Der Leberkäse hat, so viel ich weiß, keine Großmutter. Er muss sich also keine Gedanken darüber machen, ob er sein drittklassiges Lustspiel als Sprachrohr für sie missbrauchen soll. Der Leberkäse braucht sich in weiterer Folge auch gar nicht zu irreführenden Hirnwichsereien bezüglich seiner möglichen Nebenberufung als meinungsflexible Medienhure verleiten lassen. Er ist einfach der Leberkäse. Tag ein, Tag aus. Akt ein, Akt aus. 
Der 17. Akt ist meiner geliebten Großmutter gewidmet. Viel Spaß! 

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Charity Veranstaltung in Bayern/Ulm

Ein Benefiz Konzert für krebskranke Kinder

Radiosender Feelgood aus Bayern veranstaltet am 27.November.2009 eine Charity Veranstaltung mit vielen Stars aus der Showbranche. Der Reinerlös der Charity geht an den “Förderkreis für tumor- und leukämiekranke Kinder Ulm e.V

“King of Rock’n Roll” trifft auf “King of Pop”

Mein Kollege und Elvis Imitator Leo Bishof, bekannt aus Funk und Fernsehen, wird in altbekannter Marnier die Bühne rocken, wenn es heißt: “Elvis forever”.

Ein weiterer Höhepunkt der Charity Veranstaltung ist das Michael Jackson Double Sascha Pazdera. Ereben sie ein Spektakel der Superlative bei dem Live Act, der den “King of Pop” atemberaubend nah bringt.

Des weiteren werden bei dem Benefiz Konzert in Bayern Künstler wie, Bettina Ratschew ( ARD Sendung Rote Rosen ), Mariane Kappler-Rohde ( Top Model aus den USA ), sowie als Moderatoren: Jill Löfka ( Popstars Pro7 und Radio Hamburg), und Nils Bonometti ( Der Eistester von SAT1) erwartet. Das Konzert der Charity findet ab 19 Uhr im Edwin Scharff Haus, Silcherstraße 40, 89231 Neu Ulm, statt.

Weitere Infos finden sie auch auf: http://www.baffy-scorpion.de/index.php/radiosender-bayern-ulm-online

Seperti yang sudah saya ceritakan sebelumnya, beberapa hari yang lalu saya ikutan pembekelan alumni yang diadakan oleh universitas tempat saya menuntut ilmu. Di seminar itu ada tiga sesi dengan tema yang berbeda. Nah, tiap sesi dibawakan oleh moderator yang berbeda pula. Trus di sesi yang kedua, moderatornya kacau banget, bener-bener bikin emosi para hadirin. Jadi gini ceritanya.

Saat itu moderator sudah menyerahkan waktu sepenuhnya kepada pembicara. Pembicaranya keren, menggebu-gebu, suka becanda juga. Seharusnya saat itu acara adalah milik pembicara, tentunya sampai waktu yang sudah ditentukan. Tapi saat itu moderator malah ikut-ikutan nimbrung. Nyeletuk-nyeletuk ga jelas dan sangat mengganggu jalannya pemberian materi. Widih, parah banget dah, bener-bener bikin gatel telinga!

Tadinya saya kira cuma saya aja yang emosi. Eh ternyata hadirin yang laen juga begitu. Temen sebelah saya juga. Jadi setiap kali moderator ngeluarin celetukannya, para hadirin langsung riuh, nyuruh moderator diem. Tentunya dgn bahasa isyarat. Tapi kayaknya si moderator itu ga ngerti-ngerti juga. Abis sampai akhir sesi itu pun, dia masih tetep rajin ngeluarin celetukannya. Uuggh… jadi ga konsen nyimak materi deh…

Saya bingung. Dari segi ketepatan nada bicara dan intonasi, mbak moderator itu sepertinya sudah ahli membawakan acara. Suaranya enak didengar, setiap perkataannya jelas, trus artikulasinya juga bagus. Tapi kok dia bisa sebegitu menjengkelkannya ya… Apakah dia ga tau kalo moderator seharusnya ga ikut campur saat pembicara menyampaikan materi?

Dari seluruh seminar yang saya ikuti selama ini, saya juga baru kali itu melihat moderator yang langsung ikut nimbrung dan kerap nyeletuk-neyeletuk saat pembicara menyampaikan materi.

Tapi sebenarnya yg bener itu bagaimana sih? Soalnya saya juga ga tau etika moderator itu bagaimana dan seperti apa. Juga kurang tau moderator yang baik dan benar itu bagaimana. Yang jelas sih, sikap dan tingkah laku dari moderator yang lagi saya ceritakan ini begitu menjengkelkan, bikin kuping gatal. Dan ternyata tidak hanya bagi saya saja, tapi juga bagi para hadirin lainnya.

Pernah ngalamin hal yang serupa? Kalo iya ayo deh boleh share di sini, hehe…

Hey guys, Today I was on the wiki and saw this on one of the Mod’s pages:

I think they did a great job designing, it’s very original:

The Moderators must feel so special that they got there own badge, like a… Terminator! LOL. Also, I have some cool exclusive info for you this weekend. Keep checking back for news and updates for WW!

-Muffin

Hey guys, Today I was on the wiki and saw this on one of the Mod’s pages:

I think they did a great job designing, it’s very original:

 The Moderators must feel so special that they got there own badge, like a… Terminator! LOL. Also, I have some cool exclusive info for you this weekend. Keep checking back for news and updates for WW!

-Muffin

Since plenty of people have been joining HikiCulture on a daily basis, I felt it was due time to have a new mod around.

I've made the user Dreaming a HikiCulture mod. She's been around since HC was young, and I can put my trust in her.

Me and the other staff-members would have started having difficulty keeping up with all of the new posts, so it was definitely time to have a new staff-member around.

(*NOTE* if you like my blog and this post, please share links to them on Twitter, FaceBook, Reddit, StumbleUpon, Mixx etc. )

Posted via email from HikiCulture – A Forum For Reclusive People (and Hikikomori)

Were having a mod hunt so we will get a chance to spot and meet the mods of Webosaurs =).

for more info concerning the text above read below:

sasuke-xth- is now DotSIS Moderator on Our 8th Monthsary
http://www.dotsis.com/mobile_phone/showthread.php?t=190127

Rev James Gibb in his Moderatorial Regalia

Mr. George Dawson of Southland does not like the fine robes in which the Moderator [James Gibb] was attired.  He wished to call for a discussion on the subject from the floor of the Assembly. The Fathers and Brethren in attendance did not agree and said so amidst much banter and applause.

The legitimacy of the motion received vigourous debate and eventually Mr. Dawson received permission to put forward his motion and he moved that the dress worn by the Moderator at this Assembly be dispensed with in the future.  The Rev. Mackenzie rose asking if  ”it is competent for this Assembly to state what a man shall wear.”   The Rev. Andrew Cameron went as far as to say, amidst ‘Oh’ and ‘No you wouldn’t', that he would defy any Assembly as to what dress he would wear.  Applause greeted the Rev. William Hewitson when he stated that it did not help the dignity of the Assembly to be debating the issue at all.  Proof of feeling was soon acknowledged when a ‘small minority only’ voted in favour of the motion. They agreed unanimously, however, that no notice be taken of the matter in the recorded minutes of the meeting, as it was such a complicated business.    The Moderator, on returning to the chamber, thanked the Commissioners for their respectful consideration.

All in all the issue was an affront to the lady members of First Church, Dunedin, who spent many months planning and raising the necessary funds to have an attire fit for the honour to be bestowed upon their minister.  Mrs A. W. Morris when handing the official robes over to Dr. Gibb noted they were a mark of the highest estimation in which they all held him. She emphasized also that the robes were commemorative of his untiring efforts on behalf of church union of which they were about to participate in.

 It would have been churlish of Dr. Gibb to decline the gift in the circumstances. We hope that Mr. Dawson will wax no more on the subject and humbly recognise the good intentions of the ladies.

No doubt the kerfuffle created much amusement to many at the Assembly and beyond.  Fortunately the Otago Witness of 13 November 1901, reported the goings on in some detail as true to word, the incident was not recorded in the General Assembly Minutes.  The General Assembly was the first Assembly of the united Northern Presbyterian Church and the Presbyterian Church of the Synod of Otago and Southland. The Rev. James Gibb was the first Moderator of the United Church.

Hiya Pandas!  This weekend is going to be HUGE!!!  First off Pandanda Squad is having a party(Generation Party-meaning the real launch of Pandanda) at 2:00 EST on Sunday!  Here is the invitation:

I hope you all can make it to the party, it’s going to be lots of fun!

Also, Primary Games is having a big party Saturday!!  So you guys get to party 2 days in a row!   Here is their party info:

I wonder what the special gift will be!?  I’ll post the location and time when they release the info   I’m excited for this weekend, I hope you guys are too!!

- Emerica

Und zwar auf Sputnik.
Die waren nämlich in der Mensa an unserer Uni. In Jena herrscht momentan totales Wohnungschaos. Die Uni hat dieses Semester 5000 neue Studenten immatrikuliert (hört sich schlimm an, heißt aber nur, dass 5000 neue Gesichter über den Campus laufen), und leider wurde nicht daran gedacht, dass Jena in ganz Deutschland neben München den zweit geringsten Wohnungsleerstand hat.
Also haben natürlich nicht alle neuen Studenten eine Wohnung in Los Jenas bekommen.

Und deswegen wollte Radio Sputnik einige Studenten dazu befragen.
Der Manu und ich waren zufällig nun grad zum Essen in der Mensa, und da wollten wir natürlich auch ordentlich Kulis von Radio Sputnik abstauben (Wir haben versucht sie ganz lang mit Mathe-pseudo-intellektuellem-Zeugs vollzuquatschen, doch sie waren imun).
Resultat war, dass wir uns zu einem Live-Interview im Radio hinreißen liesen. (Natürlich waren wir voll lässig)

Moderator: “Ich habe gerade den besten Satz über das Mathematikstudium gehört: Mathematik ist interessant, aber abartig. Und von wem könnte dieses Zitat stammen, wenn nicht von zwei Mathestudenten, nämlich der Manu und der Cauti.”
Ma&C: “Tach auch.”

Mo: “In Jena ist ja grad voll der krasse Wohnungsleerstand. Wie habt ihr denn in eurer WG das Zimmer vergeben, Cauti?”
C: “Wir haben den von mir selbst konzipierten Smiley-Test durchgeführt.”

Mo: “Ja absolut. Wie geht denn der Smiley-Test?”
C: “Die Aufgabe war, neben Name und Adresse, den schönsten Smiley wo gibbet auf einen Notizzettel zu kritzeln.”

Mo:”Wow indeed. Und wer hat das Zimmer dann bekommen?”
C: “Es waren sogar n+1 für n=1 Zimmer. Und zwei Mädels haben diese bekommen.”

Mo:”Ja warum wundert mich das jetzt gar nicht?”
C:”Weiß nich? Warum?”

Mo:”Und wie war das bei dir, der Manu? Wie viele musstet ihr euch anschauen, ehe ihr euch entschieden hattet?”
Ma:”n <= 10″

Mo:”Und das wurde wurde dann natürlich nach Sauberkeit und Anstandt ausgewählt, und nicht nach anderen Eigenschaften?”
Ma:”Eigenwerten? Hä?”

Mo:”Ihr seid ja beide, wie die Mädels wohl sagen würden, richtige Schnuckelchen. Seid ihr beide denn noch zu haben?”
C&Ma unisono: “Nö.”

Mo:”Das tut mir leid für die Frauen, aber vielleicht tanzt ihr ja zu solcher Musik auch gern.”

Hier spielte der Mo Musik ein. Also sowas was für ihn Musik war. Für uns nich, wir hören Musik. Also für uns. Für ihn nicht.
Er fragte, ob wir zu solch Musik auch tanzen würden. Wir antworteteten diplomatisch “Fallunterscheidung”, aber wie ein guter Moderator nunmal so ist, ließ er sich davon nicht abbringen.

Dann waren wir erlöst, ein Lächeln spielte uns um die Lippen und wir gingen essen. Und wir waren ganz cool…

Hey Guys,

Today the new login screen(s) have been released, so make sure you go check that out!

Also, everyone who has an account has received 1,000 StickBucks!

Soon, you will be able to buy cool items for your Stick Figure with StickBucks!

That’s all for now, I’ll see you guys later!

~Hygt5
Stick World Team

I have been publishing a Web site for 14 years. By all accounts, its a great success. There are 2 primary reasons why people come to this site. One is a meticulously researched database of Traditional Song Lyrics that was collected by a wonderful man over a 40 year period. This list was never published in the Library of Congress, or ever even in print. Instead, this list was given to me in 1995 because I was the only one willing to put it on the Internet. Intellectual property law was still being hammered out and some Oracle apparently told the publishing companies that the Internet would be the death of printed material.

A fan of Trad and giant nerd had it previously hosted it on a Xerox Parc (the Willy Wonka Factory of Technology) server but shut it down at the first threat from a publishing company’s lawyer.

I was 24 years old, and was running a business out of the master bedroom of my 2 bedroom apartment, and I had a BA in Philosophy. I had nothing, I thought, so I had nothing to lose.

Sure I was threatened often, but when explained who I was, what I had in the bank, and what I intended to do, they would eventually stop calling. I was officially sued three times. All three times, I was able to have them drop the suites without leaving my bedroom, I mean office, over the telephone. I took interest in the emerging evolution of intellectual property law, and since is was just being born as we now know it, I became somewhat of an expert at it. The combination of my layman’s knowledge of copyright law and my understanding of technology has kept me off their radar ever since.

The other things the site contains is a Discussion Forum. Interactivity in 1996 was unique, an early implementation of Web 2.0 to be sure. Other features were quickly added, notably a membership, private messaging, bookmarking, all the things to turn this site into a community. It’s grown at a fairly even rate and today have 75.000 members that have made 3.2 million comments on 80,000 topics and 15,000 songs. The server sits beneath me as I sit here typing, a hum that’s been with me longer than 2 wives could stand it (or me). It’s paid for by donations, Google Ads, and Amazon commissions. If I tried just a little bit harder, I am fairly certain I could make some more significant income but only at the expense of my time.

So, for 13 years, we’ve had a very focused existence. Traditional music enthusiasts, historians, professional musicians and passerby’s looking for words to a song their grandma used to sing. I always let non-members read and post, I still hate sites that make you register to get to the good stuff. Membership grew, but old members stayed. Over the years, we gathered and traveled and got t-shirts made so we could find other members at folk festivals around the world. There are 5 festivals around the world that you could go to in one year and meet damn near all of them.

So we had a pretty tight, somewhat closed society, and it’s been that way for 13 years… until yesterday.

At 2am EST, I surreptitiously added what most of us are used to by now, a SHARE button on conversations and songs. Half our membership is in the UK and Europe, so they were all about to wake up. Sure enough, it wasn’t 6 hours before they noticed it, began discussing it, began fearing it, and by 10am our members were convinced that this was the end of our community.

The Old Time Music demographic, in the US and UK, is somewhat similar to the rural Pennsylvania farmer. They use computers for email and casual browsing, weather, news, maybe even shopping, but Facebook… Twitter? “Aren’t those large capitalistic corporations interested only in our dollar? Aren’t they full of perverts and stalkers, flamers and trolls? Won’t our nice little community be infiltrated by all those people and tear us apart (disagree with our opinions)? You’ve made a terrible mistake!”

I found the discussion fascinating. Lots of doom and gloom, lots of fear, lots of misinformation and general ignorance to what social networking was. Not to mention the conceptual lapse that it was they, the members, who had the choice to share or not share and to whom they shared it with. You would link that they would share things they were interested in with people they thought would also be interested in, ergo, people like us.

The discovery and discussion appears here: http://www.mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=124896

After letting them vent for about a day, I posted a very long, very grandiose (as I am known for) explanation. I said:

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This is all very fascinating. A few quick points:

I’m seeing a lot of fear here.

I’m seeing a lot of comments from people who know not of what they speak, but speak as if they do.

I’m seeing people that have known me, personally for many years, not trusting my intent or my knowledge of these things.

Now, I can only speak of what I believe, what I believe in, and how I choose to spend my time and energy. I know and you know how I get and talk (grandiose philosophical waxing) when I post in threads like this, and this one is going to set records, so skip to the last paragraph where I summarize or hold on, cause here it goes:

Today’s Opus is: Trust me. (and we’re taking the long route so buckle in)

Lets assume for a moment that mudcat is good. When I think about mudcat, I am really thinking about Folk. I make my decisions about what I want to do to mudcat as to how it affects Folk. I believe in Folk and I have dedicated much of my adult life, one way or another, working for Folk. Why? I believe that history is the story of the rich white man. I believe that Folk is the story of the rest of us. Folk is all of us, of which I am but one. All of us.

Mudcat came alive when the forum was added. That was also the moment, that I was no longer in control of what it contained. The songs in the DigiTrad were no longer static, indisputable and authoritative. In 1996, discussion forums, or interactivity for that matter, were a new and scary rarity.

This is also the moment that I became truly interested in what I was doing here.

I am interested in how tradition travels through generations, across borders, between communities and families. Tradition is existential, in that we make them, decide what they mean and choose whether they are important to us. Tradition comes from people yet they become so sacred that we suspend belief and stop questioning their origins and make them divine. Some feel digging into them destroys them, and some, like me, think that that is precisely what makes them beautiful and powerful, that fact that they come from men and women just like us and were found meaningful enough to stand the test of time.

People complained then, and still complain now, that the forum should never have been associated with the DigiTrad (song database). Dick Greenhaus, however, (at least then) felt differently, and it was his interest that made him put all that work into collecting those songs. I have never stopped feeling honored that he trusted me with his decades of dedication. The fact that FSGW, albeit cautiously, welcomed me and our members to their gatherings, gave me that same feeling.

You may believe something different, and I am sure this thread will continue such that every one of my points here will be negated, debated and refuted, the point remains that it is my interest that keeps this site running. It’s my interest that created this site, this community. It’s my interest that makes me wake up at 4am when I get a text message to reboot the server. It’s my interest that I stay up late and backup the database in the middle of the night. It’s my interest to spend the time pondering changes, innovation and growth. It’s my interest to take the time to write this lengthy post.

I created mudcat for reasons and purposes that are still present, but not necessarily the only things it is anymore. My interests were Preservation, Research and Connection. That’s all.

I wanted to know the words to a Leadbelly song.

I wanted to know what kind of strings he used on his guitar.

I wanted to know someone that was as excited as I was when they released his Last Sessions CD and wanted to talk about it.

I wanted to meet people, that wouldn’t think I was crazy, to sing the response to my calls while performing a Leadbelly field holler.

This 24 year old kid couldn’t find any of those things in Downingtown, Pennsylvania in 1996.

I founded and began managing an online community 13 years ago. Social Networking that we are seeing and hearing so much about these days, is them (corporations) trying to do what we did here at mudcat without the focus of a particular interest with the goal of making money. We have Folk to bind us and money is not why I do this. Interest is why I do this. And having done this for so long, I am an expert at it. While some of you feel that I do a terrible job that is a detriment to Folk, I, and a few others, view it as a success to have not self destructed and that we continue to exist at all.

Think for a moment about the challenge. We’re global. How many different cultures are we dealing with? The Internet, and mudcat, provides anonymity which opens the door for misbehavior and lacks accountability (but also happens to be a form of freedom). We have only words on a page, no body language, no eyes to look into, no empathy for other words on a page. The Internet is besieged with flamers and trolls, stalkers, spammers, nihilists and anarchists who hide behind all the things that I provide. Yet we’ve not yet self destructed. But sadly, many of my friends that kept my interest have left, which saddens me to no end and we are waning, in my opinion, which is why I ponder and why I tinker.

I mentioned the FSGW above and will speak of them again, only because they are another Folk organization like us, that I have enormous respect for their organization, and that I happen to know many of its mothers, fathers and caretakers.

The FSGW was waning once too, and perhaps thought that inviting me and my mudcatters would either infuse them, destroy them or change it into something they themselves were no longer interested in. How did it turn out? I don’t know, but it seems like a case study in what happens when you try to add to the folk organization gene pool.

Sadly, the rolling river that has been my personal life has kept me from bathing in the loving embrace of that group of profoundly wonderful people for years now. I feel the regret that many sons must feel when their fathers pass and they didn’t get to see them one last time. Sandy and Barry were my friends and mentors and I needed to tell them what they meant to me, ask them why they do what they do and what I should do, one more time before they passed. Now I look up and only talk, for they have no more answers for me.

I look at many of you still, for that wisdom as caretakers of Folk. The highest of integrity and thoughtfulness of Dick Greenhaus, Dick Swain, Bill D & Rita, Nancy King (and her offspring), Art Theme, Kendall, and many many more… as well as the extreme views of gargoyle, Joe Offer and a healthy percentage of our UK base. When you get down to it, its the collective of which I am but one member that guides my two hands. I stay grounded in my thinking (not getting angry and pulling the plug, not getting hurt when criticized or attacked, not getting too self important when feeling proud, not feeling a failure when our community is degraded with bigotry, dogma, sociopathy, personal attack and plain old BS), I remind myself that all of you also have two hands.

The problems we have here are the same problems that the world is having. Some of you look to me or Joe or Vols to solve them. We don’t have that kind of wisdom, power or influence, nor do the leaders of our nations to solve the world’s. We have to solve them together. Along with my two hands, I also have a plowshare (or sword) which is technology. I feel like I’ve done pretty damn good with it so far, so I’m always a bit surprised and disappointed when my changes or proposals are met with such disagreement. And you may be absolutely right, I can’t argue, because with innovation comes uncertainty. I am merely making an experienced and well educated guess as to what’s ahead. A wise man once told me, “If you don’t make mistakes once in a while, you are clearly not trying hard enough”.

So what am I trying exactly? Fair question.

I am trying to stay interested, for one. I’m trying to maintain a community that I want to be a part of. I’m trying to return to my 3 founding principles. Our community now suffers because the social aspects of our community have weekend our binding, our founding principles, Preservation, Research, Connection.

Connection is the dangerous one. I’ll bet I get 10,000 emails per year. Just to ballpark their nature, I’d say 10% thanking me for some piece of information they found, 10% providing additional information, 20% asking me for more information, 5% threatening to sue me, 10% asking me to referee a fight, 5% (eg) asking me to look at a chat log from 3 years ago to settle an argument that is a matter of life or death, and 40% thanking me for being the means in which they’ve found a new club, venue, gathering, festival, new friends and even husbands and wives. So while it may be the problem child, it is making the biggest emotional impact on our community members, myself included.

I never could go to members-only posting, though it’s been pushed on me from all sides for years. Why do I not waver on this point?

Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these — the homeless, tempest-tossed — to me;
I lift my lamp beside the Golden Door.

(not exactly)

I felt very alone in 1996. For some reason I had a passion for something that my peers had no interest in. (It was that damn Folk Box that my dad had that did it to me) And I know for a fact, from 40% of 13 years worth of emails (50,000) that many of you were lonely too.

Earlier this year I moved to a new town where I didn’t know a soul, in the loneliest and saddest time of my life. The 2nd night here I went to a song circle at a local church, and made 30 new friends, many of whom knew about mudcat. Not a bad social lubrication for new introductions. If it works for members, imagine what it does for the founder. Mudcat had nothing to do with that song circle being there. It was Folk that did something for me that night, this life. [posted about it here: http://bit.ly/Pinehall]

So there is my defense of Connection, I guess. We are connected already, and the fear that I see is that those connections will be threatened or changed in some way. But I think not of us, I think about the lonely or thirsty (for knowledge) yearning for a connection who have not met us yet. An argument is being made to close the gates and I find that to be selfish. Even though I could bask in the glow of y’all blowing sunshine up my ass from the confines of my virtual castle.

I believe that technology can make us more accessible while broadening our benefits. The strength of the community, and its various factions, has outgrown my ability to influence its behavior, so I’ll use technology to filter it rather than moderate it. I will invent tools so that users can create their own filters so that they can get out of mudcat exactly what they want. Then what would there be to complain about?

And as for these words being saved forever, gargoyle is very right. The internet has always been and will always be that way. And all of life is becoming that way with cellular phones, smart keys, surveillance cameras, credit histories… Welcome to the 21st century. I’ll address this issue, my stance and my suggestions with a quote from Thomas Fuller: “Govern thy life and thoughts as if the whole world were to see the one, and read the other.”

So in summary, 1) Trust me, I wouldn’t let anything ruin mudcat because 2) I believe, passionately, in Folk. 3) Innovation was a cornerstone to mudcat becoming anything in the first place and I believe that it shall continue to serve us well because 4) I am very good at this. 5) Change must come from all of us. I’ve been trying to make this point for years, so maybe there needs to be 6) more us. 7) By sharing things we find interesting from our community we are most likely to attract more folks like us. 8 ) I am using technology and tinkering because 9) there is too much BS and needless needling that interferes with Research, and I am displeased at our inbred dogma, bored with the same old fights, and missing some friends that have left, which all make me 9) less interested. 10) If I am not interested in mudcat, mudcat does not exist. (how is that for existentialism?)

(I warned you)
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I posted this an hour ago, and since, 2 messages have been posted. One saying “good for you” and another saying “why should we try to be a social networking site”…

Being the benevolent dictator of an online community for 13 years, and a social media marketing professional for 8 years, I find this all very personally and professionally interesting, proving only that I am a giant nerd.

The definition is still up for grabs, but I’ve always thought of Web 3.0 to be the portability of Web 2.0. Meaning that any Web site will be able to integrate the features of all social networking sites into their personal or corporate sites. So instead of making mom and pop shops invest in custom Web 2.0 features or move over to Facebook Pages, they could add the Facebook plug-in to their site immediately adding functions such as a forum, member profiles, pictures, private messaging, chatting, etc and so on. Web sites will end up a hybrid of custom design and content and social network plug-ins. Maybe that’s Web 2.5.

Ning is providing social network enabled shells that folks can use to create their own branded social network, which again, is making someone move from existing real estate to a confined, template driven environment. Nice for a new idea, but re-work for an existing one.

Google friend connect (http://www.google.com/friendconnect) is the closest thing I’ve seen so far, to this idea. It has gadgets, plug-ins, API’s, newsletter creation and distribution, member profiles, security hierarchies, monetization, moderation tools, ratings and review infrastructures, and analytics. Everything you would need to get in the game.

I’m just beginning the grand experiment to implement the latest social/community tools to an old-school, closed community of very opinionated, scared of change, old folkies, who happen to be the very people who taught me about online communities in the first place.

Hey Guys,

I have some good news! I think that we should vote on something.

Do you guys think we should keep our current login screen, or do you think we need a new one?

Here is a picture of one login screen that I was currently working on:

Don’t forget to vote!

~Hygt5
Stick World Team

Hey Guys,

Today the new room has been released!

It is a Movie Theater!

Be sure to open up your map and walk over to the Movies!

Also, at the beach there is a “snorkle” sign! Click It, and go take a dive!

That’s all for now!

~Hygt5

Hey Guys,

I can’t wait for the new room to come out!

I think that everyone is as excited as me, because I’m sure this room will be one of the best!

I can’t say when It will come out, but It will be released sometime this week.

Also, If you have any questions, concerns, or Ideas, please send a response to:

support@stick-world.tk

That’s all for now, keep checking back!

~Hygt5
Stick World Team

By Ernest O’Dell – DMS Group and Guerrilla Internet Marketing

1. Do you know which of your past marketing efforts have been SUCCESSFUL?

Find out where the rock created the ripple, then go back and throw more rocks. Repeat past successes. Trying something different and expecting different results can lead to insanity!

2. Do your beautiful, award-winning marketing materials actually influence customer decisions?

More times out of none… no, they don’t. Nobody cares. Nobody cares about you, nobody cares about your company and nobody cares about your crappy brochure or your Power Point Presentation. Presentations suck!

Your customers and prospects only care about THEMSELVES and what you can do to make their lives better. Get over yourself.

When they pick up your marketing collateral, they generally ask themselves a few questions:

“Who cares?”
“So what?”
“What’s in it for me?”

In Texas we might say, “Who the heck cares? Who gives a rip? So what? Big deal? What am I gonna get out of it?”

Imagine Bart Simpson, the animated loser of television fame, asking those questions of you. Your prospects are probably going to be more polite, but the questions are still there, lurking in the dark recesses and the abyss of their minds.

Address those questions in your marketing material, and you’ll have a winner.

3. Does your marketing make people raise their eyebrows?

If not, you’re in trouble. Because this involuntary indicator of interest, intrigue and curiosity is the best instant barometer of your marketing. EVER. Huh? Before Aha!

Driving into San Antonio, Texas, there are lots of billboards along the highway. One in particular that I remember is the one that said,

Does Advertising Work?
It just did!

Get people’s attention with your marketing, then make them raise their eyebrows.

4. How are you enabling your customers to do your marketing for you?

Build community. Build relationships. Cultivate fans, not customers.

Make yourself and your products so remarkable from the very beginning that you clients and prospects CAN’T forget you. Do that and you’ll never have to waste your money on another worthless Yellow Pages ad again… EVER!

Fans (not customers) equal money.

5. How are you getting permission from people to market to them?

You ARE collecting email addresses, right? You ARE sending out a regular, value-driven newsletter, right? You ARE getting subscribers to your blog through RSS, right? Get permission early.

6. How are you marketing yourself daily?

The more answers you can come up with to this question, the more money you will make. Period. Market yourself—not your company, product or service—on a daily basis. YOU will become known as the “go-to” person for the solution to their problem.

7. How much money do you spend on marketing?

On one hand, you could say “nada,” if your customers are doing your marketing for you. On the other hand, you could say “mucho dinero,” if everything you do is a form of marketing. Imagination, not millions.

8. How much time do you spend on marketing each day?

On one hand, you could say “nunca,” if your customers are doing your marketing for you. On the other hand, you could say “todo,” if everything you do is a form of marketing. Imagination, not millions.

9. How much stopping power does your marketing have?

Nobody notices normal. Nobody buys boring. The effectiveness of a message isn’t necessarily dependent on its longevity, but rather its ability to evoke emotion in the moment. Make people stop.

10. Is your marketing making music or noise?

It’s the difference between the homeless guy who sits on a street corner with a sign versus the homeless guy who stands in a subway station with a guitar. One gets money; the other gets ignored. Interesting. Sing; don’t yell.

11. Is your marketing so good that it doesn’t even look like marketing?

Not because it’s slick, but because it’s authentic. It’s YOU. A logical extension of your passion and love and fire. Movements, not campaigns.

Does it identify any problems or frustrations, and imply a solution? If it doesn’t, you’ve got a problem.

You’ve got to blow people away with your message. You’ve got to stop them DEAD in their tracks and grab their attention like a monkey focused on a shiny object.

12. Does your marketing piece come across like a boring technical manual, or does it “talk” to your prospect?

Sometimes you have to write your ad piece in such a way that it violates all the rules of grammar, and the sensibilities of your English teacher.
If you come across as too intellectual, you’re going to lose about 99% of your prospects—even the intellectual ones.

You say, “Well, dawling! That doesn’t sound very professional. I wouldn’t do that to my brochure.”

Hey, you can do whatever you want to do with your money—and your brochure—because I don’t give a rip!

I’m just telling you you’ll be the “most professional” broke guy who still has his pride intact. But your bank account will be depleted because you’ve been drinking the M&A kool-aid that your old ad agency has been giving you.

It’s up to you.

In short… last, but not least…

You can learn The Marketing Equation, or you can go broke.

Last time I looked, the commies in the District of Criminals haven’t totally taken over and this is STILL a free country.

And if your idea of “the Pursuit of Happiness” envisions getting “taken to the cleaners” by the disengenuous M&A firms you’ve been working with, then I hope you’re happy you got to “do it YOUR way.”

Ernest O’Dell – CEO
Guerrilla Internet Marketing
E-mail: GuerrillaInternetMarketing@gmail.com
Guerrilla Internet Marketing

Ernest O’Dell is the moderator of the guerrillainternetmarketing

He is also the author of “Guerrilla Real Estate Marketing” and soon to be published “Black Ops Manual In Guerrilla Internet Marketing.” Watch for it!

Hey Guys,

I am really excited to tell you that I have fixed the Support E-Mail glitch!

You can go ahead and send an e-mail to us at:

support@stick-world.tk

One of our Moderators will gladly respond to you!

~Hygt5