Comox Valley tag clouds: July 31, 2010

A friend of mine is developing a cool tool for getting a sense of what people are saying online. Here's a pic of what the keyword "Comox Valley" looks like when the Twitter-sphere is searched for the past week:

No surprise that "Record" shows up so large as the Comox Valley Record, like all the Black papers, is online and posting news items frequently. No surprise either that "beautiful" is one of next highest ranking tags. The Comox Valley really is a beautiful place (and lucky me, I get to call this place home).

Let's look at what a scouring of the blogosphere looks like using this tool...

What does that tell you? Besides the strange "general" word showing up front and centre, I like it that "music" is one of the bigger tags (after expected ones like island, valley, Vancouver, Comox). Not so cool that "unemployment" is so often associated with the Comox Valley though... (but curious, when you consider how large "work" is in the Twitter tag cloud – maybe people are looking for work on Twitter, but talking about unemployment on blog posts?).

hanspetermeyer

31 July 2010

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Comox Valley tag cloud: July 31, 2010

A friend of mine is developing a cool tool for getting a sense of what people are saying online. Here's a pic of what the keyword "Comox Valley" looks like when the Twitter-sphere is searched for the past week:

No surprise that "Record" shows up so large as the Comox Valley Record, like all the Black papers, is online and posting news items frequently. No surprise either that "beautiful" is one of next highest ranking tags. The Comox Valley really is a beautiful place (and lucky me, I get to call this place home).

Let's look at what a scouring of the blogosphere looks like using this tool...

What does that tell you? Besides the strange "general" word showing up front and centre, I like it that "music" is one of the bigger tags (after expected ones like island, valley, Vancouver, Comox). Not so cool that "unemployment" is so often associated with the Comox Valley though... (but curious, when you consider how large "work" is in the Twitter tag cloud – maybe people are looking for work on Twitter, but talking about unemployment on blog posts?).

hanspetermeyer

31 July 2010

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Jean Russell talks about "thrivability"

Jean Russell is an interesting, inspiring, and (very) active woman. She's also a bit of a model for me as she succeeds in doing what I'm aspiring to do: create and nurture conversations about change. I interviewed Jean in mid-July we had our own conversation, mostly about "thrivability" and how this connects to the "conscious capital" conversations I've been gathering here.

Getting to know you... even when you're in Chicago and I'm on Vancouver Island
It's one of the wonderful things about social media that I can get to know and talk to people from all over. I can't remember how I "met" Jean, but I know that it's through Twitter that I keep abreast of her various activities. It's also through twitter that she got me involved in a very cool online book project: Thrivability: A Collaborative Sketch.

But, back to Jean: She's worked and collaborated with colleagues in fields ranging from technology (esp social media) to philanthropy, currencies, green/sustainable design, community development, international development, and human rights. She co-founded Nurture.biz and Inspired Legacies as "catalyst organizations," and is now embarked on a project to reframe the sustainability conversation as one about "thrivability."

You can find out more about Jean and thrivability at thrivable.org and thrivable.net. You can follow Jean's thrivability conversation at twitter.com/NurtureGirl.

Thanks for listening!

hanspetermeyer
24 July 2010


ps. You can download the Conscious Capital conversations as podcasts from iTunes here.