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- My recent tracks on Last.fmToday
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The most recent tracks I've been listening to on last.fm:
Led Zep by Blonde Redhead from the In an Expression of the Inexpressible album. Listen to it now »Luv Machine by Blonde Redhead from the In an Expression of the Inexpressible album. Listen to it now »Missile by Blonde Redhead from the 1999-07-21: Louisville, KY, USA album. Listen to it now »Speed x Distance = Time by Blonde Redhead from the In an Expression of the Inexpressible album. Listen to it now »Futurism Vs. Passéism, Part 2 by Blonde Redhead from the unknown album. Listen to it now »Distilled by Blonde Redhead from the In an Expression of the Inexpressible album. Listen to it now »One With the Freaks by The Notwist from the Neon Golden album. Listen to it now » - We are the mashups we want to see (Plz RT, Digg)Yesterday
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People have been asking a lot about ways for us to continue the momentum of the Obama campaign. How do we make sure that the country doesn't snap back into apathy and how do we work together to identify and address our problems. Clearly, the internet is going to be a major organizing mechanism... but how? With which tools?
Here's an idea I've been toying around with:
Make local.change.gov into a directory of discoverable placenames... local.change.gov/11209 or local.change.gov/Bay_Ridge. On those pages, mashup and localize a few services that are meant to inform, encourage collaboration, provide feedback and ideas, etc. Here's what I would add:
Get Satisfaction: A place where people could not only complain, but provide ideas and solutions, too. Make sure my local elected representatives are on it, too, so they could be accountable when someone posts an issue and no one responds. I think local government (and education, too) are hugh opportunities for GS to seed pages for people to discover.
Meetup: They should create a placeholder Meetup for Change group in every zipcode, so that people aren't just adding their ideas to the cloud--they're getting out of the house and doing something about them. List other local Meetups, too, and make it easy to create new ones right from these pages.
Outside.in: What's the community talking about? What's going on around you? Seems fitting that hyperlocal news should be fed i - (Poking the bear) An idea for the NY Tech Meetup: Disband itDecember 1
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When Scott Heiferman announced his abdication from the NY Tech Meetup throne at the last Meetup, he said that he had asked himself the question of whether the Meetup could be more than just a once a month pitch meeting.
It's exactly the same question I asked three years ago when I started nextNY. At the time, Meetup.com didn't have listservs, so it was much more of an event than it was any kind of community. Twitter wasn't around, so even during the event itself, people seemed kind of disconnected from each other. There were no afterparties either. I actually wanted to meet the people at the event, particularly the up and comers who were in my peer group, so I asked Scott if it was ok to form another group and he was fully supportive. Now, we're at 2,000 people and growing, and our @shakeshack event was the hot community event over the summer.
But nextNY didn't solve everyone's needs. Some people wanted more of a direct connection to financing, and so David and Yao created a unique business opportunity for themselves by founding the Hatchery around that premise. They throw pitch meetings and investor matchups--and that obviously wouldn't be relevant for all the members of the NY Tech Meetup.
There have also been more focused groups, like the Video 2.0 Meetup group, which itself supports almost 2500 people, and industry meetups like the Fashion 2.0 Meetup, where over 200 entrepreneurs at the crossro
- My del.icio.us linksNovember 29
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Links I've recently tagged on del.icio.us:
How to Build Up a Bike: hmm... maybe I'll just do this on my own tip from @kellissimaBuzzMachine » Blog Archive » Hacked U:I tagged it with: education
Create automatic posts like this one using fubnub.com » - TeachStreet and the untapped potential education marketNovember 28
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I've been watching TeachStreet because I'm obviously interested in the education market, but they also participated in my Blogger's Challenge review thing, so their kind donation has bubbled my opinions up to the surface of my blog.
Right now, TeachStreet has a little bit of a chicken and egg issue--not enough classes listed in every area and therefore not enough of a critical mass of students I'd imagine. Part of the reason? This is covered in their note to teachers who discover themselves on the site.
"Please know however that we searched for your information the "old-fashioned" way, with people-power, not with bots, spiders or by paying for your information off of a list."
Hmm... I don't know about that. I mean, I understand the intention there--quality control--but that's just the hurdle that being an aggregator entails. At least with something like Indeed.com, you have a high confidence that if there's a job out there to be found, it's on Indeed. That's a very powerful marketing message and it drives site traffic. Just being "all the classes we found so far" isn't going to be enough to drive people away from industry specific sites, like Media Bistro, or people who have established reputations around online learning, like the Learning Annex or University of Phoenix.
This got me thinking... Is the current set of existing classes really