Community Divas

Welcome to episode eleven! Run time: 23:32 Community Divas on iTunes [http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=287954307] A podcast about communities and social media tools In this episode: - Eden interviews Ali de Bold from ChickAdvisor [http://www.halifaxpubliclibraries.ca/index.php] - We talk about Podcamp Halifax [http://podcamphalifax.ca/] - Introducing the Twitter Song [http://communitydivas.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=425957] by Michelle Yogis [http://twitter.com/myogis] - We have an addition to the community calendar Ali de Bold [http://www.chickadvisor.com/company/about] is a third-generation entrepreneur. In 2006, she and her husband Alex launched ChickAdvisor [http://www.chickadvisor.com/] as a solution for Ali’s constant search for the perfect hair salon. Since then it has become a thriving online community where women share reviews about their favourite stores, products and services. 00:01 Intro by Jay Moonah. 00:09 Eden Spodek and Connie Crosby. 00:15 Summary of this episode. 00:26 Eden introduces Ali de Bold 00:51 Eden welcomes Ali de Bold to Community Divas 01:00 Ali explains what ChickAdvisor is and how it got started 01:45 Ali and her husband Alex de Bold created ChickAdvisor 01:50Ali explains her role now. Mentioned: ChickChat TV [http://www.chickadvisor.com/videos.html] video series, their Product Review Club [http://www.chickadvisor.com/article/chickadvisor-product-review-club.html] and local events [http://www.chickadvisor.com/advertise/events.html] such as shop crawls and movie nights 03:05 Bridging on-line and off-line communities 03:31 Plans to expland off-line events to places outside of Toronto 04:21 Online community tends to take place in the forums and also the face to face events 04:59 Ali speaks about the geographic location of ChickAdvisor members 05:48 The product review club started when Ali started receiving a lot of products to review 07:02 How the product reviews are conducted 07:36 Eden and Ali discuss how advertisers feel about honest reviews by ChickAdvisor members, and how this builds credibility 08:24 Eden has been part of the product review club 08:44 How is ChickChat TV [http://www.chickadvisor.com/videos.html] enhancing ChickAdvisor? Mentioned: Where'd You Get That [http://www.slice.ca/slice/Dish/SliceBlog/BlogPost.aspx?sectionID=37&postID=10157], Slice [http://www.slice.ca/default.aspx], Rogers Media [http://www.rogers.com/] 10:23 Have community members been featured on ChickChat TV? 10:52 Are people watching episodes directly from the website? Mentioned: Rogers Pizza Pizza network; see also press release July 8, 2008 [http://press.chickadvisor.com/2008/07/chickchat-tv-chickadvisor-teams-up-with.html]11:19 Has ChickChat TV been driving traffic to the website? 11:39 Eden asks what the relationship is between the blog and the main site 12:41Recently launched re-design of ChickAdvisor to give it a more sophisticated look to better suit its demographic and make some things more user-friendly 13:24 Thoughts on building a community for women 14:09 How many people are using the site - currently just over 100,000 unique visits a month 14:35 Are site visitors staying loyal? 14:50 Keeping visitors on the site - all about the content Mentioned: Google Analytics [http://www.google.com/analytics/] 15:38ChickAdvisor plans for the future - movie night in February to see Shopaholic and shop crawl in April featuring Canadian designers 16:35 Eden wraps up the interview 16:38 Eden and Connie discuss Podcamp Halifax mentioned: Third Wednesday [http://thirdwednesday.eventbrite.com/] in Halifax (see also @thirdwednesday [http://twitter.com/thirdwednesday] on Twitter), Halifax Public Library [http://] 17:45 Connie was interested in how the sessions were held in the library 18:38 Michelle Yogis is someone who we met 19:05 The Twitter Song [http://communitydivas.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=425957] by Michelle Yogis [http://twitter.com/myogis] (thanks, Michelle!!) 21:12 Community Calendar - Podcamp London [http://podcamplondon.com/] has been added to the list 21:42 Eden wraps us up 22:00 Podcamp Toronto promo [http://podcamptoronto.wordpress.com/2009/02/06/podcamp-toronto-promo-prize-winners/] by John Meadows [http://blog.meadowsonline.com/] COMMUNITY CALENDAR: 1. Podcamp Toronto  - http://podcamptoronto.org/ [http://podcamptoronto.org/] - February 21 & 22, 2009 2. Mesh University (meshu) - http://www.meshu.ca/ [http://www.meshu.ca/ ] April 6, 2009 3. Mesh conference; - http://www.meshconference.com [http://www.meshconference.com] April 7 & 8, 2009 4. Podcamp London, London, ON, - http://podcamplondon.com/ [http://podcamplondon.com/] April 25, 2009 5. Podcasters Across Borders - Kingston, ON http://www.podcastersacrossborders.com/ [http://www.podcastersacrossborders.com/ ]June 19-21, 2009 Our cool theme music “Get Out of My Face [http://music.podshow.com/music/listeners/artistdetails.php?pageNum_MusicList=1&totalRows_MusicList=9&BandHash=1af351f49dff459ca7145da99285d1b2]” is by Uncle Seth [http://jaymoonah.com/] and is from the Podsafe Music Network [http://music.podshow.com/index.php]. We hope to hear from you! Send your comments to communitydivas@gmail.com [communitydivas@gmail.com] or post them on the blog at communitydivas.com [http://communitydivas.com/]. Follow us on Twitter [http://twitter.com/communitydivas], our Facebook page [http://www.new.facebook.com/home.php#/pages/Toronto-ON/Community-Divas/23439708058?ref=s] or our FriendFeed room [http://friendfeed.com/rooms/community-divas]. 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We’re at PodCamp Halifax today. Last night we met Michelle Yogis (aka @myogis [http://twitter.com/myogis]) at the pre-PodCamp Halifax Tweet-up. When she mentioned she wrote a song about Twitter we were intrigued. She gave us a copy and we’d like to share it with you. Cheers from PodCamp Halifax, Eden and Connie [http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/CommunityDivas/~4/Y0L92Ti4Io4][http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/CommunityDivas/~4/PgT-J5lQwyw][http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/CommunityDivas/~4/ioIZHWGbacE][http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/CommunityDivas/~4/Gl1_jW4wXH8][http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/CommunityDivas/~4/wTn6PiakQhI][http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/CommunityDivas/~4/UdWy5s60yNw][http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/CommunityDivas/~4/1IJ6dBoR7oI][http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/CommunityDivas/~4/cr_PigCwMqA][http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/CommunityDivas/~4/KkuzKV0gaO4][http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/CommunityDivas/~4/HewjQF07tzU][http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/CommunityDivas/~4/Jn2Gr-JtHKA][http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/CommunityDivas/~4/fW4fkURG2c8][http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/CommunityDivas/~4/v_wa2vW2g00][http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/CommunityDivas/~4/x6CFFyj05Uo][http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/CommunityDivas/~4/NVuDTsdv2QY][http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/CommunityDivas/~4/fYaCp_HvraM][http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/CommunityDivas/~4/1hBz7NJKhFM][http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/CommunityDivas/~4/Y7km_d3CDQ8][http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/CommunityDivas/~4/F6GhvZOjoZI][http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/CommunityDivas/~4/bmAXZ3f66A4][http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/CommunityDivas/~4/p68jYIvCQN0][http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/CommunityDivas/~4/_vRDrbEZ04M][http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/CommunityDivas/~4/x84Yy3B8q_g][http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/CommunityDivas/~4/Zu_xgoLQnXo][http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/CommunityDivas/~4/g2mrnbf-B4g]

Happy New Year & welcome to episode ten! Run time: 24:02 Community Divas on iTunes [http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=287954307] A podcast about communities and social media tools In this episode: - Connie interviews Dave Brodbeck about his podcasts - Eden has a question about community builders receiving swag for blogging - We update the community calendar We know Dave Brodbeck as a podcaster, but he is also Associate Professor and Chair in the Department of Psychology at Algoma University [http://www.auc.ca/] in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario [http://maps.google.ca/maps?q=sault+ste.+marie&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&um=1]. Algoma is considered to be one of Canada's northern universities. Dave podcasts at: www.thunderbirdsix.org [http://www.thunderbirdsix.org/], www.brocasarea.ca [http://www.brocasarea.ca/], people.auc.ca/brodbeck/blog [http://people.auc.ca/brodbeck/blog], tangentialconvergence.blogspot.com [http://tangentialconvergence.blogspot.com/], and whysciencepodcast.blogspot.com [http://whysciencepodcast.blogspot.com/]. 00:01 Intro by Jay Moonah. 00:09 Eden Spodek and Connie Crosby. 00:19 Summary of this rockin' episode. 00:45 Connie welcomes Dave Brodbeck to Community Divas. 00:58 Dave talks about his podcasts: Broca's Area [http://www.brocasarea.ca] which he does with his wife Isabelle (hi, Isabelle!). He also does Tangential Convergence [http://tangentialconvergence.blogspot.com] with his buddy, Algoma librarian Ken Hernden. Why [http://whysciencepodcast.blogspot.com] is a science podcast for kids. Thunderbird Six [http://www.thunderbirdsix.org] is an interview show which he does for the university, and he podcasts his psychology classes at people.auc.ca/brodbeck/blog [http://people.auc.ca/brodbeck/blog]. 02:31 Dave talks about how he got started podcasting his psych classes, who are listening to his classes, what the university's reaction is to his podcast. He mentions: East Meets West [http://www.subbrilliant.com/emw/] podcast. 06:40 Reaction of his students to having the lectures podcasted. 07:30 Dave talks about his science podcast for kids, Why [http://whysciencepodcast.blogspot.com].  He mentions: K7 [http://www.k7.net/] numbers, Scholastic Magazine [http://www.nd.edu/~scholast/]. 10:24 Who have been inspired by Dave's podcasts? He mentions: Podcastra (now defunct), his presentation at Podcasters Across Borders 2008 [http://www.canadianpodcastbuffet.ca/?s=brodbeck] (a must-listen!) 12:27 Dave riffs on the benefits of the podcaster community. He mentions: Scarborough Dude who does the dicksnjanes podcast [http://www.dicksnjanes.blogspot.com/], Tom Merritt [http://www.tommerritt.com/] of CNet [http://reviews.cnet.com/buzz-out-loud-podcast/], Real Deal [http://www.cnet.com/real-deal-podcast/] podcast. 14:10Eden has a question about community builders receiving swag for blogging. The question arises following Chris Brogan [http://www.chrisbrogan.com/about/]'s recent blogging on Dad-o-matic [http://dadomatic.com/] in which he received money to spend at K-Mart (that blog post is here [http://dadomatic.com/sponsored-post-kmart-holiday-shopping-dad-style/]). Should someone known for community building be accepting gifts for the purposes of blogging? Eden has done similar things to try out products for her personal blog Bargainista.ca [http://bargainista.blogspot.com/]. Connie has only received books that people have hoped she would blog about on her law librarian bloghttp://conniecrosby.blogspot.com [http://conniecrosby.blogspot.com]. Where is the line? How does one maintain balance? How do you maintain the trust of your readership? Eden and Connie mention: Ford Flex [http://bargainista.blogspot.com/2008/09/flex-time.html] posts, Bargainista post on post on TaB energy drinks [http://bargainista.blogspot.com/2007/06/tab-energy-falls-flat.html], a Molson beer tasting event [http://bargainista.blogspot.com/2008/06/tip-of-week-serving-beer-right-way.html].  We are interested in your opinion!  See also Chris Brogan's blog post Advertising and Trust [http://www.chrisbrogan.com/advertising-and-trust/]. 22:26 Community calendar. Please feel free to send us your events to add to the calendar! 23:10 Eden winds up the episode. Community calendar: 1. Podcamp Halifax -http://podcamphalifax.ca/ [http://podcamphalifax.ca/] - Halifax, NS, January 25, 2009 2. Podcamp Toronto - http://podcamptoronto.org/ [http://podcamptoronto.org/] - Toronto, ON, February 21 & 22, 2009 3. Mesh conference Apr 7 &8  - http://www.meshconference.com [http://www.meshconference.com/] - Toronto, ON, April 7 & 8, 2009 4. Podcasters Across Borders - http://www.podcastersacrossborders.com/ [http://www.podcastersacrossborders.com/] - Kingston, ON, June 19-21, 2009 Our cool theme music “Get Out of My Face [http://music.podshow.com/music/listeners/artistdetails.php?pageNum_MusicList=1&totalRows_MusicList=9&BandHash=1af351f49dff459ca7145da99285d1b2]” is by Uncle Seth [http://jaymoonah.com/] and is from the Podsafe Music Network [http://music.podshow.com/index.php]. We hope to hear from you! Send your comments to communitydivas@gmail.com [communitydivas@gmail.com] or post them on the blog at communitydivas.com [http://communitydivas.com/]. Follow us on Twitter [http://twitter.com/communitydivas], our Facebook page [http://www.new.facebook.com/home.php#/pages/Toronto-ON/Community-Divas/23439708058?ref=s] or our FriendFeed room [http://friendfeed.com/rooms/community-divas]. Some registration may be required. Photo credit: Bob Goyetche [http://www.flickr.com/photos/bobandaj/2613377564/] (made available under Creative Commons). 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Welcome to episode nine! Run time: 16:02 Community Divas on iTunes [http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=287954307] A podcast about communities and social media tools In this episode: - Eden interviews Amrita Chandra of tinku gallery [http://www.tinkugallery.com] - We talk about community building events - Have a bit of a community calendar Amrita Chandra is the Founder of tinku gallery, a contemporary art gallery in Toronto, representing emerging and mid-career artists from across Canada and the U.S.Her website is http://www.tinkugallery.com/ [http://www.tinkugallery.com/] and she blogs at http://tinkutales.blogspot.com/ [http://tinkutales.blogspot.com/]. 00:01 Intro by Jay Moonah 00:09 Eden Spodek and Connie Crosby 00:15 Summary of today’s episode 00:36 Eden welcomes Amrita Chandra. 00:44 Where did the idea of tinku gallery [http://www.tinkugallery.com/] in Toronto came from? 01:31 Why is community building important to the success of an art gallery? 02:19 Building relationships with customers and artists. Amrita talks about the blog she created to start. 03:08 Other online tools she is using: Twitter [http://twitter.com/tinkugallery] and Facebook [http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/pages/Toronto-ON/tinku-gallery/13627640903]. She has found that Twitter and the blog have been the best tools for building community. 04:00 On Facebook she started with ads and a page [http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/pages/Toronto-ON/tinku-gallery/13627640903]. 04:45 How long did it take to build awareness for the gallery? 05:22 Word of mouth has been important to her. 05:35 Comparing on-line and off-line community building, she has found them to be similar. With on-line she has been able to reach people further afield geographically. 06:24 She has not seen a lot of commercial art galleries doing this kind of community building yet. 06:57 She has learned from the past that you need to be yourself, you need to be authentic.  You also need to be a very good listener. People who are listened to and given a voice tend to have the most engagement. 07:53 Her plans for the future: using the gallery to still make art accessible to those who would like to purchase it; holding more salon type events at the gallery in which people can talk, making it a focal point for the neighbourhood. 08:48 Eden winds up the interview 08:59 Eden and Connie discuss using face-to-face events to reinforce online communities.  Eden uses HoHoTO, a party created by the mesh guys [http://www.meshconference.com/about/] which is also being used as a fundraiser for the Daily Bread Foodbank, [http://www.dailybread.ca/] as an example (see the HoHoTO Facebook page [http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/event.php?eid=43069985982]).  Eden mentions Viigo [http://www.viigo.com/home] as one office using it as their annual seasonal party. Connie talks about a question that came up at Sustainability Camp [http://www.sustainabilitycamp.org/], whether on-line social networking tools can replace in-person interaction. 14:13 Community calendar 15:07 We would like to hear how you are keeping connected between events. 15:17 Eden winds up the episode. Community calendar: 1. HoHoTo [http://hohoto.eventbrite.com/] - Toronto - Dec. 15 , The Mod Club 7 p.m. 2. Podcamp Halifax - http://podcamphalifax.ca/ [http://podcamphalifax.ca/] - January 25, 2009 3. Podcamp Toronto - http://podcamptoronto.org/ [http://podcamptoronto.org/] - February 21 & 22, 2009 4. Mesh conference Apr 7 &8  - http://www.meshconference.com [http://www.meshconference.com] - April 7 & 8, 2009. Our cool theme music “Get Out of My Face [http://music.podshow.com/music/listeners/artistdetails.php?pageNum_MusicList=1&totalRows_MusicList=9&BandHash=1af351f49dff459ca7145da99285d1b2]” is by Uncle Seth [http://jaymoonah.com/] and is from the Podsafe Music Network [http://music.podshow.com/index.php]. We hope to hear from you! Send your comments to communitydivas@gmail.com [communitydivas@gmail.com] or post them on the blog at communitydivas.com [http://communitydivas.com/]. Follow us on Twitter [http://twitter.com/communitydivas], our Facebook page [http://www.new.facebook.com/home.php#/pages/Toronto-ON/Community-Divas/23439708058?ref=s] or our FriendFeed room [http://friendfeed.com/rooms/community-divas]. Some registration may be required. 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Sun, 23 November 2008 Episode 8: Simon Chen and Melany Gallant of Ramius Corporation [http://] discuss Ramius' web-based community platform: Sixent [http://sixent.com]. Welcome to episode eight! Run time: 15:29 Community Divas on iTunes [http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=287954307] A podcast about communities and social media tools In this episode: - Connie interviews Simon Chen [http://simon.sixent.com] and Melany Gallant [http://melgallant.sixent.com] about Ramius Corporation [http:///www.ramius.net]’s web-based community platform: Sixent [http://sixent.com]. - We talk about Sustainability Camp [http://suscamp.wikidot.com] - Community calendar Simon Chen is a consultant and Melany Gallant is the director of marketing for Ramius Corporation [http://www.ramius.net], a firm based in Ottawa, Ontario. Ramius designs and develops online social technologies and is perhaps best known for CommunityZero [http://www.communityzero.com], an online community platform. Most recently, they launched an beta test for Sixent, a social networking platform. 00:01 Intro by Jay Moonah 00:09 Eden Spodek and Connie Crosby 00:15 Summary of today’s episode 00:50 Connie welcomes Simon and Melany and asks them to explain their roles at Ramius Corporation. 01:04 Simon explains his role at Ramius and how it’s grown over the past six years. The current focus is helping clients build online communities. 01:47 Melany explains how she helps market Ramius’ web applications and expertise to consumer side and on the enterprise side. The current focus is similar to Simon’s with respect to Sixent and building relationships. 02:16 What does Ramius Corporation do? Simon and Melany explain that Ramius is a developer of online community platforms including CommunityZero and Sixent. They go on to describe Sixent. 05:30 Simon explains how they are using feedback from the community of Sixent’s beta users to help them bring Sixent to market. 05:59 What is a white-label network? Simon explains how companies can customize and brand Sixent social networks for use inside their organizations and behind their firewalls. He compares it to brining features from Facebook and MySpace inside the organization. 07:21 What types of organizations are interested in bringing these types of features inside? Some organizations want to freshen up their existing use of technology. Others are looking to see what they can do with these systems to improve current processes. Simon shares examples of how companies, associations, colleges and universities might use online communities to engage with stakeholders and members. 11:43 How does Sixent compete with other white-label community applications and what makes it distinct? The hope is that Sixent and white-label communities will overlap in the future. 12:59 Wrapping up the interview. 13:10 Community Divas presentation at Sustainability Camp [http://suscamp.wikidot.com], November 16, 2008, organized by Tamera Kremer [http://3i.wildfirestrategy.com/], listeners are invited to visit our presentation wiki [http://communitydivas.wetpaint.com] 13:34 Community calendar: Podcamp Halifax [http://podcamphalifax.ca], January, 25, 2009 - Craig and Ryan - interview on Canadian Podcast Buffet [http://www.canadianpodcastbuffet.ca/?p=242] Podcamp Toronto [http://podcamptoronto.org], Feb. 21 & 22, 2009 Mesh conference [http://www.meshconference.com], Apr . 7 &8, 2009 14:44 Connie and Eden wrap up the episode. 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