Tag: community_indicators

Allegiance as an online community indicator

On Christmas eve, 2009, Josie Fraser (now at http://www.josiefraser.com/) Did a Twitter poll of 100 of her followers to see if, by following her, they had connected to her enough to have some sort of allegiance. I found this humorous AND fascinating, but clearly never got around to blogging about it. I kept the draft because it fit with the tag that I still love, Community Indicators. Community indicators are things that provide evidence of our connection and continuity through community interaction and engagement. What comes of these connections? Just compost, or growth?

Image of two mushrooms amongst compost with an additional mushroom piece fallen over.
The mushrooms and the compost

SocialTech: Twitter allegiance
I invited 100 of my 1,276 current Twitter followers to fill in a quick survey cunningly designed to provide a fairly wonky measure of community allegiance.

Josie’s folks clearly liked her then, back in the good old, kinder, smaller Twitter days. I wonder what would happen if you repeated your poll, Josie? (I’ll have to Tweet a link out with this!)

I often fondly think of the 7-10 people who still regularly read my blog. I would do many of the things Josie asked for you!!!

Happy Holidays

Obsidian Wings: Andy Olmsted

I had put a draft blog note to link to this amazing community indicator – a post created “in case I died” and posted by a friend on the blog of an US soldier in Iraq. There is much more to the story – the fact that Andy Olmstead has been blogging from Iraq, for a newspaper. But the humanity of the final post, the act of community in posting and responding to that post by friends and strangers, is what really took me. Take a peek. Obsidian Wings: Andy Olmsted by hilzoy (Andy’s friend who posted the final post.)

Andrew Olmsted, who also posted here as G’Kar, was killed yesterday in Iraq. Andy gave me a post to publish in the event of his death; the last revisions to it were made in July.