Comments on: Tom Sawyer, whitewashing fences, and building communities online

By: How to really help the communities your brand interacts with « Dark Matter Matters

Fri, 07 Oct 2011 16:09:37 +0000

[...] selfishly about what they want to get the communities to buy from or do for them (what I call Tom Sawyer thinking) and start thinking about what assets they bring to the table that could create real value for [...]

By: How to build a open source community | Official Blog of Kevin Media

How to build a open source community | Official Blog of Kevin Media — Wed, 12 Jan 2011 13:19:51 +0000

[...] to arrive overnight when they release software they’ve developed. Chris Grams once described the Tom Sawyer model of community engagement – companies who expect other people to do their job for them. Make sure you don’t fall into [...]

By: Open Source community building: a guide to getting it right | VisionMobile :: blog

Wed, 05 Jan 2011 16:43:34 +0000

By: Top 10 Dark Matter Matters posts of 2009 « Dark Matter Matters

Top 10 Dark Matter Matters posts of 2009 « Dark Matter Matters — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 16:39:41 +0000

[...] Tom Sawyer, whitewashing fences, and building communities online: Written in September, this post was the first in a series about community-building where I talk about the difference between creating communities to do your work for you and being a humble member of a community larger than just you. [...]

By: Dave Neary: The trough of disillusionment for Ubuntu? | Full-Linux.com

Dave Neary: The trough of disillusionment for Ubuntu? | Full-Linux.com — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 07:08:56 +0000

[...] time now – but unfortunately it’s not as easy as asking upstream to get their act together in a Tom Sawyer community model. It seems like an ideal opportunity for collaboration between distributions and upstream projects, [...]

By: Safe as Milk » Blog Archive » The trough of disillusionment for Ubuntu?

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 13:53:24 +0000

[...] – but unfortunately it’s not as easy as asking upstream to get their act together in a Tom Sawyer community model. It seems like an ideal opportunity for collaboration between distributions and upstream projects, [...]

By: Maslow’s hierarchy of (community) needs « Dark Matter Matters

Maslow’s hierarchy of (community) needs « Dark Matter Matters — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 01:32:18 +0000

[...] in developing corporate community strategies (see my two posts about Tom Sawyer community-building here and here and Chris Brogan’s writeup [...]

By: Tom Sawyer Part 2: where can your company pitch in? « Dark Matter Matters

Tom Sawyer Part 2: where can your company pitch in? « Dark Matter Matters — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 23:05:06 +0000

[...] Starbucks, The White House, Tom Sawyer, whitewashing A few weeks ago I wrote a post called Tom Sawyer, whitewashing fences, and building communities online, where I outlined one of the biggest mistakes I see companies make when figuring out their [...]

By: The difference between collaboration and clobberation « Dark Matter Matters

The difference between collaboration and clobberation « Dark Matter Matters — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 21:24:36 +0000

[...] with you, consider asking yourself if you are the clobberator. If you are in the habit of always trying to get others to paint your fences for you, you are a clobberator. If you find the ideas of others to rarely be as good as your own, you are a [...]

By: Small Powerful Words » Become eVOLVE'd

Small Powerful Words » Become eVOLVE'd — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 00:16:54 +0000

[...] from GE headquarters the other day with my head full of thoughts. First, I’m going to mention Chris Grams, from Red Hat, who stuffed my head up almost to the top. He talked about the importance of [...]