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"Conversation. What is it? A Mystery! It's the art of never seeming bored, of touching everything with interest, of pleasing with trifles, of being fascinating with nothing at all. How do we define this lively darting about with words, of hitting them back and forth, this sort of brief smile of ideas which should be conversation?" Guy de Maupassant

Wednesday, July 26, 2006

Blogs & Community - Nancy White

Don't miss Nancy's five-part series on Blogs and Community where she identifies three forms of blog-based communities - blog centric, topic centric, community centric. She then examines them through two lenses - social and tech/design, and lists out implications around each. 

Reading the whole series, Nancy raises many issues which I struggle with.  I think some of us straddle all three types of blogging -- I am a blog-centric blogger with Conversations with Dina, a topic-centric blogger with a loosely-knit communities around social media, ethnography, qualitative research; and have been and am a community-centric blogger with Worldchanging (GULP - no posts there for ages from me) and all the Help blogs.  Would be interesting to see how my behaviour and interactions vary depending on where or what I am blogging.

Some of the questions she has in her last post on the series:
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Lots to think about on my long flight tonight ... am looking forward to meeting you again Nancy .. and to your session at BlogHer!


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BlogHer Conference '06

I leave tonight and will be on a panel discussion on Day Two on Community Assistance:

Community Assistance: BlogHers are cutting through the red tape and doing it for themselves, delivering tangible aid to communities in need, locally and around the world. Many blogs focus on raising awareness, but sometimes they actually raise money, become a hub for victim assistance or even put those who want to help directly in touch with those who need the help. Betty Sullivan, whose Betty's List has been assisting the San Francisco LGBT community for years, talk to Sara Ford, Grace Davis and Dina Mehta about why and how they did it. Learn how you can too.

Will try and blog the event. There are some really interesting sessions lined up here are some that I have earmarked to attend - they might change when there :):

Day One:
So you have this crazy idea, Audience building and $$$s, Tagging, tracking and what's this structured blogging
Day Two:
Identity and Obligations, From Here to Autonomy - Blogger as Entrepreneur (which i will miss as it runs parallel to our session - will keep one eye out on that if i can), Next Level Naked,

I hope to share experiences and learnings around all the work we've done with the World Wide Help blogs and wikis, with MumbaiHelp and the Mumbai Help Wiki and the recent Bloggers Against Censorship activism. And am looking forward to learning about how others are using social media for community assistance!



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