Susan Gordon & Beth Kanter, originally uploaded by Craigslist Foundation.
Photo by Jon Bauer
Over the weekend at Podcamp Boston 4 (which sadly I was unable attend because I moved from Boston), I caught a tweet from colleague Chris Abraham coining a term called "Reputation Dysmorphic Disorder." It's when people don't like to share their own work for fear of being called a self-promoter. Chris thinks that people with this disorder should get over it because it means that their colleagues are missing out on them sharing their ideas/work.
I wasn't going to write about this on my blog but decided to take Chris's advice.
In June, I had the pleasure of co-presenting a session called How To Think Like A Social Media Marketing Genius at Craigslist Nonprofit Bootcamp with Susan Gordon from Causes. (My live blog posts here). We posed for this photo after the session.
Susan is much taller than I am, you can't really see it in the photo. It must have been striking to see us on the stage from the audience because some of the evaluation comments came back as "The short one ..." "The tall one ..." One pattern that was interesting is that negative comments referred to us in that way, while positive ones used our names.
The podcast from our session can the Craigslist Foundation site and our slides can be found here. With enough time, I could actually make a audio version on slideshare.
David Lapiana also did an interesting video project at Craigslist Bootcamp. They did a series of video interviews asking folks what the nonprofit of the future might look like. You'll find these interviews on David's YouTube Channel. My interview is here.
Over the weekend, I got to meet Craig Newmark at transparency camp. Jake Brewer was kind enough to snap this photo.
Beth, glad you got over your 'RDD' enough to leave these links behind for those of us who couldn't make the Bootcamp this year! Can't wait to check 'em out! (I thoroughly enjoyed it the year prior, but you guys look like you're having a lot more fun)
p.s. If we ever present together, be prepared for 'the tall one/short one' bit all over again; even if they used our names we'd sound like Louisa May Alcott's Little Women ;-)
Hope to see you soon now that you're HERE! --Amy
Posted by: Shaping Youth | August 11, 2009 at 12:42 AM
Amy, well, at least they didn't say the "thin one" and "the fat one" ;-) I hope someday that we get a chance to work together - and now that we're on the same coast - that is a possibility! Maybe in 2010
Posted by: Beth Kanter | August 11, 2009 at 11:20 AM