--- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, "[chrisbrogan.com]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Interesting points, Jan, and I appreciate your opinion. Contests do > have a way of picking a winner, which makes them a "zero sum game," as > Covey calls it.
A contest is not necessarily a zero sum game. A content may say there is a winner and a loser. But if there is nothing taken away from the loser, it is just that someone has gained. Zero sum game is where the winner wins by taking away something from the losers. If the "losers" would be in the same situation had the game not existed, then they aren not losing anything when the game happens and they don't get the prize. -- Enric > > What do I value? Participation. I love community when it is positive. > (It's a personal flaw of mine that I don't do negative very well. Yes, > I know discourse is healthy. I am trying to learn how to better manage > it.) > > To me, not as someone from Network2, but just me, participation is > what this means. Is it marketing for Network2? Hell yes. But consider > these two scenarios: > > 1.) Old way: pay people to pretend to be videobloggers. > > 2.) New way: ask videobloggers and producers to make it themselves. > > Recently, Robert Scoble took crap for making a video about Intel. My > very personal opinion is that I'd rather watch Robert's interview than > yet another ad showing a sterile room with flashing neon graphics. > Robert asked questions, showed us things, got a voice. Participation. > > Yes, there's marketing. Yes, there's a competition. But in another > way, it's a chance for a couple hundred people to show themselves, > should they choose to do so. > > Another cool thing about the Internet over traditional broadcasting: > we want to show them all. > > Oh! Important: Steve Elbows mentioned something about negative or > parody ads. I think those are fine, too. Remember the GM thing? Well, > we're not selling a product. We're selling an idea. You want to sh!t > on the idea of watching Internet TV? Cool. Have a blast! You want to > sh!t on Network2, that it's not [good/right/useful/pretty], that's > cool too. That's the best part of this two-way communication medium. > You can raise your voice. > > Will we FEATURE it? Maybe not. But we'll watch it for sure. And you > control the broadcast of it, so you can host it wherever. So, if you > want to post negative or parody, that's okay, too. > > I value participation. That's what was behind PodCamp. That's what's > behind the projects I spend my time on. That's where I go when I'm not > with my family (meetups and the like). > > Hope that helps answer your question. > > --Chris Brogan... > Community Developer > Network2.tv > > --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, "Jan McLaughlin" > <jannie.jan@> wrote: > > > What do you value? >
