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Online Communities, Member Maps, Virtual Chats, Sparkpeople, Intercom, and More
March 7th, 2007 | Posted in Podcasts 2 Comments »
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Duration: 34 min.
In this podcast, Heidi and I talk about online communities, member maps, virtual chats, Sparkpeople, Intercom, and more.
Here are links to the topics discussed in this podcast:
- Suncoast Member map
- Virtual Chat
- Ze Frank Show
- Google Maps API
- Making a map
- Batchgeocoder
- Searchmash
- Ask a Ninja
- Sparkpeople
- DMN C0mmunications
- Software Saturdays
- Web 2.0
- Fitting podcasts into your day
- STC Conference
- Suncoast Chapter (Florida)
- Puget Sound Chapter (Washington)
- Intercom
- Music from Achtung Spitfire
- Tom’s blog
- Heidi’s blog
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Another great podcast. Very pleasant listening to your conversation in the train. A bit embarrassing if you make me smile or laugh – I get stares from the people around me.
You’ve inspired me to write a few posts in response once I get past a few mad deadlines. I am sneaking in a minute of free time to comment here about 2 things.
1. Tom – you talked about sites like digg where users rate news in a Web2.0 app. Were you thinking about newsvine?
2. I have now joined SparkPeople, thanks to this tip. Very interesting indeed. All do-it-yourself methods do depend on YOU sticking to the task. They do use technology in fun ways to keep you motivated, and the strength of a virtual community is displayed very nicely here. Thanks, Heidi and Tom!
2a. Getting my head around the walking exercises ranking method (for fitness) was hard – until I found a tip about the mapmyrun site – that has to be another smart mashup. Very cool.
3. You talk about making shorter podcasts. Idea: If you are on a roll with some discussion and end up with, say, 45 minutes, can’t you just break it in two during editing. You don’t even have to make it a part 1 and part 2. For example, you could have split the Intercom part and the SparkPeople part into two separate broadcasts without detracting from either. That way you don’t interrupt yourselves if you are all fired up about some topics — just capture all that excitement and then edit it into a final product that has different chunks.
Cheers!
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