Garden Basket

wire and wood basketScratched this up from some scrap in the back yard. We got tired of carrying stuff in our shirts.

I wanted to keep it narrow, but the handle seemed to be in the way, so I decided on this design.  Not the strongest, but we’ll see how it goes.

I’ve seen other wire and wood baskets and hear that it makes it easy to hose things off. I put mine up on little feet to keep things out of the dirt and help drying.  The can is holding a scissors, but I can see it good for other handy tools one might want have.

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Cthulhu fob

small stuffed doll. blueSomething to grace my USB stick so I am less apt to forget it.  Not just scary and ugly, but poorly crafted as well. (The later is not intentional, just due to weak skills.)

 

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Just a quick note to say I’m still around.  I have more than a few ideas I will need to be blogging about. Some art related, others more on the social media and collaboration side…stay tuned!

Also exploring a bit of Google+

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Health Org’s Communities and Perceptions

Contrary to what one might think, how much empathy an online community seems to have may not be driven by its community’s social bonding.  For healthcare organizations, it is communities that could effectively inform, and not socially bond, which were perceived to be empathetic. 1

Not as surprisingly, communities where one felt the other members were similar to themselves, homophily, were perceived to be more empathetic. 1

What might this mean for a community manager?

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Popularity Contest

Think you know what your audience likes? Be sure, by tracking the activity around your content.

By using meta-data about your web content, and traffic analysis, you may begin to see what sorts of things are popular with your audience. You can also run experiments to test your ideas. But what meta-data do you track? Here are a few categories. I’d really like to hear of others-

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