Community Divas

Welcome to episode eleven!Run time: 23:32Community Divas on iTunesA podcast about communities and social media toolsIn this episode: - Eden interviews Ali de Bold from ChickAdvisor- We talk about Podcamp Halifax- Introducing the Twitter Song by Michelle Yogis - We have an addition to the community calendarAli de Bold is a third-generation entrepreneur. In 2006, she and her husband Alex launched ChickAdvisor as a solution for Ali’s constant search for the perfect hair salon. Since then it has become a thriving online community where women share reviews about their favourite stores, products and services. 00:01 Intro by Jay Moonah.00:09 Eden Spodek and Connie Crosby.00:15 Summary of this episode. 00:26 Eden introduces Ali de Bold00:51 Eden welcomes Ali de Bold to Community Divas01:00 Ali explains what ChickAdvisor is and how it got started01:45 Ali and her husband Alex de Bold created ChickAdvisor01:50 Ali explains her role now. Mentioned: ChickChat TV video series, their Product Review Club and local events su

We’re at PodCamp Halifax today. Last night we met Michelle Yogis (aka @myogis) at the pre-PodCamp Halifax Tweet-up. When she mentioned she wrote a song about Twitter we were intrigued. She gave us a copy and we’d like to share it with you. Cheers from PodCamp Halifax,Eden and Connie

Happy New Year & welcome to episode ten!Run time: 24:02Community Divas on iTunesA podcast about communities and social media toolsIn this episode: - Connie interviews Dave Brodbeck about his podcasts - Eden has a question about community builders receiving swag for blogging - We update the community calendar We know Dave Brodbeck as a podcaster, but he is also Associate Professor and Chair in the Department of Psychology at Algoma University in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario. Algoma is considered to be one of Canada's northern universities. Dave podcasts at: www.thunderbirdsix.org, www.brocasarea.ca, people.auc.ca/brodbeck/blog, tangentialconvergence.blogspot.com, and whysciencepodcast.blogspot.com. 00:01 Intro by Jay Moonah.00:09 Eden Spodek and Connie Crosby.00:19 Summary of this rockin' episode. 00:45 Connie welcomes Dave Brodbeck to Community Divas. 00:58 Dave talks about his podcasts: Broca's Area which he does with his wife Isabelle (hi, Isabelle!). He also does Tangential Convergence with his buddy, Alg

Welcome to episode nine!Run time: 16:02Community Divas on iTunesA podcast about communities and social media toolsIn this episode: - Eden interviews Amrita Chandra of tinku gallery - We talk about community building events - Have a bit of a community calendar Amrita Chandra is the Founder of tinku gallery, a contemporary art gallery in Toronto, representing emerging and mid-career artists from across Canada and the U.S.Her website is http://www.tinkugallery.com/ and she blogs at http://tinkutales.blogspot.com/.00:01 Intro by Jay Moonah00:09 Eden Spodek and Connie Crosby00:15 Summary of today’s episode00:36 Eden welcomes Amrita Chandra.00:44 Where did the idea of tinku gallery in Toronto came from?01:31 Why is community building important to the success of an art gallery?02:19 Building relationships with customers and artists. Amrita talks about the blog she created to start.03:08 Other online tools she is using: Twitter and Facebook. She has found that Twitter and the blog have been the best tools for

Sun, 23 November 2008Episode 8: Simon Chen and Melany Gallant of Ramius Corporation discuss Ramius' web-based community platform: Sixent.Welcome to episode eight!Run time: 15:29Community Divas on iTunesA podcast about communities and social media toolsIn this episode:- Connie interviews Simon Chen and Melany Gallant about Ramius Corporation’s web-based community platform: Sixent.- We talk about Sustainability Camp- Community calendarSimon Chen is a consultant and Melany Gallant is the director of marketing for Ramius Corporation, a firm based in Ottawa, Ontario. Ramius designs and develops online social technologies and is perhaps best known for CommunityZero, an online community platform. Most recently, they launched an beta test for Sixent, a social networking platform.00:01 Intro by Jay Moonah00:09 Eden Spodek and Connie Crosby00:15 Summary of today’s episode00:50 Connie welcomes Simon and Melany and asks them to explain their roles at Ramius Corporation.01:04 Simon explains his role at Ramius and how it’s

Welcome to  episode seven!Run time: 22:19Community Divas on iTunesA podcast about communities and social media toolsIn this episode:- An interview with Cameron MacLean and Josh Freeman about their Online Journalism course- Discussion by Eden and Connie about a comment from Keith Burtis of Magic Woodworks.Cameron MacLean and Josh Freeman are students in the Master of Arts in Journalism program at the University of Western Ontario. We interviewed them about the Online Journalism course they are currently taking with instructor and social media consultant Wayne MacPhail. 00:01 Intro by Jay Moonah00:09 Eden Spodek and Connie Crosby00:15 Summary of today’s episode00:27 Introducing this week's guests Cameron MacLean and Josh Freeman00:58 The Divas welcome Cameron and Josh01:10 What does community mean to them? Cameron and Josh talk about both online and in-person communities.02:38 Building rapport between class members and people from outside the class, for example Bill Deys and Picard102 (John Leschinski). So

Welcome to  episode six!Run time: 18:49Community Divas on iTunesA podcast about communities and social media toolsIn this episode:- An interview with Adele McAlear about video tools- Discussion by Eden and Connie about the interview with Adele- Community NewsAdele McAlear is the principal at McAlear Marketing and she blogs at Marketing Monster - http://www.adelemcalear.com/. Adele was in town recently and organized a Tweet-up, a real-life get together for some of her twitter friends. After the tweet-up, the three of us went to a nearby restaurant  and recorded the interview so please excuse the background noise.00:01 Intro by Jay Moonah00:09 Eden Spodek and Connie Crosby00:15 Summary of today’s episode00:21 Introducing this week's guest, Adele McAlear01:08 Introducing Adele01:24 What video tools Adele is using?01:41 Seesmic has just hit the 100,000 user mark with 5,000 active users currently02:14 Seesmic going through a "belt-tightening" period02:24 They are about to release a new version.

Welcome to  episode five!Run time: 15:03Community Divas on iTunesA podcast about communities and social media toolsIn this episode:- Eden interviews Kathryn Lagden about community building at PTO Today, we discuss one of the issues raised in the interview and we have some community news.- We discuss Kathryn's concern about managing multiple tools within one community website.- Community News: Podcamp Toronto - Feb. 21 & 22 at Rogers Communications Centre at Ryerson University, sign up on the wiki at http://podcamptoronto.org~~~The Avon Breast Cancer CrusadeIn support of breast cancer research, Avon Canada begins the ‘Call for the Cure,’ a grassroots awareness campaign raising funds for the Canadian Breast Cancer Research Alliance.A call to 1-900-561-PINK will automatically donate $2 to breast cancer research (land line phones only). For more information on this and other related Avon crusades: Canada - http://avoncrusade.ca/U.S. - http://www.avoncompany.com/women/avoncrusade/U.K. - http://www.av

Welcome to our fourth episode! Run time: 20:47Community Divas on iTunesA podcast about communities and social media toolsIn this episode:- Daniele Rossi talks about his podcasts, particularly building a niche community for his Stuttering is Cool podcast. - We discuss Jane Rowe’s question about building a community in the business-to-business area where one doesn't (quite) yet exist.Daniele Rossi is a website designer, brilliant artist and illustrator,  and podcaster. Daniele blogs at DanieleRossi.ca and SuperSpud.com. He podcasts at Stuttering is Cool, SpudCast and The Laughing Podcast. 00:01 Intro by Jay Moonah00:10 Eden Spodek and Connie Crosby00:15 Summary of today’s episode00:23 Eden introduces our interview with Daniele Rossi, apparently having listened to The Laughing Podcast beforehand. Also mentioned: Podcamp, PAB (Podcasters Across Borders) and Podcamp Montreal.00:48 Interview with Daniele Rossi.00:56 Daniele talks about how he first got into podcasting.01:22 His original podcast is  S

Welcome to our third episode!Run time: 18:14Community Divas on iTunesIn this episode- We interview The Smartest Man in the World, Saul Colt- Our discussion about community building and online tools continues with some thoughts from Mark Blevis.Saul Colt is the handsome Head of Magic at FreshBooks, and the brilliant mind that helped with the successful launch of Zipcar into Canada.  Saul's personal blog is Saul Colt: Smartest Man in the World!00:01 Intro by Jay Moonah00:10 Eden Spodek and Connie Crosby00:15 Summary of today’s episode00:26 Introducing interview with Saul Colt00:45 Interview with Saul Colt00:51 Saul gives us his definition of community01:08 The hard-hitting question off the top: how does the FreshBooks company connect through communities?02:48 What does Freshbooks do to inject fun into its community?03:27 Saul talks about Roadburn04:49 and about Sunburn07:38 Why do they bring customers together?09:08 What communities do they participate in? For example, SXSW and Podcamp [Freshbooks on the S

Welcome to our second episode!Run time: 17:16Community Divas on iTunesIn this episodeWe present Part 2 of our interview with Jay Moonah, a podcaster, marketing strategist, musician and a driving force behind the social media unconference Podcamp Toronto. He blogs and podcasts at MediaDriving.com.Connie gives an update about her Twitter account deactivation.  Eden and Connie then discuss whether it is possible to use too many online community building tools. Tell us what you think!We try another method for recording our discussions. Our conclusion: keep looking for another method. 00:01 Intro by Jay Moonah00:09 Eden Spodek and Connie Crosby introduce themselves00:14 Summary of today’s episode00:24 Introducing part 2 of our interview with Jay Moonah00:35 Interview with Jay Moonah continues00:41 Jay talks about how to determine which tools to use for community building around marketing efforts. He mentions some of the demographic research covered in the book Groundswell by Charlene Li and Josh Bernoff. He a

Welcome to our first episode! Run time: 22:23Community Divas on iTunesThis is a podcast about communities because, coming from different backgrounds, our mutual interest is community building and we wanted to share our unique perspectives.  Each week we'll be interviewing people who are known for their leadership roles in different communities followed by a discussion of different online tools and their role in community building. In this episodeWe present Part 1 of our interview with Jay Moonah, a podcaster, marketing strategist, musician and a driving force behind the social media unconference Podcamp Toronto. He blogs and podcasts at MediaDriving.com. His bands are Uncle Seth and The McFlies.Connie and Eden discuss Twitter, and Connie's account being deactivated. Eden poses the question: Is Twitter a community? Tell us what you think!00:01 Intro by Jay Moonah00:09 Eden Spodek and Connie Crosby 00:42 Summary of today’s episode00:56 Introducing interview with Jay Moonah01:08 Interview with Jay Moonah01: