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Episode 6, about 30 minutes.

Today’s Topics

• SXSW heads-up
• Community 2.0 conference thoughts
• Brainstorming on how create interesting conference panel conversations via role-playing (eg. what are the issues brought up by CEO, product manager, etc.)
• Thoughts on creating metrics for measuring success with business communities

With Jake McKee, Lee LeFever and Christopher Carfi.

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Medieval tech support video.

(thanks, jim!)

On a related note: Doc gets medieval on Adobe tech support (in that Ving Rhames sort of way).

Making final prep for heading down to Austin for SXSW. Seeya there.

Just realized the word “twitterati” (twitterati : n. – “those who use twitter.”) is in March 2007 where the word “podcast” was in October 2004. I have a feeling there’ll be more, soon.

(My handle on Twitter is ccarfi, btw.)

Lots of new features up on the Haystack networking site this morning.

Dave: "It was a mistake to believe that creativity was something you could delegate, no matter how much better they were than you, because it’s an important human activity, like breathing, eating, walking, laughing, loving."

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Episode 5, about 30 minutes.

Today’s Topics

• Report from the Northern Voice conference.

With Jake McKee, Lee LeFever and Christopher Carfi.

(crossposted from http://www.clueunit.com)

John Coate: “Assigning the mantle of ‘community’ to one’s enterprise before-the-fact as a marketing hook just serves to cheapen the term. Because it can only really be true if the people who are actively involved in it, declare for themselves that it is true: we are a community.”

N.B. That sentence was written in 1998. Or earlier.

Via Stowe, from Google Now Reporting Subscribers:

“Starting with our Saturday February 17th subscriber reporting, FeedBurner publishers will be able to see how many Google Reader and Google Personalized Homepage subscribers they have. (Thanks, Google!) This information will show up in tonight’s subscriber reports (meaning that most of you will start to see the data on Saturday morning, U.S. Central Time).

What does this mean? This is one more data point to help you understand how many people have asked to receive your feed (aka “subscribers”). For those who are interested in the particulars, the number that Google is reporting is the total number of Google users who’ve subscribed to your feed in Reader or with Personalized Homepage.”

So there ya go.

Paul Sweeney: “Could one disgruntled bully wreck an entire customer service team? William Felps and Terence Mitchell of the University of Washington Business School think so.”