I wanted to write about an increasingly interesting subject for me of late, discussing or mentioning personal information on shared networks or open webspace.
I've always been a very open person in my life, too much so people sometimes tell me, but I rather like being that way. It means that you can share your life and let others in to share it with you, building fast connections with people through trust and feeling closer to people through shared knowledge, and personal details. Obviously there's a downside, sometimes (but thankfully very rarely) I have found people judge you on being so open - feeling as if you're after something, or being a scared off if they're a much more closed person. Personally, I think the upside of sharing personal feelings, events and thoughts far outweighs the downside. It's been the foundation of some of my strongest relationships.
So I've been thinking about this in relation to the internet, and social networks and communities. It's like another step along the scale of being open, as not only are you sharing your thoughts and personal information with your friends and would be friends, but complete strangers too. Also, these thoughts are written down, or captured somehow in order for them to be passed into the network. So it's not just hearsay anymore, it's hard written/photographed/recorded fact. Makes it seem so much more important to really think about what you're "saying" in your networks, and how you "say" it. Once it's out there, it's out there!
Are you happy for everyone to know this thing, now and forever? In a world where socialising increasingly happens online and in game, I think it's a question that people will come across sooner or later. How will you deal with it?
To look at what I mean with a real life example: I am pregnant :-) Horay! It is very exciting, and I have been wanting to Twitter my feelings and pregnancy-related-what-I'm-up-to's for the last 3 months, but didn't due to the usual 12 week caveat that comes with being pregnant.
However, at the same time I knew I wanted to mention it when I got to the 12 week safer point (ie, now) but I couldn't work out how, and if I should. I asked a few people and they were the same as me - yes mention it, but what if you loose the baby? Being pregnant is obviously very personal but the happiness and excitement it brings is contagious, people seem to love knowing about a new addition in my short experience, whereas talking about loosing a baby seems infinately more personal and somehow out of bounds. Most likely because it's so rarely talked about as it's such a painful experience, and people would just rather not think about it or know it happens. Sharing bad events just seems harder to me, perhaps this comes back to my use of social media tools as a sort of Thayer PR, a happy place where everything is fun and happy. I only talk about fun bits of jobs, not the bits I hate, and I don't mention depression, just excitement.
Eventually after thinking about it long and hard I settled on this post, a true reflection of the confusion I've felt surrounding how much info to put out there in particular about my pregnancy. That way you know it's been put out there with a lot of thought, and hopefully some of you will share your thoughts on how much of your private life you share on networks that have started off professional and ended up being more personal, with the odd added stranger in there too!
I'd love to hear anyone else who's been through a personal situation and chosen to either discuss it or not, and if you did mention/discuss personal what was the fallout? Were you glad you did or did it bite you on the bum? All your thoughts on why you do or don't share personal life events would be really glady received whilst I work out where I stand on it all.
Overall, I feel like I want to share my life, just as I've done face to face, but a part of me just can't help feeling there's something out there that should mean I shouldn't... We shall see!
I've always been a very open person in my life, too much so people sometimes tell me, but I rather like being that way. It means that you can share your life and let others in to share it with you, building fast connections with people through trust and feeling closer to people through shared knowledge, and personal details. Obviously there's a downside, sometimes (but thankfully very rarely) I have found people judge you on being so open - feeling as if you're after something, or being a scared off if they're a much more closed person. Personally, I think the upside of sharing personal feelings, events and thoughts far outweighs the downside. It's been the foundation of some of my strongest relationships.
So I've been thinking about this in relation to the internet, and social networks and communities. It's like another step along the scale of being open, as not only are you sharing your thoughts and personal information with your friends and would be friends, but complete strangers too. Also, these thoughts are written down, or captured somehow in order for them to be passed into the network. So it's not just hearsay anymore, it's hard written/photographed/recorded fact. Makes it seem so much more important to really think about what you're "saying" in your networks, and how you "say" it. Once it's out there, it's out there!
Are you happy for everyone to know this thing, now and forever? In a world where socialising increasingly happens online and in game, I think it's a question that people will come across sooner or later. How will you deal with it?
To look at what I mean with a real life example: I am pregnant :-) Horay! It is very exciting, and I have been wanting to Twitter my feelings and pregnancy-related-what-I'm-up-to's for the last 3 months, but didn't due to the usual 12 week caveat that comes with being pregnant.
However, at the same time I knew I wanted to mention it when I got to the 12 week safer point (ie, now) but I couldn't work out how, and if I should. I asked a few people and they were the same as me - yes mention it, but what if you loose the baby? Being pregnant is obviously very personal but the happiness and excitement it brings is contagious, people seem to love knowing about a new addition in my short experience, whereas talking about loosing a baby seems infinately more personal and somehow out of bounds. Most likely because it's so rarely talked about as it's such a painful experience, and people would just rather not think about it or know it happens. Sharing bad events just seems harder to me, perhaps this comes back to my use of social media tools as a sort of Thayer PR, a happy place where everything is fun and happy. I only talk about fun bits of jobs, not the bits I hate, and I don't mention depression, just excitement.
Eventually after thinking about it long and hard I settled on this post, a true reflection of the confusion I've felt surrounding how much info to put out there in particular about my pregnancy. That way you know it's been put out there with a lot of thought, and hopefully some of you will share your thoughts on how much of your private life you share on networks that have started off professional and ended up being more personal, with the odd added stranger in there too!
I'd love to hear anyone else who's been through a personal situation and chosen to either discuss it or not, and if you did mention/discuss personal what was the fallout? Were you glad you did or did it bite you on the bum? All your thoughts on why you do or don't share personal life events would be really glady received whilst I work out where I stand on it all.
Overall, I feel like I want to share my life, just as I've done face to face, but a part of me just can't help feeling there's something out there that should mean I shouldn't... We shall see!
I've been motivated to write an update off the back of Jason Calacanis adding me to his Twitter feed. At first, I was quite chuffed, "ooo" I thought, "Jason Calacanis wants to know what I'm up to, how exciting". Ooooh no he doesn't, as I realised upon clicking through to check out his Twitter page. He's link baiting me. Hang on a minute, isn't that a spammer tactic...?
And he's not the only one, there's a whole bunch of them at it. What a load of cobblers.
Surely I can't be the only person who's worked out that it's not how many people follow you, but what you ratio of followers to following is that ranks you as an interesting and popular Tweeter?
If I see someone has got a 1:1 ratio, I can assume that they use Twitter with their close friends, and tend to follow people that also follow them. It's not water tight, but it's a fairly good hypothesis. Similarly, if I get followed by a user who follows more people than is followed by, I can assume that actually they're probably quite interesting, but depending on how high the number differential is, they're not as interesting as their group. Afterall, their group would follow them back otherwise, no? This extends right out to the people following thousands, and being followed by maybe 10. These people I avoid following like the plague.
So, Jason Calacanis with his 17,204 followers just doesn't impress me. He's following 12,302. that makes his ratio a rather limp 1:1.5 give or take. Even if I was to follow him, it's going to be a one way relationship isn't it. There's no way my Tweets are going to make it through his 17,204 at least daily updates on average (I'm guessing here).
Check out someone like Mike Butcher on the other hand, with his 1,103 followers to 335 followings, and you've got a 1:3. I know immediately he must have some really interesting Twitter chat going on. Also, you know that at 335 people Mike is actually following people he wants to know about. Whereas what buy in would I get from a Twitter baiter? None at all.
Final thought aka Thayer Rant: When will people realise the value of social media - especially the so called experts in these fields - it is not about quantity of information or network, it's about quality.
If you're all about the quantity, then you're not a social media mogul, you're an e-marketeer at best, and a spammer at worst. Nobody cares if you're being followed by 17,000 people if you've bribed them with a prize, or offered them sudo friendship. It doesn't mean you're popular, it just means you're desperate, or selling something, or both.
As always, these are my views, and I know that some people won't agree with them.
And he's not the only one, there's a whole bunch of them at it. What a load of cobblers.
Surely I can't be the only person who's worked out that it's not how many people follow you, but what you ratio of followers to following is that ranks you as an interesting and popular Tweeter?
If I see someone has got a 1:1 ratio, I can assume that they use Twitter with their close friends, and tend to follow people that also follow them. It's not water tight, but it's a fairly good hypothesis. Similarly, if I get followed by a user who follows more people than is followed by, I can assume that actually they're probably quite interesting, but depending on how high the number differential is, they're not as interesting as their group. Afterall, their group would follow them back otherwise, no? This extends right out to the people following thousands, and being followed by maybe 10. These people I avoid following like the plague.
So, Jason Calacanis with his 17,204 followers just doesn't impress me. He's following 12,302. that makes his ratio a rather limp 1:1.5 give or take. Even if I was to follow him, it's going to be a one way relationship isn't it. There's no way my Tweets are going to make it through his 17,204 at least daily updates on average (I'm guessing here).
Check out someone like Mike Butcher on the other hand, with his 1,103 followers to 335 followings, and you've got a 1:3. I know immediately he must have some really interesting Twitter chat going on. Also, you know that at 335 people Mike is actually following people he wants to know about. Whereas what buy in would I get from a Twitter baiter? None at all.
Final thought aka Thayer Rant: When will people realise the value of social media - especially the so called experts in these fields - it is not about quantity of information or network, it's about quality.
If you're all about the quantity, then you're not a social media mogul, you're an e-marketeer at best, and a spammer at worst. Nobody cares if you're being followed by 17,000 people if you've bribed them with a prize, or offered them sudo friendship. It doesn't mean you're popular, it just means you're desperate, or selling something, or both.
As always, these are my views, and I know that some people won't agree with them.
I just received an email this morning from Mike Atherton leading me to this page - Sunderland Universities weblog homework.
I'm listed as a blog that should be read and discused?! I am both honoured and amused in equal measure. Thanks to Tony Nicholson for taking my blogs on, and giving this comment:
Cool, huh?! :)
Thanks Tony!
It's an apt reminder that everything you do and say online is likely to be studied and scrutinised at some stage. It's also reminded me that it's important to bring a mix of not just what you want to write, but what's interesting to the table.
Have a read of the post, and the findings of the other students too, it's very insightful.
I'm listed as a blog that should be read and discused?! I am both honoured and amused in equal measure. Thanks to Tony Nicholson for taking my blogs on, and giving this comment:
I went on Thayer Driver's blog (thayer18.livejournal.com) and found the mix of professional and personal quite interesting. At first I was quite sceptical if it would work or not, but as I read on the interesting mix proved a good interaction for her social networking friends. The first ever social networking Mexican Wave hade 15 comments in the last five minutes and her other blogs enabled her to promote the chinwag work that she does. It is important to create a good relationship with fellow proffessionals so I think if I ever get a professional working blog going I will do the same mix... but perhaps not as extreme!
Cool, huh?! :)
Thanks Tony!
It's an apt reminder that everything you do and say online is likely to be studied and scrutinised at some stage. It's also reminded me that it's important to bring a mix of not just what you want to write, but what's interesting to the table.
Have a read of the post, and the findings of the other students too, it's very insightful.
It worked! This pleases me greatly. Thank you everyone for indulging me. The super cool thing is it is carrying on whilst I write this, and even people I haven't heard of are @Thayer Mexican Waving :-D
[UPDATE: Thanks to t1mmyb pointing this out - a live link to who's been waving]
Check it out (the early wavers) - read bottom up:
UPDATE wavers:
And thanks to the wavers not in my Twitter stream:
http://twitter.com/benrmatthews
http://twitter.com/almosttwitty
http://twitter.com/bealers
http://twitter.com/t1mmyb
And my reply stream looks pretty funny too - check it out :)
http://flickr.com/photos/thayer18/231152
[UPDATE: Thanks to t1mmyb pointing this out - a live link to who's been waving]
Check it out (the early wavers) - read bottom up:
UPDATE wavers:
And thanks to the wavers not in my Twitter stream:
http://twitter.com/benrmatthews
http://twitter.com/almosttwitty
http://twitter.com/bealers
http://twitter.com/t1mmyb
And my reply stream looks pretty funny too - check it out :)
http://flickr.com/photos/thayer18/231152
Ok, so this is a bit of an odd post to do, but what the hey. I talk about Twitter and social media far too much, so for a change let's go Swimming in the Sea Of Me as my very good friend Sam Michel likes to call it.
Dan Hon tagged me in his post Eight Random Things About Me. I only just found out about this from a tardy Google Alert but it seems fun so why the heck not :)
I tag:
Wow, I really need to start knowing more women who do personal blogs!!
EDIT: Also, rules are meant to be broken right? I tag two more people:
Dan Hon tagged me in his post Eight Random Things About Me. I only just found out about this from a tardy Google Alert but it seems fun so why the heck not :)
- I speak really bad but passable French and Greek, along with a few words of Japanese, Arabic and South African.
- I actually meant to be an artist (oils and fabric, if you're interested), but decided that the Internet thing would probably take off and make me more money.
- I can play the guitar, clarinet, piano, all the recorder family and get a note out of a sax and a flute. All pretty badly.
- I have cooked properly since I was about 14, it is still my most enjoyable and fulfilling hobby.
- I had long blonde hair all my life until I cut it off and dyed it brown in November 2005.
- I left home a week after my 16th birthday to start a new life on my own, in a different country from my family.
- I have no academic qualifications after my GCSEs.
- Until 2 weeks ago, I had never owned a single product or service by Apple.
I tag:
Wow, I really need to start knowing more women who do personal blogs!!
EDIT: Also, rules are meant to be broken right? I tag two more people:
Blimey, I actually did it, huzzah! Thanks to the wonderful Chinwag for letting me use their servers to host. 
You can download the report here:
Twitter Survey Report: Feb 2008
Please feel free to send on the report and data, and use it however you wish. All I ask is that you credit me somewhere suitable. Many thanks.
I hope you enjoy it, and here's a sneaky peak:
Thanks to everyone who took part, and passed this round their Twitter stream.
UPDATE - Blogs that are talking about the survey
I'm tracking these via Google Alerts, so if you've done a post and it's not here, just say and I'll add it. Good to see everyone's views on it :-)
You can download the report here:
Twitter Survey Report: Feb 2008
Please feel free to send on the report and data, and use it however you wish. All I ask is that you credit me somewhere suitable. Many thanks.
I hope you enjoy it, and here's a sneaky peak:
- People mainly use Twitter mostly to see what their contacts are up to (50.6%).
- Most respondents to this survey are followed by twice the amount of people (101-200 followers) than they follow themselves (51-100 followers).
- You’re most likely to become un-followed if your Tweets aren’t deemed relevant to your followers
- Half the respondents (48.5%) had Twittered drunk…
- … Yet thankfully most people (65.7%) have never regretted a Twitter post
Thanks to everyone who took part, and passed this round their Twitter stream.
UPDATE - Blogs that are talking about the survey
I'm tracking these via Google Alerts, so if you've done a post and it's not here, just say and I'll add it. Good to see everyone's views on it :-)
Last night I cut down the amount of people I follow. I do this about once a month, after adding people throughout the month. It's something I've always done, and interestingly, every time I do it - it's something that has always caused some grumpiness from a few of those who I stop following.
I don't get this at all. If I stop following you, you are still my friend. This doesn't terminate our relationship, or mean that in any way I like you less. It just means that for now there are other people I am watching who I want to appear in my feed more often. If I follow over 80, in particular when I get close to 100, I find it very hard to track my real life close friends - you know, the ones I know personally, go drinking with etc. So I chop back a bit.
That's not to say I only follow people who are my close personal friends, as that's not true, but I do only follow people that aren't close personal friends if I find what they tweet about very interesting. Not just "not boring" but actually really interesting.
To give you an idea of what I mean, I've had emails from people questioning why I no longer follow them, and then getting grumpy when I tell them. This morning I noticed a Twitter from Paul Walsh:
Do people actually keep count of those following them that closely? It might just be me, but that sounds like, "Thayer deleted me, I'm going to delete her" - it's a bit playground. The word culling seems a bit harsh too - from Dictionary.com:
My personal thoughts are: follow people because they're interesting, and because you enjoy reading their Twitters for whatever reason, don't just follow people so they follow you back, or to proove your mates. That is just silly.
Oh, and by the way - I track "thayer" to my mobile via Twitter, so if I don't follow someone and they talk to me I can still talk back. It just means that I can have a good clean feed that directly shows me the people I want to know about at that moment. Also, I tend to follow and unfollow people frequently, so don't be surprised if I follow you on and off depending on where you are and what you do. I also read feeds of those I don't follow when I get time and want to see what they've been up to.
A closing thought that I saw on Ben Metcalfe's Twitter the other day:
Exactly! And why should Ben have to follow someone just because they're following him?! Aha - it's because sexyseo uses Twitter completely differently from anyone I know:
So, it just goes to show, one persons Twitter does definitely not equal anothers.
Anybody else had any experience of this, either as a deleted followee who's narked or perhaps you have run into trouble by stopping following people yourself?
I don't get this at all. If I stop following you, you are still my friend. This doesn't terminate our relationship, or mean that in any way I like you less. It just means that for now there are other people I am watching who I want to appear in my feed more often. If I follow over 80, in particular when I get close to 100, I find it very hard to track my real life close friends - you know, the ones I know personally, go drinking with etc. So I chop back a bit.
That's not to say I only follow people who are my close personal friends, as that's not true, but I do only follow people that aren't close personal friends if I find what they tweet about very interesting. Not just "not boring" but actually really interesting.
To give you an idea of what I mean, I've had emails from people questioning why I no longer follow them, and then getting grumpy when I tell them. This morning I noticed a Twitter from Paul Walsh:
@thayer reduces her no of feeds and my followers go from 606 to 605. Must do a little culling myself.
Do people actually keep count of those following them that closely? It might just be me, but that sounds like, "Thayer deleted me, I'm going to delete her" - it's a bit playground. The word culling seems a bit harsh too - from Dictionary.com:
CULL n. Something picked out from others, especially something rejected because of inferior quality.
My personal thoughts are: follow people because they're interesting, and because you enjoy reading their Twitters for whatever reason, don't just follow people so they follow you back, or to proove your mates. That is just silly.
Oh, and by the way - I track "thayer" to my mobile via Twitter, so if I don't follow someone and they talk to me I can still talk back. It just means that I can have a good clean feed that directly shows me the people I want to know about at that moment. Also, I tend to follow and unfollow people frequently, so don't be surprised if I follow you on and off depending on where you are and what you do. I also read feeds of those I don't follow when I get time and want to see what they've been up to.
A closing thought that I saw on Ben Metcalfe's Twitter the other day:
@sexyseo sure, I'll add u. But if I followed everyone who followed me I'd be drowned in tweets as I have 750+ followers. My blackberry would melt!
Exactly! And why should Ben have to follow someone just because they're following him?! Aha - it's because sexyseo uses Twitter completely differently from anyone I know:
Time to clean up my Twitter. Who do not follow me, you will be left behind ;)
So, it just goes to show, one persons Twitter does definitely not equal anothers.
Anybody else had any experience of this, either as a deleted followee who's narked or perhaps you have run into trouble by stopping following people yourself?
Okay, so I feel bad. I promised results by today, and it isn't going to happen. There are two reasons for this in my defense, m'lud.
<hangs head in shame and shuffles off />
- I have a family visit tomorrow until Friday. Not just any family visit, but my: sister, her son, her husband and my Mum. This is a lot of family to visit, considering it's the first time I've ever entertained family in London. Eek. Send me good luck vibes. I'm slightly scared about how completely square and nerdy I am going to appear to my 8 year old nephew. He's probably already on web 5.9 and played all the games I own on the hardest levels. I think family is a fairly decent excuse as to not getting my homework done on time - I mean, it's not like my cat ate it, or anything. Did you, Spitz?
- I met a very interesting chap today, mister Richard Nevins from Tipped. He's doing some really interesting research into microbragging. He also gave me a dissertation on Twitter that I would rather like to use parts of for the Twitter survey report - add a bit of meat to its bones, perhaps. Richard has also said he'll be happy to get involved in the next Twitter survey - and he's super academic and brainy, so it will be way better than the finger in the air job I did.
<hangs head in shame and shuffles off />
Something that's really been narking me for some time now, is the lack of name variability on the web, and in particular on social or community sites.
When I first registered on Facebook, it really brought it home to me. My networks before then had been purely professional, so I only needed to use my current name. I emailed the support and asked how I could incorporate my maiden name (I'm divorced, and Driver was my married name). They said there was no way around this, other than to call myself Thayer Chappell Driver. Which does rather suck somewhat. I would also hazard a guess that this would mess up search results for Thayer Driver, seeing as how they clearly haven't thought about how to incorporate previous names.
So my problem is thus: I was Thayer Chappell until I was 23, and then I got married and became Thayer Driver. During my marriage my career took off quite nicely, and so in London I am known more as Thayer Driver, than Thayer Chappell. However, everyone I went to school with, worked with or indeed knew pre-marriage and subsequently lost touch with (as you do) wouldn't know me as Thayer Driver.
I guess I am luckier than most; you don't meet too many Thayer's - so if you tie some of my geeky interests and photos with the Thayer part, you could probably work out it's me.
Another angle is I know at least two people who have been kind enough to share with me their current name is not the name they were born with. These are both males, who chose to change their first names for personal reasons in their late teens. Like me, they wouldn't want to have their birth name, plus their chosen name on such sites - but people from school, and anyone else from before they decided to change their names wouldn't know it was them.
Seems to me like a massive oversight from these sites, I don't know of a single one that allows you to be found through metadata or any other clever means of past names. When you think about all the women whose names have changed through marriage and divorce, possibly multiple times, that is a *lot* of the population. Then add on all the people who choose to change their name for their own reasons, and you're suddenly left with a startling number who the social web is actually pretty broken for.
I'd be really interested to hear if anyone is developing a service that incorporates personal metadata that can be searched on but not displayed, and also anyone else that's either found this to be a problem. Maybe you've even found a way around it? I'd love to know :)
Is this the fallout from lack of user testing across the real social landscape? I often find in my own experience that social services aren't being built or tested with a variety of typical social users. Perhaps this is a symptom?
Perhaps there is a service just dying to be built here, where you can register your current and past names and places of work. Then you associate that with your openId and it slots onto all the social networks. If you want to build this please feel free. I'll be happy with just a a coffee and a credit ;)
When I first registered on Facebook, it really brought it home to me. My networks before then had been purely professional, so I only needed to use my current name. I emailed the support and asked how I could incorporate my maiden name (I'm divorced, and Driver was my married name). They said there was no way around this, other than to call myself Thayer Chappell Driver. Which does rather suck somewhat. I would also hazard a guess that this would mess up search results for Thayer Driver, seeing as how they clearly haven't thought about how to incorporate previous names.
So my problem is thus: I was Thayer Chappell until I was 23, and then I got married and became Thayer Driver. During my marriage my career took off quite nicely, and so in London I am known more as Thayer Driver, than Thayer Chappell. However, everyone I went to school with, worked with or indeed knew pre-marriage and subsequently lost touch with (as you do) wouldn't know me as Thayer Driver.
I guess I am luckier than most; you don't meet too many Thayer's - so if you tie some of my geeky interests and photos with the Thayer part, you could probably work out it's me.
Another angle is I know at least two people who have been kind enough to share with me their current name is not the name they were born with. These are both males, who chose to change their first names for personal reasons in their late teens. Like me, they wouldn't want to have their birth name, plus their chosen name on such sites - but people from school, and anyone else from before they decided to change their names wouldn't know it was them.
Seems to me like a massive oversight from these sites, I don't know of a single one that allows you to be found through metadata or any other clever means of past names. When you think about all the women whose names have changed through marriage and divorce, possibly multiple times, that is a *lot* of the population. Then add on all the people who choose to change their name for their own reasons, and you're suddenly left with a startling number who the social web is actually pretty broken for.
I'd be really interested to hear if anyone is developing a service that incorporates personal metadata that can be searched on but not displayed, and also anyone else that's either found this to be a problem. Maybe you've even found a way around it? I'd love to know :)
Is this the fallout from lack of user testing across the real social landscape? I often find in my own experience that social services aren't being built or tested with a variety of typical social users. Perhaps this is a symptom?
Perhaps there is a service just dying to be built here, where you can register your current and past names and places of work. Then you associate that with your openId and it slots onto all the social networks. If you want to build this please feel free. I'll be happy with just a a coffee and a credit ;)
As Mike Butcher announced today on TechCrunch UK - I've got another new consultancy gig! I'm very proud to be working with TechCrunch and partners to bring some really exciting technically focussed events to the UK and also across Europe.
Mike says:
So there you go! What he said ;-)
Please do drop me a line if you're interested to hear more about what we're going to be doing, and if you have any ideas or would like to be involved.
Mike says:
Plenty of people have been wondering when we’d start running some TechCrunch events on this side of the pond. But attempting to run a full-time news blog and run events at the same time is a recipe for chaos. So I’m delighted to say that TechCrunch UK & Ireland is going to be working with Thayer Driver as our Events & Sponsorship Consultant. One of the first things we’ll be working on together is a decent-sized TechCrunch event for the Summer, while looking at other opportunities in the meantime to bring our community of readers together. Thayer will be exploring commercial opportunities for TechCrunch events both in the UK, Ireland and, potentially, other European centres. She can be reached on thayer.driver[AT]gmail.com (LinkedIn page) and here is a little more information about her. Oh, and, unlike most events people I know, she can also build objects in Second Life.
So there you go! What he said ;-)
Please do drop me a line if you're interested to hear more about what we're going to be doing, and if you have any ideas or would like to be involved.
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