Day 8: 8 is Great

Spirit of cooperation in 30DC is sublime.

Team growth has been exponential with the 2 mergers.

Tag Tsunami on the way.

Learn the ropes, Link Love is waiting for you...

Paul


The hyper connected world of X'ers.

Day 7: Will be Heaven

Hit the Xtreme facebook site and invest yr 11 minutes... lots of great people doing Web 2.0...
Xtreme on Facebook

30DC Xtreme Freefall...attempting entry...Planet 2.0

Day 6 Monday.06Aug07 AM Xtreme Post: Enlighten me u say...

Only you can enlighten yourself...

Okay, sure, why not. I'll switch on a light in the open concept room...

Web 1.0 was static.

Web 2.0 is dynamic & beyond.

W2 is like life itself(getting there)... point being, life is about particpation really, sans all the unearthly distractions. I have a high performance sport coaching background and I wanted to merge this with a new type of open team, nonteam , anti-team, uberteam, superteam, equalteam, web2.0team, concept-team, where the membership or players/athletes (us/humans) really coached ourselves by, you guessed it, by participating. my job as a coach/mentor/friend/member then becomes to encourage participation.

So we can do intervals, plyometrics and calculate rest to work ratios, or we can give each other hope, confidence & courage. You can't here me blow a whistle on the net anyway... well not yet (shhhh, possible niche market...please eat this blog after reading)

that's it in a 'net'shell...

Listening to "I don't like Mondays" by the Boomtown Rats...

twitter: thinking about Hiroshima...

Day 5: Surfing Speed Bumps on Planet 2.0

Tm X continues to experience substantial growth. Temporarily lost one member, myself, due to a complaint about my sig file and my habit of including a link to the Tm X FB site, which FB considers to be a form of spam ... as one member stated, "Bizarre."

Most of us feel we are wandering, sometimes aimlessly, through the webverse. Remember everyone, and I mean everyone is learning. Landed on a different planet today which, oddly enough, had a University of 2.0 R&D department... check it out for yourself:
www.media2.0workgroup.org

30DC attracting some heavy hitters: Mike Mindel, co-founder of Wordtracker, is even in on the TDC madness:
http://learn.wordtracker.com/newsletters/issue-five
Mike is also blogging the 30DC @:
http://www.webventurer.com/blog/thirty-day-challenge-3/
What is Web 2.0?
seomoz.org/web2.0/zeitgeist#what-is-web-2
A word on aesthetic values on Planet 2.0...keywords Clean & Minimal. Check out the Web Design From Scratch Web 2.0 Style Guide:
http://www.webdesignfromscratch.com/web-2.0-design-style-guide.cfm
30DC'er Ken Nadreau aka Doublehead's 30DC unearthings:
DoubleHead's 30DC blog
The final comment comes from this sublime pic from the increasingly spectacular eye of fellow 30DC'er, Rob Martin. View his blog @ sonichamphotography
You may initially question my use of the term sublime to describe Rob's shot of a doorstop. Take a sec and read Rob's comments to CTU (create the understanding).

Team Xtreme Open Concept is emerging... join the (R)Evolution of Conceptual Marketing

Find Team Xtreme here:
Tm XTREME
ApaulO 'Temp FB Exile' Agrinaut

Day 4: White Lightning: Open the floodgates

this is a train of thought, on the fly, catch up, housecleaning wanted to share with the team kinda entry, please forgive grammar

Also, anyone who would like to blog on the Team Xtreme site may do so. Please contact me. I well work with you to access the blog. This is an open concept, so jump in any time, you will find the water is great!

They Herd CatsToo: The Great Day 3 30DC Server Collapse

...server crash? what? r u nuts? you think a little server crash can stop the avalanche you’ve created. you’re herding cats now. even if it ended right now, it is an indisputable triumph. like showing a 1000 factory farmed cows the world’s largest, plushest, greenest pasture. what scares me is you guys probably know how to herd cats too…

This was Deb(thx Deb) inspired (please feel free to tweak/ATC:Advance The Concept):

30DC...it is MLM meets the secret meets SEO meets the web meets the techies meets the masses = about a 1000 people trying to make their first 10 bucks on the web... it is the 30 day challenge.
people are spending amazing amounts of money on the web, the big buck stuff, the large industries are a wrap, can't penetrate that, but the specialty markets, the smaller niche markets are showing exponential growth. it all comes back to how searches are conducted and perhaps even more importantly, how you are linked to others... think of it this way, take downtown NYC, if you are a little shop beside some huge chain store selling widgets and i mean a little shop, the size of a mouse hole, just that big 2" x 2", you would not get much business cuz NO one can see you, but what if all the other shops KNEW about you and told their customers, hey go check out deb's little shop of widgets and they gave the customer the precise, specific and exact coordinates (URL/LINK) to get to your widget shop... you would have a line up a mile long!
SO... just 'cuz you don't have a huge storefront and tons of dough, doesn't mean you can't move product/volume. as long as people know how to find you, via other links to you, other businesses, other means(technorati, Digg, Squidoo, et al), searches, etc, they WILL exchange money for your product or service. imagine even further if every time one of the shops referred you, they were given an incentive/reward. they would gladly do it again.
A very simple and basic explanation of the new web 2.0 marketplace.
Now, what i/we are learning are the tools being used by the web 2.0 movement. They are new, creative, hip but very different from the old web 1.0 tools. Google/ebay, et al, have transformed the web. It is all 100's of complex algorithms based on types of pure traffic, presence and awareness. SEO: Search Engine Optimization & Referrals, good old fashioned Word of Mouth, 21st Century style...extremely complex yes, yet also, like the human body, very simple. if we eat right and exercise, avoid bad habits we'll be okay. if you don't, well you could spend millions and have an army of doctors trying to keep you alive... The secret being - - you have to believe and you have to embrace the lifestyle (to extend the metaphor...) It is still business, it still requires hardwork and brains, a conviction and love of what you are doing.
so over the next 30 days we are learning how to eat right, exercise, avoid bad habits in the Xtreme Web 2.0 environment so we can thrive beyond the 30 days...

WolfPack Link Stink: (a good thing, how wolves communicate & find the good stuff)
http://www.webventurer.com/blog/thirty-day-challenge-3/
http://kennadreau.com/
Publishing2.com

If we missed you, sorry, we're taking day 4 to play wicked catch up... reminders don't hurt our feelings either.


Team Xtreme Open Concept is emerging... join the (R)Evolution of Conceptual Marketing

Find Team Xtreme here:
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=17695326128

Also, from all the Xtremeists... thx 30DC, you know who you are... and we know you're following your followers...

paul

Day 3::30DC + 1:Visualizing Success Scenarios:The Epiphany

It doesn't take long for a summer camper to decide if she is enjoying the experience. Camp is either a competently run affair or bluntly, it is a dismal, unorganized mess. The former applies to the mostly adult, 30 Day Challenge. Camp Coordinator, Dan Raine and his capable Camp Director, Ed Dale keep the roughly 1000 campers engaged with niche research activities, downloads, networking and so much icebreaking you'd think we were all in the high arctic. Challengers are in a marathon and it is apparent we have already lost some of the original recruits, but a strong, fit, resilient core continues to chase the dream of learning how to make $10 on the web from an original idea they have chosen, within 30 days.

With so many achieving a consciousness about the potential of the net while pursuing ten bucks, the 30DC has become a bona fide grassroots movement. Like so many true collective efforts in history that have risen from the masses, hope is the adrenaline that is firing the human pistons of this empowerment engine. With hope comes the possibility of success. There is a very tangible sense that we are involved in something special and it now becomes incumbent on us to visualize our success. Those who have made this breakthrough (make no mistake, success is a mental exercise in overcoming the fear of that which you seek) are well on their way to making a ten spot and then some. Seeing the horizon beyond 30 days is the 30DC epiphany.