The Big in Japan team in partnership with HD Republic produced a reality television pilot and series (filmed entirely in 1080i HD) called MotorSport Ranch.  “Huh, social media company in the traditional media business” you ask?  Right, we were crazy, but we met lots of great folks in the entertainment business.  How about a traditional media business getting into the social media business?
The 1000 lbs. gorilla in the social networking space is MySpace. Our partners at HD Republic decided to take MySpace into the real world by following three MySpace friends as they travel around the world to meet their MySpace “friends” in a new television series called Project MyWorld.

The show is airing on DIRECTV channel 101 on Monday Nights (lots of other nights too).  Robert and his team had a blast filming the epic tale of three young ladies traveling the globe.  More about Project MyWorld next week after we get the download from the team on the project now that it is complete.

For the past few weeks we have been focused on migrating our servers from suite 2013 (our former data center) into suite 2015 (seen below).  We will be converting the raised floor area of our old facility in suite 2013 into a programming bullpen (seen below the floorplan).  The move has caused interruptions for most of our tools and delayed almost every project.  The expansion of our Podcall service (used primarily for FanCast™) has required us to purchase additional servers and the new facility was required.  Have a look:

Does your Chamber offer proprietary information to members in the form of an email newsletter?  Is your membership excited about getting it each month?  Have you considered making your communication to your members more inclusive?  more social?

During a conversation with a local Chamber we discussed how they might increase the benefit to members by creating a combination email/RSS feed (The Chamber Feed/email) of their information to deliver to members.  Then we suggested that they allow members to insert their own RSS feed into The Chamber Feed/email.  How much more interesting would it be to read information from other members instead of from a single source?  Sounds more like a conversation?  We thought so.  Here are a few ideas:

• Idea #1: Offer a Master Private RSS Feed from all members to all members
• Idea #2: Offer a Master Public RSS Feed from all members to the public
• Idea #3: Host a WordPress MU (multi-user) blog for each member for free
• Idea #4: Create and hosted a Social Podcast (i.e. allow all members to contribute) from all members to the public via iTunes

The ideas are endless, but any association could likely benefit from social interaction via the internet.