Archives for 2008

I’ve been doing some thinking about all the different digital communities I participate in on the web, so I thought I’d create a list of them. It’s not a short list.

Things I use the most:

• My blog (it’s an active community)
• Flickr
• Twitter (as I write this post, someone else just started following me on Twitter!)
• Facebook
• del.icio.us
• AIM (I’m squagmar on AIM)

Video stuff:

• My videoblog
• blip.tv (I store all my videos at blip – they rock)
• YouTube (sometimes I post video here too)
• justin.tv (experimenting with this – they call it “lifecasting” – but in web years I’m an oldie, so it’s really just a new, easy-to-use webcam service)

Podcasting services (mainly experiments):

• utterz (easy-to-use mobile service – done from my cell phone)
• talkshoe (used mainly for the LITA election podcasts – not sure what to do with it now)

Music stuff (you can find me singing and musiking in a few different places):

• last.fm (newest stuff goes here)
• SoundClick (first place I put music – and it’s still around!)
• SoundClick for my 80’s college band (we so rocked)
• PureVolume (I have 4 songs here – not really doing anything with it)

Other things I toy with:

• Pownce (just friend people who friend me here – really nothing else since I’m good with twitter)
• Plaxo (link to people who link to me, not much else)
• LinkedIn (mainly link to people who link to me)
• Skype (davidleeking on skype)
• Second Life (Daweed Quatro in Second Life)
• MySpace (recently been actively used with some college friends who have just “discovered the web” 🙂 )
• LibraryThing (I go on LibraryThing binges once in awhile…)

Seeing this list, some of you will have different reactions. Some of you might think “Dang, David – that’s WAY TOO MANY things to sign up for!” while others of you are probably thinking “slacker – get with the program!”

Either way, I’ll say this – if you want to fully understand how the emerging web works, you have to experience it. You have to sign up, friend people (the more the merrier), and PARTICIPATE. There’s no other way to really understand what’s going on and how you might use it personally or for your organization. Reading about it won’t give you a full grasp – it’s like reading about going to a major league ballgame vs. actually going to one – two very different experiences.

Closing Question – is there anything you use frequently that’s NOT on this list? What do you like about it? Something on this list you don’t use? Why?