BarCamp attendees in the MemphisConnect.com BlogHaus

With today’s Core Conversation podcast, we’re tackling BarCamp with a start/stop/keep format. Let us know what was missing, what needs to go away, and what worked for you.

At our usual Core Conversation time (11:30 a.m. Central) we’ll be available to hear your thoughts on how we can make the next “camp” experience the best it can possibly be. You can listen to the entire podcast live or later here, or dive in and let us know what you think by calling (646) 721-9429.

Carrie Corbett, Matthew Crawford Trisler, Elizabeth Cawein, Tania Castroverde Moskalenko, and Dave Barger

As we’re approaching Thanksgiving, we’re finding it hard to shake the feeling that the year is disappearing faster than we can come to a consensus about what we’ll be calling next year.

Even November is more than halfway through – the midpoint being marked by BarCamp Memphis. Even mid-November is bookended by tomorrow’s Core Conversation call-in podcast, wherein we’ll be hosting a BarCamp Memphis – oriented Feedback Friday. We’d love for the next BarCamp to be even better – and we need your help to make that happen.

It seems that Bebo, the social network popular in the UK, is improving themselves, too, by including a button to report abuse – not for spam, but for trolls and bullies.

Facebook is similarly trying to improve themselves, but with some tweaks to the options available to advertisers – but in a way that may ruffle a few feathers.

Our feelings about Twitter’s new built-in retweeting function are similarly mixed.

Mpact Memphis, however, is unassailably positive. No qualms here about saying that we like them. That’s why they’re our Memphis Tweeter of the Week.

We sat down with The Germantown Performing Arts Centre‘s Carrie Corbett and Tania Castroverde Moskalenko to talk with them about their social efforts, and how they use Facebook in the everyday life of the organization.

As always, you can download the podcast here, subscribe in iTunes, or click the play button below to listen on this page.

At our usual Core Conversation time (11:30 a.m. Central) we’ll be available to hear your thoughts on how we can make the next “camp” experience the best it can possibly be. You can listen to the entire podcast here, or dive in and let us know what you think by calling (646) 721-9429.

We’ll talk to you on Friday!

"to Spit or to Suggest?" by Artiii on Flickr

They’re great ways to find new and interesting people to follow, but we’ve also noticed things like #twitterrules entering the trending topics.

Every once in a while, we all to pull someone aside and say, “hey, I don’t like it when you tweet fifteen times in five minutes about meaningless things.”

We’d like to provide a safe place to do that. We’d like to create an environment where everyone who uses Twitter or other services can get some friendly coaching.

Which is why we’re reclaiming #ff in the name of #FeedbackFriday. We’ll be hosting a call-in show via BlogTalkRadio from 11:30-12:30 today where you can call in and air your grievances.

Give us a shout at (347) 857-2345.

Download the podcast to hear that conversation and so much more, including: hash browns. Mmmm.

"IMG_0348" by Joelogon on Twitter

In this episode:

• Social Business: Business is becoming increasingly transparent, where once it was isolated. We talk about David Armano’s recent presentation about social business, and how every aspect of business is becoming more a matter of collaboration rather than heroics.

• SocialMemphis: We spotlight MIFA’s “Something Good in Memphis” campaign, which focuses on people who do good things in and around Memphis and promotes their actions and efforts though social media. Learn more about our SocialMemphis project on Twitter and Facebook.

• We talk with Dana Lewis, a healthcare communications consultant (and University of Alabama senior), who started the #hcsm hashtag for an ongoing, worldwide chat about healthcare communications and social media. Every Sunday at 8 p.m. Central time, she posts topics for group discussion and then participates both from her own Twitter account, and from @healthsocmed.

• Hashtags: we talk about what they are, how they work, and ones we use, including #smexp and #barcampmem.

• Upcoming Events: It’s a busy fall here at the Social Expedition, including two events Friday: the inaugural Feedback Friday and a tweetup before a showing of “Where the Wild Things Are.”

• As we wind things down, we offer our condolences to those who have not yet received Google Wave invitations, and talk about the methodology for keeping the beta testing so limited.

We also mentioned some tools that people use to follow the #hcsm conversation:

• search.twitter.com
• TweetChat
• TweetGrid
• Twitter Web (which is just another name for Twitter.com)
• TweetDeck

Feedback Friday from LunaWeb on Vimeo.

Do you have one of those people on your Twitter feed who only ever tweets about having a bad day? Or stuff going wrong? Or maybe one of those people whose every tweet is a hardly legible string of @ symbols and Twitter handles and long, unruly hyperlinks? Or perhaps someone on your list commits the greatest crime of them all – answering literally the question “What are you doing?”

Wouldn’t you like to tell them that you don’t care?

We don’t claim to be Twitter experts. In fact, that’s kind of the point of this whole expedition thing – we’re all figuring it out and exploring social media together. And with that in mind, we think there’s a more constructive use of our Fridays than just another long list of Twitter handles of people whose only commonality may be that you follow them. So we’re going to reclaim the #ff and transform it from “follow Friday” to “feedback Friday.”

We think there’s a more constructive use of our Fridays than just listing people we follow. Feedback Friday.

During the week, post a tweet when you see things that make you crazy. Then on Friday, let your followers know that you’re willing to hear some feedback on your social media presence. If you want it, say you do, and commit to give constructive feedback to at least two people. Then tweet that you gave feedback to a friend as part of #feedbackfriday and let’s see if we can make the trend of becoming better Tweeters catch on.

To really get the ball rolling, we’ll be hosting a PodCast on Friday to talk about the concept and the ideas behind it. It’ll be a call in show on Blog Talk Radio so we’ll want to hear your thoughts, too.