Social Media Club Hits the Accelerator

With the recent press release from the Social Media Club, everyone is off and running! A new board and new opportunity. So I’ve clearly gotten myself over my head again, looking for some input…. It’s not like being over my head it’s unfamiliar space for me. After my post on the Social Media Club’s execution, I’ve had a flurry of activity around here. After the dust has settled, I have now committed to figuring some stuff out and doing a little effort. Oh what crazy stuff comes from truthiness. Great opportunity, is my take and an interesting process to boot.

After several interactions and a thoughtful discussion with Chris, I’m back to doing standards work, but in the context of Social Media. Chris and I rambled for a couple of minutes on the phone, talked around some my volunteer work in standards and industry groups (X12, VICS, NEECOM, OAGi, RosettaNet and then UCC, now GS1) and shared interest which apparently gave me some street cred. So with this somewhat trivial and completely unverified experience, I’m now able to “officially” allocate some time to the group. The trust economy is indeed a strange thing.

Kinda of refreshing – add value where you can. I guess membership wasn’t a bad idea and yes the t-shirt is great!

The evidently egalitarian approach to this club is fairly refreshing. An interim group to drive the next iteration of Social Media Club was kicked off this week. The group is 42 folks with seemingly diverse skill sets, seems a little big I know. The benefit of this approach is a highly redundant skills architecture to help scale the organization, a service oriented architecture for the organizations. The loosely couple governance model is constrained to a single rule set/theme – “do good for SMC”. In near real-time the group had a list server, press release draft, a wiki and a request for research.

Do The Work

Volunteer organizations are interesting entities – passion, skills and no shortage of things to do to be successful. Same thing at SMC. Every organization I’ve ever engaged in since I was young democrat had more work to go around than folks. So in an effort to start doing the work, I thought I would kick off my participation to better understand Identity.

Social media is a changing landscape where personality, historical actions and group membership/brand association continue to impact the individual and identity. Below is a piece that Chris did a while back to help thinking about how social media and identity are innately evolving or devolving in lock step.

Fractured identity and the limited ability to aggregate access is becoming increasingly laborious set of activities for me at least. Platform fatigue, technology emergence or context changes impact where and how an individual participates, so data portability could be considered important.. That being said, it may not be the priority to focus on which would better enable adoption.

So in the interest of loosely defined research, I am lookin for a little help from my friends. What should be highest priority area of interest in standards alignment/adoption for Social Media Club? Is there another theme or standard which would return significant value to the over all community?

Here is the shortlist:

So let’s prioritize and do the work.

Comment, post or tweet.

If you post your ideas, let me know with a comment or use SMCBOARD as a tag for your post.

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12 Comments

  • Reply jon gatrell July 9, 2008 at 5:10 pm

    Social Media Club Hits the Accelerator: With the recent press release from the Social Media Club, every.. http://tinyurl.com/6cjqhz

  • Reply jon gatrell July 11, 2008 at 3:35 am

    Need a little help with prioritization and input. Hopefully you tweeps can help out. http://tinyurl.com/6cdc9u

  • Reply geostuff July 11, 2008 at 3:40 am

    retweet – @spatially Need a little help with prioritization and input. Hopefully you tweeps can help out. http://tinyurl.com/6cdc9u

  • Reply emmyg July 11, 2008 at 3:42 am

    retweet – @spatially Need a little help with prioritization and input. Hopefully you tweeps can help out. http://tinyurl.com/6cdc9u

  • Reply Kris @ Fresh Focus July 11, 2008 at 5:44 am

    Wow – that’s quite an undertaking! That’s a good punch list too. Here’s my thoughts.

    Creative Commons should most like come first, as anything that is out will need clarification as to it’s usage.

    Next, OpenID. Gotta have a way to get in there!

    Data portability next, for the reasons you’ve mentioned above.

    Lastly, Microformats. With those three up there, this one won’t get much of anywhere.

    Hope this helps!

  • Reply jon gatrell July 11, 2008 at 4:22 pm

    @FreshFocus thanks for your priority list – creative commons huh? http://tinyurl.com/5n6lwr

  • Reply J G July 11, 2008 at 6:21 pm

    Thanks for the thought and the ordered priorities – exactly what I was hoping I would get.

  • Reply @Stephen Productivity in Context July 12, 2008 at 5:43 am

    This looks cool, I’ll have to keep my eyes on this.

  • Reply J G July 12, 2008 at 8:03 am

    you can join for free or pay something a get yourself a t-shirt and a cool laminated wallet sized membership card which isn’t in my wallet.

    What would you focus on @Stephen?

    ~jon

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  • Reply jon gatrell July 17, 2008 at 2:52 am

    work a listen http://tinyurl.com/56nxtj what you do want to do? http://tinyurl.com/6cdc9u

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