I began writing on the concept of reputation economics here on DailyKos thirteen months ago. Someone sent me this link today and it seems a good time to sum up what I've said so far in preparation for the next phase.
House Dems Get New Media Space Of Their Own
Below the fold are the eight diaries and two guides I published during this time.
Just added the link to my BlogSpot dedicated to Reputation Economics on 12/25/201. See also the related BlogSpot Attention Conservation.
I introduced Bruce Sterling's concept of reputation economics to DailyKos in the spring of 2009 with Reputation Economics (Following Markos Tweets)
It was obvious that Twitter would be important in the overalls scheme of things. I look at a variety of schemes for measuring effectiveness and settled on Klout. I introduced this to DailyKos in October of 2009 with Measuring Twitter Effectiveness With Klout
Conservatives own Twitter, right? Not so fast! I explored this in October. Also. Do Conservatives REALLY Own Twitter? Maybe.
We seem to be the only ones keeping a full list of incumbents and challengers for the House, Senate, and Gubernatorial seats for both parties. We just left it public for a while, but then we realized the strategic advantage this gave us over anyone else attempting to work in this space. The data is now hidden, but the diary is a good read. Reputation Economics Advances On Twitter
Twitter is full of humans who talk about what they had for lunch, right? Or is it better modeled as a sort of collective brain, which each account acting as a neuron? Social Media Neurology: Short Term Memory
Twitter is cool, but it's an accident. Right now they're in the same position AOL was in the mid 1990s. If they screw up a distributed system run by those using it could very well take their place. Social Media's Federated Future
Bruce Sterling also coined the phrase attention conservation in addition to reputation economics itself. Twitter is a total waste of time … unless you have a platoon analysts who help you filter information. Effective users instinctively understand this concept, which I explore in Twitter:Attention Conservation
Thirteen months after my first posting on reputation economics I came back around with a summation of what the thinking in these seven preceding diaries. The nature of this game is about to change and this is an excellent capstone for the formative phase. Reputation Economics Revisited
I've published two 'best practices' documents. This is also formative; the real deal is much more powerful and now available internally to elected Democrats and candidates.
Twitter: Best Practices For Politicians V1.0
Twitter: Best Practices For Politicians V1.1