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We had a great conversation with hilarious and poetic playwright and comic actor Bill Corbett (Rifftrax, Mystery Science Theatre 3000) about elements of improv, playwrighting and comedy that all relate to tummeling and succeeding in working in flow and creating social engagement.

The core elements of improv that seemed most important:

-yes, and (not denying the reality anyones presenting. This isn't about dealing with trolls but meeting people generally where they are and adding something to it)

-being present

-commitment

-risk

-surprise

Deb related the element of surprise in the business world to 3Ms decision to capitalize on the accident or "failure" in the creation of Post-its. In tech, Kevin related it to people hacking on an existing product and the ability in the software world to change products quickly. In fear

We also had a pretty in-depth discussion of comedy, it's evolution into snark, how it's done on twitter and what Bill sees trending on twitter as a growing return to an approach to more direct humour.

Links from this week:

Attention has not been democratized (danah boyd)

Trust means being vulnerable to someone (Ben Laurie on Ed Felton)

Baratunde's twitcom

Geek sincerity

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80's theme song: Hold on Loosely

Episode 7 Download the audio

Do you speak-a my language? Elizabeth Churchill - TummelVision Ep. 7 from heather gold on Vimeo.

There was a little Buzz, a little iPad and a lot of accents swirling around the show this week.   It was our first  "international parity" edition serendipitously coinciding with the Olympics; we had two brits [Kevin and Elizabeth], a Canadian [Heather] and an American [Deb].  Ironically,  we did not even touch on the Games themselves but rather focused on  the true international language of "connecting the dots" and the human behavior and interfaces that help folks connect. We discussed why the role of a Tummler is often taken on by the liminal or non powerful members in  society and organizations as well as how the field of Computer Human Interaction is and is not changing as a a result of mass adoption of social tools.  We also took a second look at Buzz and some of the Buzz  backlash and what it does or does not do well when viewed through a social lens.

This week's links:

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80's theme song: Do You Speak-a My Language

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Adrian Chan joined us to talk about Social Interaction Design, which he describes thus:

Social interaction design is UX and interaction design for social media. It's the work of many practitioners and is applied through many practices. SxD is an application of insights into social media that starts with users. How they use social media reflects their personal and social interests as well as their relationships. The interactions occur among users, not just between users and the interface. I look for the emergent social practices that make your site, application, or service a social success.

As Google launched Buzz this week, we spent a lot of the show talking about it, and the privacy problem it raised though auto-connecting your contacts.

This weeks links:

Gravity7 blog

Social Interaction Design primer

SxD Salon blog

Slides:

What is sxd

personality types

user competencies

Johnny Holland is an open collective exploring the interactions of experience design.

Society for New Communications Research

Buzz commentary:

Open Standards within Buzz by Kevin Marks and Chris Messina

Privacy failings by Suw Charman and Chris Carfi

Google's improvements

Twitter theory applied to Buzz

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80's theme song: I Want to Know what Buzz Is

The 80s title of today's show comes from Stir It Up one of many hits (http://alleewillis.com/discography/index.htm) written by our guest Allee Willis who creates in layers, in many mediums and is a pioneering social artist. Allee works in music, video animation, visual art, painting, digital forms, kitsch and in party throwing. Her focus on process and collaboration heart and pioneering tech and web understanding makes her the ur Tummelvision guest (not to mention her collection of 15 cowbells which she pulled out to play with us).

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Kathy Sierra joined us for a great conversation about her biggest passion: you. Note-worthy moments and themes:

- How do you create excellent experiences for users

- Clay Shirky's recent rant about women, wishing they'd show more chutzpah and self-promotion

- a useful unself promotion approach to work and social media presence than "personal branding." It's certainly working for Kathy.

- Why follower counts aren't the thing to pay attention to

- the iPad's social possibilities both online and between real life and online.

- Deb quoted the Talmud tonight, Kathy Sierra Daniel Pink and me QVC. That's range!

- Deb got a cowbell, Heather grabbed a hairbrush and Kevin rocked out

- We never wanna get ourselves free. This week's song is so very cowbell worthy.

- Books mentioned: Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience (P.S.)- Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (Kathy dropped his name all casual-like) and Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us

- Daniel Pink

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80's theme song: Caught Up in You

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Deb and Kevin chat with two of the women who helped make what gets called "community" in the "web 2.0" world work. Heather videos in from the airport for a minute. Champ and Oates were both involved in the creation of Flickr, considered the first real "web 2.0" site and a model of a strong community using social media. There's no one who knows more about what design and community features and human interactions affect social engagement online. Champ and Oates are insightful and witty. They're the opposite of Big Brother. But they are watching you.

Thanks to Director of Community at Flickr Heather Champ and Lead for the Open Library at Internet Archive George Oates.

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80's theme song: They're Watching You

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Thanks to guest game designer Nicole Lazzaro

What we discussed this week.

-Nicole's thoughts on CES trends. The game world is missing the social experience. Nicole's ideas on how games create emotion. Daniel Floyd's great video on why video games are missing a broader female audience. Relational and social thinking is the key. If your goal is to get people engaged and involved then you are beginning to think like a tummler.

-Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg implies that privacy is dead. How does being public help you tummel and engage people?

-Vanity Fair on social media "twilebrities." Gawker wasn't impressed either. Anil Dash noted, in a typically thoughtful piece, that no one has over a million followers. We are quite sure than follower numbers don't matter as much as most people assume they do.

-Tummeling Technique: Heather explained the importance of going first via the infamous Sasquatch Dance Party video.

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80's theme song: Games People Play

Recorded on Sept 22, 2009 with guest Jerry Michalski. Many thanks to the TWiT army and odtv.me for making this.

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80's theme song: I'll Tummel for Ya