Get people started.
Someone wants to know how you get people together, to DO something ie citizen journalism.
How do you define a community. The purpose.
How do you choose your technology for a group?
Legal aspects of wetting up a community blog around a brand.
Strategy for seeking out local bloggers – metro bloggers. Jess (I have some ideas for jess, emailing her this week)
How do you cultivate your community and then not burn out?
Jill Davis – how to encourage productive communication particularly in a controversial topic situation. us/them. Here’s the us/them stuff from sxsw
Parents group – things to do for kids. targeted for non-bloggers. 2nd wave strategy.
Jewish fringe? Friends? How to get more people involved.
What’s your primary motivation, when joining a group site.
Lauren is speaking – no site, in development. Stanford law school (didn’t she say Yale first?) There were problems with the guys not treating female law students well. Inappropriate touching, guys going out and talking about the women, men speaking out in class and over-speaking the women. This can’t be just a problem with Stanford. How do we get in touch with other women, at other schools? She’d attended Blogher and so they decided to start a group – ran into a lot of problems. What was it gonna be about, what was the format? group blogs? None of the women had blogged so it wasn’t as easy – she mentored them through the blogging process. Workshop with 15 different law schools – flew 2 women from each school and walked them through the process. Laura Scott, Lisa Stone. Her goal was to be able to walk away from it and be run by the students themselves. It wasn’t her site, her vision – she wanted to set it up, give them the tools and training and walk away. Two days – tension and friction about design and goals and guidelines. Not the goal to be the best women’s politics site but could be the best women in law site. Set some guidelines so you’re good at one thing, rather than a little bit of everything. (Ping Vision aka Laura Scott set up forums/blogs to discuss what they wanted the site to be – got use to using the tools before launch. ) http://ms-jd.org will be the site (it will be non-profit).
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New Media Collective – launched at black history month – people of color in the blogosphere. video, audio, photo. She started because the real people site only had one person of color featured.
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Suzanna inherently flawed community. Technology questions – newbies. "We talk, the get their info and then they leave." Oh can I relate! A lot of her "community" happens in email. People ask questions in email, she connects people to each other. Facilitating connections.
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Nancy – Share Your Story – started as message boards. These are the second wave people, she wasn’t sure Lee LeFever was right about giving them blogs. She was wrong. 20K active users in a month. No story goes unresponded to. 24 hours for a response. webcrossing blogs. not great software but simpled it down. community had the power, they told them what to add what to fix what tools weren’t working in the blogs.
Bloghogs on Share – the community doesn’t like a bloghog, posting really often because they want to read every single person’s blog and they can’t do that if people post a lot. Some troll-like behavior on the blogs. They have health professionals who check to make sure people aren’t posting unprofessionally. They have health professionals to encourage people to seek crisis assistance if they need it.
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We’re breaking off into groups to talk about real situations. We can move to other groups. Or start our own community.
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dang…right up your alley kinda stuff…nice pics too!
Thanks for linking to the Us/Them stuff. I need to add to the wiki!
Great job with the liveblogging, Denise. No, it doesn’t compensate for not being there – what could? But, it’s certainly appreciated by me!
Have a great time, both of you – I’m sure you will. 🙂