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  What is love anyway?

  More than a word or a feeling, to me it is a state of mind that impacts in a positive way how we choose to observe and interact with the world around us.

  Posted 09 Feb 07 in Love

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  Deleting Groups

  I created a group, made it private and now no longer want to keep it. Is there a way to delete a group that was created, before anyone else joins? Beyond that was curious about the rights of a group creator after it is public and others participate in it. Are there any rights for the creator that are different for anyone else?

   

  Posted 09 Feb 07 in Tangler Feedback

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  What would you like to be able to do differently in your daily life, if you could harness the power of your social network?

  Similar to "Phantom" I thought it would be interesting to see a social network solve problems or build something.  A lot like the system/network being greater than the sum of its parts.  I suppose the network would need a core i.d. to rally around (reason/background on its importance), a flow of the right information to provide more accurate input, and a framework to start things off.   There was a book by Margaret Wheatley I read once that spoke to this kind of approach.

  Posted 09 Feb 07 in Web 2.5 group

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  Navigating between groups

  You all have done a great job.  The primary thought that I had was a better means by which I can navigate from one grup to another.  I found myself clicking on the home button to get out of one group to find another group.  Not huge, just wonder if a tag cloud approach for groups might be an approach. And possibly a means by which to incorporate your favorite groups into your personal website.

  Thanks. 

  Posted 06 Feb 07 in Tangler Feedback

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  Explaining Pinko To An Accountant

  I believe (I am new to this term) that Pinko Marketing and the startup of a new venture are two separate things.

  In speaking with an accountant regarding Pinko Marketing practices, you could go down the route of engaging in authentic dialogue with people that might buy or have bought your products and services, through this approach an organization could learn what's important to individuals, what they want, etc. to improve product and service offerings for the organization which translates into more dollars. I would investigate with the accountant, the value of a trusted relationship between an organization and an individual?  I believe this could be determined through lifetime value measures, etc.  In addition, I believe this type of approach could reduce marketing costs for an organization that typically spends a great deal on expensive (sometimes unmeasurable) tactics under the fallacy that one can manipulate an individual to buy or be moved through a buy cycle. 

  Regarding the business plan when telling a potential investor that you are giving the service away for free and you have no control, that would depend on the service but I would imagine that if it is a vehicle/platform by which organizations can engage in dialogue with individuals as mentioned above, its value can become great. Then one would need to determine how to monetize it without breaking the trust of the people that invested in the platform with their thoughts and conversations.  I suppose once you had traction that you might be able to implement a subscription model,  paid access to additional features, non-cloaked surveys/research on behalf of organizations, others? 

  Posted 06 Feb 07 in Pinko Marketing