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Re: Chasing the magical experience

Mike — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 13:46:46 -0000

Wow, I bet it must have been great.
Mike - the fat burning dude.

Re: Chasing the magical experience

Internovera — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 11:13:15 -0000

I find this really interesting, because, honestly, my interactions on Twitter are much more intimate/ less indiscriminate blast oriented than my interactions on Facebook. Maybe I'm just an abberation? But the way I use Twitter is much more one-on-one.

Re: Chasing the magical experience

Catherine — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 10:42:30 -0000

Thanks for sharing such a wonderful thought of you with us.. These are some of the great moments and memories.. If you meet and feel these magical experiences again don't hesitate to share them with us.. It makes us to feel good..
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Re: Chasing the magical experience

Laurent — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 14:07:39 -0000

Hey Robert,
thanks for bringing up these memories, truly magic moments :) Something really special happened at that time, and I experienced it again last year at Lift Asia, shame you could not come!

This year we will again create a great experience at Lift, this time in Marseille where we are organizing a conference at one of Europe's most spectacular location: the Palais du Pharo. I would be glad to have you with us as usual! Check the pictures, don't tell me you can resist!

http://liftconference.com/n...

See you around soon, I might be coming to California in the very near future!
laurent

Re: Chasing the magical experience

M.J. Parker — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 21:39:38 -0000

See...I don't think people objected to your importing tweets into Facebook because the service is all about "connecting with small groups." They objected because the _ethos_ of Facebook is completely different.

Facebook is about networking with people you already know and showing them what you have become/are becoming, whereas Twitter is about sharing and developing ideas. Both social networking spaces are full of people sharing the latest news, but the idea of what's newsworthy greatly differs between the two. Where Facebook is about personal news and life events, Twitter seems to have developed into much more of an entrepreneurial, collaborative space.

I've certainly gotten that "magical experience" from Twitter, but it's always come about through sharing and building on ideas/interesting turns of phrase/plays on words. Facebook is not the sort of space where that sort of interaction can take place, perhaps because an account on Facebook automatically comes with a set of inescapable preconceptions related to who a person is, in the form of data re: where they come from, where they were educated, where they live now, who they work for, etc.

Re: Chasing the magical experience

frederic sidler — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 15:58:30 -0000

Magical moments come with magical people. You are very lucky to meet so many different people. I'm pretty sure they are not all magical, but you have a greater percentage of chance to meet magical ones that anybody else.

Thank you very much for sharing these ;-)

Re: Chasing the magical experience

J.J. Toothman — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 12:59:44 -0000

Very well said Robert. The best moments are always the most intimate ones.

Hope you're taking Milan with you to the aquarium. Watching the discovery in her eyes will be magical. It looks something like this:
http://tinyurl.com/dlcmwp
and
http://tinyurl.com/ccr5x5

Re: Chasing the magical experience

Mike Duffy — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 12:26:46 -0000

"Our search is for those moments and situations when we are most alive."
-- Christopher Alexander, A Timeless Way of Building

Re: Chasing the magical experience

deborah ager — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 10:00:18 -0000

I want to create magical experiences with poems. I'm reading my poems to a small group at an art studio during my town's "open studio" day. While it won't be as small a four or so people, it will be small. We'll have 10-15 people, which is small for a poetry reading. I'm excited at the possibilities of introducing this person to that person and seeing what magic happens.

Re: Chasing the magical experience

Jo — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 23:20:18 -0000

A nice article - thankyou. I like the idea of creating a "magical experience". We should be experiencing them every day :)

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Czech Mate — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 20:14:09 -0000

Another +1 for the bs detector.

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Andrew — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 19:27:39 -0000

"The point is, that magical experiences in life are — for me at least — those that are small and done with four or so other people."

Which explains why you brag about having so many Facebook friends and Twitter followers? Get your story straight.

Re: Chasing the magical experience

Shane — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 19:23:09 -0000

+1 for Chris Coulter

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Guest — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 18:51:14 -0000

Best post in a while. I read this post while I was holding my 1 year old son in my arms as he slept. I was trying to type without waking him when I realized that Twitter could wait because I don't have this opportunities very often and very soon, I won't be able to hold him in my arms. Thanks for a great post.

Re: Chasing the magical experience

Christopher Coulter — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 16:51:58 -0000

Ultra-Condensed Translation: Contradictory attempts at some semblance of a thought process, but a feeble excuse for high-life techie name dropping. Social networks are best when small except when not. Small, big. Big, small. Big Tweets, lots of Friendfeed friends, I collect Facebook friends in the tens of thousands, but small groups of richie techy-blubber and/or VIP friends work too, I was here, I was there. You weren't. Nah nah nah. Big is great. Small is great. Old friends. New friends. Magic experiences (as long as I'm the center of attention). And the magic is also in small numbers, except when I write a book and invite bloggertards over to my private Quackspace Area 43 parties, then I want big numbers. Real big. Oh, this person invited me over for dinner.

Re: Chasing the magical experience

The Lovable Rogue — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 14:47:36 -0000

A few things sprang to mind when I was reading this post. Firstly, I entirely agree with your comments concerning the power of the small group. As you suggest, there is a very different feel between the engagements of small group and those of larger groups. There are still places for the latter engagement types in my opinion, though whether we can classify these as 'conversation' is something else. Does Ashton Kutcher 'converse' with the 1,000,000+ people following him? I don't think so. There are a lot of people that would get something from his tweets, but in my opinion, this is actually more reminiscent of the one way communications of the old media.

To be honest, i'm quite surprised that marketing guys haven't pushed harder for platforms that encourage engagements between smaller, more focused groups. Highly specific groups would allow for more appropriate targeting of ads. Admittedly, there will be significantly more of these groups as a result of smaller group engagements, but it is more likely that member purchase intentions will be predictable as a result.

TLR

Re: Chasing the magical experience

missrogue — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 10:13:22 -0000

Hey Robert!

I've been in Toronto all week, but I'm really excited that you are getting a book. I love this post, too. I'm a big fan of the magical experience. :)

Re: Chasing the magical experience

ricardo ruvalcaba — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 02:47:28 -0000

Nothing more magic than silently farting in a group meeting or elevator and watching people's reactions. Particularly after eating lots of fiber .

Re: Chasing the magical experience

Herschel — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 22:54:42 -0000

Robert,
I listened to you a while back and started working with Twitter and Friendfeed. I've always like the BLOG format and how it really brings people together one on one.

So I didn't really care about the noise of the micro-blogs. After a few months I realize that I like Twitter because it helps to focus your thoughts. I don't follow a lot of people and I enjoy the experience with the friends I have.

I don't however like the noise I get with Friendfeed and how it flowed over to my Twitter cause I was following you there (all your likes are so overwhelming). So since most of my friends are in the Twitter world I just follow you in the FF world since you seem to start there first anyway. I guess you could say my FF is RFF - robertFF.

Anyway, I agree with you, most great experiences in life come in small settings, with people you can connect with, either online or in person.

I do like Facebook and how it allows you to set parameters with how you get and give information out to new and old friends alike. And with 200 million members we have hit the tipping point that being Geek is Good!

Re: Chasing the magical experience

Jim Helptobiz Mitchell — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 22:29:32 -0000

Hello everyone my name is Jim I have to agree having a child is a magical experience. I've been fortunate to experience this twice. Another magical experience is seeing your vision for your business come to realization.Not only that when well known people see your business and utilize your services.This is always magical to me. Ex.-I've done alot of offline work (non-internet related) for alot of professional athletes. I will never stop looking for more magical moments like this.

Jim

Re: Chasing the magical experience

thisisrand — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 22:24:25 -0000

67°25′S 164°44′E
The magic is to the south.
Remember Giuseppi and Norene.
Rand

Re: Chasing the magical experience

Ron Schott — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 18:32:00 -0000

Regarding birth as a "four" person event. I think you're forgetting to count the star of the show. Without him/her there would be no reason for this gathering.

Re: Chasing the magical experience

Adam Singer — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 17:29:02 -0000

"I’ve seen musicians give concerts to four of my closest friends and then go out and give concerts to thousands of people. I would rather have the small experience EVERY TIME."

Robert - you reading my blog today? We're on the same wavelength :)

Re: Chasing the magical experience

Kennard Balme — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 16:30:24 -0000

A Poem: The Red Wheelbarrow by William Carlos Williams

so much depends
upon

a red wheel
barrow

glazed with rain
water

beside the white
chickens

Re: Chasing the magical experience

Ramiro Marques — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 15:39:37 -0000

Great post! I also prefer Friendfeed and Facebook.