Author Archives: missrogue

Interview with Austin Hill, Akoha.org

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Very cool

I like their idea of gifts…:)
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You may be a community freeloader if you…

[re-posted from HorsePigCow]
q: What do you call someone who joins communities, adds friends and generally uses social networking tools to promote their own interests solely?
a: a community freeloader
Now, promoting your interests within a community isn’t a bad thing, per se. Having strong networks of people is a great advantage to furthering your causes, getting advice, […]

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3 Ways to Raise Social Capital

For those of you who are concerned with the possibility of raising your own Social Capital, it’s pretty simple, really. There are three major ways to do it and they all intersect:

Be Nice
Be Notable
Be Networked

The Spread Love Project is firmly rooted in the first, Be Nice, because in the world of community, nice guys (and […]

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Social Capitalists

From Wikipedia:

Social capital is a core concept in business, economics, organizational behaviour, political science, and sociology, defined as the advantage created by a person’s location in a structure of relationships. “By analogy with physical capital and human capital - tools and training that enhance human productivity - the core idea of social capital theory is […]

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What does it mean to Spread Love?

Yeah, really, what the heck does that mean? It sounds a little namby pamby, doesn’t it?
Well, that’s because stuff like love and caring and compassion have been severely underrated in today’s world. I don’t know when it happened. One theory is that feelings and emotions, along with the arts, religion and humanities, were swept under […]

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Spread Love

[reposted from HorsePigCow]
In my recent presentation at e.day, my “5 sure-fire steps to transforming yourself from a spammer into a connector” (said with booming voice) were:

Turn that bullhorn around: stop talking and start listening
Be part of the community you serve: get out of the boardroom and into the community
Design for maximum happiness: design products that […]

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Hello world!

Indeed! On a whim, I decided that I would try to install my own blog and forum to give it a shot here, and guess what? It seems to be working fine…complete with some snazzy plugins and a theme I tweaked (the original is called Moo-Point and was one of the winners of the very […]

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