What’s On Your Mind?

What’s on my mind? The gap of opinion about PodCamps charging seems to be positive and negative, split interestingly among those who do versus those who just talk and wax poetic but never accomplish anything. The do-ers are all for more freedom, more flexibility, and more accountability, more responsibility. The talkers, not so much. Personal responsibility I guess will never be high on their priority list.

Matthew Ebel’s new album, Goodbye Planet Earth (http://www.GoodbyePlanetEarth.com) is phenomenal and I’ve been listening to it non-stop since I got it on Saturday. It’s making me think about how to go from grass to mass, as it were. Selling albums for $10/copy to podcasters is great, but we’re a shallow pool compared to the number of iPod owners out there. How do we get more people to buy into the stuff we love?

I am trying to Analyze the Latest Google Apps announcements !
I feel Google has a real head start in merging semantics,general semantics and mathematics into the world of creating effective generic content ! I feel Gmail will allow with its apps a way for all of us to communicate in the Social Networking world in an orderly
manner ! Thinking!

I’m trying to see into the future and figure out what direction(s) to take at the beginning of my (adult) life. Exciting and intimidating at the same time.

Last week we had to deal with a depressed older member who was cavalierly talking about her plan to off herself on our forums. And while we took steps and feel confident she isn’t an immeadiate danger to herself, we’re left trying to formulate some kind of policy regarding how to handle this kind of talk either in our forums or chat rooms. This was not something for which we (or our wonderful volunteer moderators) were prepared. Since our legal brain is out of town, we’ve been left to debate about liability vs compassion on our own.

I bring this up because this is an issue that may face others in the social media sphere as well. Our current ad-hoc policy is to deal with this on a case-by-case basis, but that’s not going to work forever, nor will it work for a larger community than ours. Thoughts?

Been thinking about the social media release and what other kinds of templates have grown obsolete. One idea – the resume. With employers Googling applicants’ names, attempting to gain a more complete picture of prospective hires, I’m starting to think the resume should provide links to our work-related web real estate.

I am still wrestling with my write up of what PodCamp Boston was all about especially in regard to the free vs. charge discussion. I came away pumped and that with only attending 3 sessions. Yes, I could have done more but there was always business at the registration desk.

The new toys are cool, but it would be better if they really worked. Utterz, for example, prevents comments on posts and doesn’t allow for permalinks, so it is not quite ready for prime time. But it will be slick when it fixes these.

I guess this is one of the key questions: when are you ready for prime time? or do you just go when you’re good enough and figure it out as you go?

There are too many social networks…when can we consolidate them?

I’m bootstrapping a cleantech startup so the top 5 things on my mind right now are clients, employees, telephony, CRM, and site selection. Past the initial startup phase, then I’ll quickly need to understand how social media and digital relationships will apply.

“Being in touch” is a good topic. I think I’m in touch with a lot of things – but I’m on the other side of the mountain where Travis find himself in comment #3.

While Travis is “trying to see into the future and figure out what direction(s) to take at the beginning of my (adult) life. Exciting and intimidating at the same time” I’m on the opposite end of that continuum.

In February I’ll be 60 years old and in many ways my body is 80 though my idea-generating skills are 20. Though I can see myself being active in the world of relationship media for another fifteen years I’m not sure the community at large is ready for that to happen.

Here’s what I mean. Physically because of injury & a non fatal chronic illness I’m unable to do conferences. I’m far from being able to handle the hours or the logistics.

And though I used to feel that being connected through blogs, facebook, twitter & Second Life was enough, I feel the pressure of what I feel is a somewhat naive social media community to do more.

“Participate” we all yell – and I’m guilty as anyone of that. But it’s as if being absent from conferences and not a podcaster/vlogger discounts one’s worth and relegates on to some back burner of being less than a serious player in the new media world.

So what to do about this. How to team up with others or find a face to stand in for a team that is unable to “be there”? That’s what I’m wrestling with. Thanks for listening.

How can we break down the barriers that exist between the masses and blogs/podcasts? So many don’t understand the passion of a few.

What’s on my mind? I’m in a group that is completely disconnected from Sales, Marketing, and Customer Service. We should be feeding each other, and we aren’t. And powerful forces in my group are keeping it that way. Here comes teh suck.

What’s on my mind? I’m REALLY looking forward to BlogWorld next week. Like Susan in #9,this social media has enabled me to connect and interact with people in a way I couldn’t in the real world. But I do miss the face-to-face and fear I may regret that later in life. So I’m really excited about meeting my imaginary friends and colleagues next week.

I’m also eager to soak up all I can about social media because I KNOW it is my future. I want to figure out how I can use it to generate enough income so that I can get off social assistance once and for all.

Also wondering how to drive major traffic to http://blogforayear.com/profiles/glenda-watson-hyatt so I win and be paid to blog for a year.

There is a lot on my mind per usual. Shall I continue? ;)

The cool stuff above. Also, the sudden realization I can have a lot of fun in the next 3 weeks playing at storytelling with my MacBook, digital camera, Seesmic & Twitter.

I’m enjoying using Jott.com, a service that let’s me post twitters from my phone using only my voice. Jott does the speech to text transcoding and puts that text into twitter, along with an audio link.

Pretty neat.

Is it worth having (at least) two blogs on a topic: An article-length one (lots of work, and hopefully deep with high value – what I currently do, aka a “think blog”) and a stream-of-consciousness one (much easier – assuming an “idea stream” coming in –, good value, but ideas not fleshed out). I don’t think the latter is a “link blog,” though. Maybe a “plink blog.” :-)