Personal Revelations of the Magnificent Megan M. » ebook http://worldmegan.net (worldmegan) Wed, 13 Jan 2010 17:30:10 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Got it? http://worldmegan.net/2008/12/got-it/ http://worldmegan.net/2008/12/got-it/#comments Tue, 02 Dec 2008 15:33:53 +0000 Megan M. http://worldmegan.net/?p=1041

In case you needed a reminder: Paul Durban is a design god. Would somebody syndicate Bolofeesh already? ;}

Previous posts about the Tribes Q&A ebook:
The Tribes Q&A (by the Triiibe)
The Tribes Q&A (teeny addendum)
Tribes Q&A on SWIMBERT
The Tribes Casebook (courtesy of Triiibes)

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Thursday morning I had a lovely second podcast chat with Trish Lambert and Karen Swim (because the first recording didn’t take—oops!). I’ve done radio shows for music-related exploits in Cleveland and I did my guppie news girl / announcer stint on WYSU when I was in college, but I’ve never been on a podcast before. It was great!

We mostly talked about the Q&A eBook process and how it might be applied to other organizations. We kept it to about a half hour to avoid overwhelming listeners with information, and we covered a lot of neat things, but oh the things we didn’t get to cover! This subject just fills me up, makes me want to burst and splatter information all over everyone.

I know. Gross. But how else can I get my point across? ;}

Trish and Karen had a lot of fantastic questions in both sessions, and it gave me a lot of glee to have proper answers (well, most of the time). It makes me so happy to see people using and enjoying the Q&A and I can’t help but look forward to the next project… as long as it gives me a little downtime first. Ha!

In any case, you can go listen to the Megan-flavored episode of the SWIMBERT podcast on their site. Thank you, ladies!

PS. There are rumors that there may eventually be unofficial translations of the Tribes Q&A in German and Czech. Though I don’t speak or read either, I’m rather insanely curious about getting to take a look at them if they happen. Pretty neat, huh?

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This is the first project I can remember for which I didn’t particularly care about receiving credit. It resonated with me, needed to be done, and I stepped up to do whatever I could be useful doing. It felt really good to work this way. As a consequence of that, I didn’t add a lot of actual writing to the book—organizing, proofing, little pieces of much longer answers, that’s all. I don’t mind that a bit, because it’s really fulfilling to work on a project like this one that speaks powerfully to me.

But I have to admit, it gives me a lot of glee to see someone I don’t know quoting one teeny tiny piece of text that I know I wrote.

Care. Your tribe knows if you care about them—if you care about what happens to them, what inspires them, what affects them, what improves their lives, and what brings them joy. Likewise, your tribe knows if you do not care—they can smell a fake a mile away and if it is not apparent now, it will be soon. It makes all the difference in the world between a tribe stuck together with paper and string and a tribe whose members are strongly, organically connected to their leader and to one another.

So I’m just going to take a second and be proud of me.

Yeah. Dude. That feels awesome.

Okay.

Second over. Back to work! ;}

[Edit: It happened AGAIN! Same kooky thing, different clip.

Selling goods (such as concert tickets, albums, or T-shirts) is NOT what makes you a living. Connecting people and giving them a place in the world IS. There is a huge difference between focusing on one and focusing on the other. Making a living—making money—is only a pleasant side effect of doing this right. But it is a side effect that happens all the time.

Okay, so I took TWO seconds. I’m sure this is happening to everyone else, I just recognize my own clips. It’s still freaky and awesome!]

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Big seekrit project? Done. Man am I tuckered out!

The Tribes Q&A was released today on Seth Godin’s blog, and elsewhere. You’ll remember the last ebook, the Tribes Casebook, that the Triiibe produced; this one was a bit different. (Okay, a lot different.)

This time, Seth announced the idea and its parameters, gave us some time to brainstorm in the comments of his thread, and… released the project into the wild. As in, he stepped back out of the picture, and we self-organized.

Self-organization is a pretty crazy thing, fascinating and often incredibly powerful (as Seth will attest). A lot of people have a lot of ideas and it takes some time for everything to boil down to the plans that will finally function well enough to drive the project forward. I learned a lot of important (and often uncomfortable) lessons about leadership and self-organized projects during the course of this event. I can’t believe how quickly the time passed (I’m sure that just a few minutes ago it was half-October) and how much I feel like I’ve grown in the meantime. I honestly didn’t know I had it in me. (I wish you the same revelation!)

The Tribes Q&A is the second companion ebook to Seth’s release of Tribes, which happened in October. A good 160+ determined Triiibes members contributed to this book, many of them working their asses off and all of them putting in valuable time and effort to successfully accomplish something meaningful.

I still need to make a few more project workshop posts at Triiibes.com—I want to shed some light on the supremely dedicated crew that made this thing happen, and I want to start a post mortem to discuss how it could have been done better, what worked, what didn’t. Three and a half weeks is an absurdly short period of time in which to accomplish what we tried to accomplish. We could have lowered the bar, but I think we may have raised it a little. I’m grateful to Seth for giving us a deadline that challenged us so intensely. I know I’m not the same since, and I bet a lot of people feel similarly.

I’m late to the party again this time—people started talking about the Q&A this morning and by the time I post this many more will have followed suit. Here’s the Google blog search for the Q&A, and you’ll notice that Twitter is all… a-twitter. (Yeah, I know. I’m pretty funny. :})

I would love for you to take some time to read this book, especially if you’ve already read Tribes. I spent an insanely focused month or so helping to make it happen, and the project is very close to my heart. The people who put it together were downright amazing and I’ve never had so much fun doing something so difficult with so many resolute participants. “Wow” is half the words I say these days (and it’s an understatement).

So here’s the low-down (you remember this): Email it, post it, print it! Please don’t sell it or change it. You can download it for free here. It’s definitely worth the read.


More information on the Tribes Q&A!

Squidoo: The Tribes Casebook (by Triiibes). This is the first companion ebook the Triiibe put together. Feel free to check it out too if you haven’t already!

My favorite Tribes Q&A posts and link fu so far:

Tribes Q&A Twitterstream (developing even still), and two more if you watch “Triiibe” and “Triiibes” on Twitter Search. A-twitter indeed!


Important Tribes Q&A Corrections

As with any self-organized project with a tight deadline and slightly chaotic beginnings, there are probably a few mistakes in the Tribes Q&A that need to be corrected. I know of one off the bat, and I will list them here as I find out more. Hopefully this will be a good resource for anyone who’s confused or curious about something in particular (and feel free to email me if you know of something I’ve missed).

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