Daily Archives: 02/22/2010

(Community Matters) Marfa Public Radio Spring Rendezvous on March 20 – it’s a bash at the Capri featuring entertainment by Webb Wilder, proceeds benefit the West Texas NPR affiliate.  Marfa wouldn’t be the same without ’em. I’ve agreed to go on their board at a meeting that weekend.

Join Steven and me –  great road trip! 

tickets and more information here

(Community Matters) So, I’m trying to understand the fundamentals of Twitter stats.  At Ross Garber’s insistence, I’ve now been tweeting for five weeks.  Feel like a total slacker with only 199 followers to date, though relative to my tweets (124%), maybe I’m not doing so bad.  I do, however, have a really high percentage following to followers (93%) which I’m told is important to building up followers – not to metion informative, ie., the purpose, right?

I crunched some numbers (totally unscientific since not randomly selected nor a valid sample size) – nevertheless, among many of the most active tweeters in Austin, the average following to followers is 56% and average [corrected] followers to tweets is 56%.  I segregated new media journalists – their numbers 27% and 159%, respectively.  And, the super stars (in this case: Barack Obama, Lance Armstrong and Doug Ulman) yield 9% and over 200k%, respectively – the President in the mid 6 figure range, Lance & Doug in the low and medium five figure range on followers to tweets.

Wanna help me out – follow me here 🙂

@EugeneAustin

(Community Matters) Watch Austin Kleon’s interpretation of TEDxAustin on sticky notes – brilliant. btw, Austin was one of our favorites at last week’s Pecha Kucha

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(Community Matters) Feels like I’ve gone from being the relatively quiet one in the room or at the table (I know, I know, but it’s all relative and we hang in a pretty outspoken crowd) to consuming too much air time and oxygen.  I was thinking about dinner last night.  We heard from Deborah Hay about her early career as a dancer with Merce Cunningham & John Cage, about the Judson Dance Theater and about her work in Amsterdam and Australia.  From Margaret Keys – in collaboration with Steven and Nancy Graves – working with the New York editor last week on a book which I am especially excited about (not only for the art but you gotta love mailbox money).  Joe Christie, Margaret and I had lots to say and share about TEDxAustin and Petch Kucha.  I admit eating it up and basking in glowing reviews of ADL and my bit to do with TED this weekend, plus I’m nonstop talking about HelpHaiti, yesterday about Reggie’s sermon, lots and lots to say – this feels unlike me.  A better sign of my mental health and well-being when, on average, I’m more of a listener.  We sorta drowned out Tana Christie and Michael Mitchell last night.  If I hadn’t spent personal time with each recently, I wouldn’t know what’s most important in their days/weeks/months.  Isn’t that a sign of being a good listener, a good friend?  – knowing what’s important to your friends today