The public works tirelessly to flee to actual interactions between real people, and our organizations work even more diligently (and with more leverage) to corporatize and anonymize the interactions.
The irony, of course, is that an organization with guts can go in the opposite direction and win.
”A totally worthwhile 16 and a half minutes. I’ll be looking at the museum with an effort to find the mouse.
I really like the way that Ren separates his content and offers different feeds based on (in his case) various amounts of information. I think it would be nice to have a firehose feed for all things, a multimedia feed for just pictures and videos, individual blogging feeds, etc.
Until our blog readers can accurately do this for us (the best example of this that I’ve seen is Facebook’s slider concept), I’m a fan of offering this option.
Every week I find probably a dozen new conversations happening online about the Museum. Those bloggers are like an army of citizen marketers. What if we rewarded the best blog entries with tickets to the Museum? Or coverage in our newsletter? Or a spot on our wall? Or our plasma screens? We could send out a badge for their blogs and promote their entry/photo/video in our virtual and physical space.
I’m on it.
This video does a wonderful job at illustrating the difference ways we conform in crowds. Museum exhibits (and the paths in between them) are a kind of elevator scenario, too.