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On Community-Created Content…
First, we’re going to try a “Caption This” community content creation experiment. Then, I’m going to do my best to cover these points (or at least bring them up for discussion):
- The best community tools can’t be built.
- People exist everywhere online, as does the idea of community.
- Content is a commodity, as is community.
- Awaken to the Attention Metric: more important than traffic.
- Community is no longer defined by boundaries; affinity is global.
- Sharing is caring: embedding is the only thing.
- Conversations happen anywhere, anytime.
- You can’t control the community growth process.
- There’s a great amount of control in being out-of-control.
- Social is off-site; Exist Where They Exist.
- The Lazyweb is always more powerful than you.
- Viral happens, it can’t be planned.
- A blog is merely a tool, as are social networks.
- It doesn’t matter if most content sucks – it still exists!
- Brand is becoming increasingly decentralized.
- Content bends around delivery mechanisms.
- Google is the great mitigator.
- Digital distribution is infinitely scalable.
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5 Comments
Reflections by J. Schenone
October 9th, 2008
at 1:40pm
Chris Pirillo VMware Fusion Coupons Optical Drive Coupon Success Caption ThisOn Community-Created Content…
victorseo
October 8th, 2008
at 3:42am
Go Chris GO
Thomas Harrington
October 8th, 2008
at 6:50am
I think We All Should Read Dale Carnegie
Matt
October 8th, 2008
at 7:10am
Looks like it would be a good presentation Chris. I’ll be watching across town in Altoona. Hope the experiment goes well.
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Jonas de los Reyes
October 8th, 2008
at 7:38pm
This is great stuff! Very informative discussion on community and how to engage them. Thanks Cris for sharing this!