Reflections on blogging the override

Blogging the information on the override was fun. I learned a whole lot about Proposition 2 1/2. About town government. About town finances. About the school budget. About the workings of our government. Franklin is not a very online community. The student population is much more online than the adult population. The primary exposure of the adult population to online activity is email. They can follow a link in an email but are not sophisticated about RSS feeds, commenting on blogs, and other similar activities. The town does have an online forum but it seems to be limited to a small group. The forum allows anonymous profiles which does not foster a real good conversation. I hesitated to join but while I have tried to obtain access, several attempts are still pending acknowledgment. There is a good opportunity to use Web 2.0 tools like blogs, social network sites (Facebook, etc.), and to enable a healthy discussion amongst identified individuals in Franklin's future.

Quotes & Links

From Tim Sanders writing at Sanders Says He trusted their musical judgment enough to look for the beauty of the beat. One player remarked, and I believe this, "trust is a two way street." Read Tim's full posting here about the coach that listened to the music his players listed to. From Joy des Jardins guest blogging at Time Goes By So what’s the lesson to be learned here? That as soon as each one of us is old enough to realize the gift that we have been given, we should give back and treat others the way they were meant to be treated - with respect and understanding, love and compassion. Not in bits and pieces, but every day. Read Joy's full posting here. From Robert Brady writing at Pureland Mountain When I was in college I didn't need naps most of the time because I was already asleep anyway, since being a creature of the night I slept well beyond nap time, which was only a minor disappointment. Still, I remained an interested amateur. So I didn't realize my full siesta potential until I lived in Spain, where my soporific exercises helped me rise to the Olympian level of afternoon somnolence that I now enjoy on pretty close to a daily basis. When the whole country is filled with Zs and even the labs are closed for siesta, the tendency is to go lie down and close your eyes. Read Robert's full posting on the recent study about the benefits of napping. Enjoy! napping music caring

YouTube - You caught!

YouTube has uses beyond what it was intended for. I think there will be more coming. What am I talking about? Did you hear about the criminals caught because the video captured during one of the escapades was posted to YouTube? A policeman from another Massachusetts community identified the video culprits. Johnson put the footage on the Franklin Police Web site. Then the officer, a user of both YouTube and the social networking site MySpace, decided to put technology to the test. "It seemed logical to me," said Johnson, who runs the department's computer network in his spare time. "A lot more people visit YouTube than the Franklin Police site." Johnson also sent an alert to the media. Pretty soon, he said, police departments up and down Interstate 495 reported that the case sounded similar to ones they were investigating. A Cohasset Police officer saw a TV news piece on Franklin's use of YouTube, watched the video and got in touch with Johnson, identifying the suspects as the Terrios. "They're career criminals," Johnson said of the pair. "This is what they do." The duo remained at-large until Tuesday, when Middleborough Police responded to a disturbance call at a Holiday Inn and arrested the pair. They had stolen credit cards in their possession, Johnson said. It is unclear when their Franklin case could come to court. In the end, it was old-fashioned police work that solved the case, not technology. However, Johnson said the YouTube post helped police gather information on the case and connect the dots. Moving forward, the officer said YouTube represented a model for free and easy communication among departments, something that does not always occur. Gotta love new technology! Read the full Milford Daily News article here. YouTube Franklin

Z-list meme, tertiary round

Picking up from my initial post, which added to Troy's post, there were additional links added to the second post. Since this is Tertiary Education, let's go for three times in this round for the Z-listing meme. Yes, there are more links added to this one. Long live the long tail! Creative Think Soloride Movie Marketing Madness Blog Till You Drop! Get Shouty! One Reader at a Time 100 Bloggers Critical Fluff The New PR Own Your Brand! OTOInsights bizandbuzz Work, in Plain English Buzz Canuck New Millenium PR Pardon My French The Instigator Blog AENDirect Diva Marketing Marketing Hipster The Marketing Minute Funny Business The Frager Factor Mindblob OrbitNow! Open The Dialogue Word Sell Note to CMO: That’s Great Marketing! Shotgun Marketing Blog BrandSizzle bizsolutionsplus Customers Rock! Being Peter Kim Andy Nulman Billions With Zero Knowledge Working at Home on the Internet MapleLeaf 2.0 Darren Barefoot Two Hat Marketing The Engaging Brand The Branding Blog CrapHammer Drew’s Marketing Minute Golden Practices Viaspire Tell Ten Friends Flooring the Consumer Kinetic Ideas Unconventional Thinking Buzzoodle Conversation Agent The Copywriting Maven Hee-Haw Marketing Scott Burkett’s Pothole on the Infobahn Multi-Cult Classics Logic + Emotion Branding & Marketing Carpe Factum Steve’s 2 Cents Simplicity Popcorn n Roses On Influence & Automation Servant of Chaos converstations eSoup Make it Great! Presentation Zen Dmitry Linkov aialone Urban Jacksonville John Wagner Nick Rice CKs Blog Design Sojourn Frozen Puck The Sartorialist Small Surfaces Africa Unchained Perspective gDiapers Marketing Nirvana Bob Sutton ¡Hola! Oi! Hi! Shut Up and Drink the Kool-Aid! 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The Game Makers

Sandra has a good posting on her blog about Building the Game Making Community. How do we play this “making the game” together game? is the central question she asks. Sandra, you have provided the tools (blog and wiki) and plenty of inspiration, now I think we need an objective. What game are we going to make? What are we going to try to accomplish with the game? Maybe the group will come up with multiple games to make. We can list them, prioritize them and get started with one. I think we should start simple. We'll learn as much together the first time through about ourselves as about the process itself. The second time, trying something a little more challenging in the game itself, will actually be easier because we'll be more able to work together. I'll put my thinking cap on to come up with a suggestion or two.