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There are many people in our industry who think they are a lot more important than they really are…People who measure themselves by false metrics such as Twitter followers, Facebook friends, LinkedIn connections, or any other data that doesn’t actually measure the amount of good you’re bringing to the world.

– from a commentary about Jason Calacanis’ fake pre-launch tweets about the iPad Never Dupe Your Readers, Mike Industries

Related video: my web 2.0 talk Authenticity Is the New Authority and Tummelvision 4 w/ Kathy Sierra

Episode Notes

Episode 4 – Download the Show

Kathy Sierra joined us for a great conversation about her biggest passion: you. Note-worthy moments and themes:

– How do you create excellent experiences for users
– Clay Shirky’s recent rant about women, wishing they’d show more chutzpah and self-promotion
– a useful unself promotion approach to work and social media presence than “personal branding.” It’s certainly working for Kathy.
– Why follower counts aren’t the thing to pay attention to
– the iPad’s social possibilities both online and between real life and online.
– Deb quoted the Talmud tonight, Kathy Sierra Daniel Pink and me QVC. That’s range!
– Deb got a cowbell, Heather grabbed a hairbrush and Kevin rocked out
– We never wanna get ourselves free. This week’s song is so very cowbell worthy.
– Books mentioned: Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience (P.S.)– Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (Kathy dropped his name all casual-like) and Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us
– Daniel Pink

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80’s theme song: Caught Up in You

Episode Notes

Episode 3 – Download the Show

Deb and Kevin chat with two of the women who helped make what gets called “community” in the “web 2.0” world work. Heather videos in from the airport for a minute. Champ and Oates were both involved in the creation of Flickr, considered the first real “web 2.0” site and a model of a strong community using social media. There’s no one who knows more about what design and community features and human interactions affect social engagement online. Champ and Oates are insightful and witty. They’re the opposite of Big Brother. But they are watching you.

Thanks to Director of Community at Flickr Heather Champ and Lead for the Open Library at Internet Archive George Oates.

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80’s theme song: They’re Watching You

Recrently it seems that everywhere I turn there are people discussing the Human Side of life – or as we here at TUmmelvision refer to it – the art of social engagement.   So I was pleasantly surprised to see this recent article from Gary Hamel in his WSJ blog.  Gary discussed the  need for bringing soul back to business in this article entitled “The Hole in the Soul of Business”

A noble purpose inspires sacrifice, stimulates innovation and encourages perseverance. In so doing, it transforms great talent into exceptional accomplishment. That’s a fact—and it leaves me wondering: Why are words like “love,” “devotion” and “honor” so seldom heard within the halls of corporate-dom? Why are the ideals that matter most to human beings the ones that are most notably absent in managerial discourse?

This article brought back to mind one of my favorite quotes from one of my favorite movies – Dead Poet Society.

We don’t read and write poetry because it’s cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the human race is filled with passion. And medicine, law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for. To quote from Whitman, “O me! O life!… of the questions of these recurring; of the endless trains of the faithless… of cities filled with the foolish; what good amid these, O me, O life?” Answer. That you are here – that life exists, and identity; that the powerful play goes on and you may contribute a verse. That the powerful play *goes on* and you may contribute a verse. What will your verse be?

The nature of our networked world in which we now have the power and ability to participate is pretty darn exciting.  We just have to remember to not strip technology from it’s human essence.

Episode Notes

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Thanks to guest game designer Nicole Lazzaro

What we discussed this week.

-Nicole’s thoughts on CES trends. The game world is missing the social experience. Nicole’s ideas on how games create emotion. Daniel Floyd’s great video on why video games are missing a broader female audience. Relational and social thinking is the key. If your goal is to get people engaged and involved then you are beginning to think like a tummler.

-Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg implies that privacy is dead. How does being public help you tummel and engage people?

-Vanity Fair on social media “twilebrities.” Gawker wasn’t impressed either. Anil Dash noted, in a typically thoughtful piece, that no one has over a million followers. We are quite sure than follower numbers don’t matter as much as most people assume they do.

-Tummeling Technique: Heather explained the importance of going first via the infamous Sasquatch Dance Party video.

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80’s theme song: Games People Play