Community Builders for Media Obsessed Yuppies
Two ideas for you to get in touch with your peoples, get esoteric, enjoy company, and feed your brain while nourishing a healthy obsession with image, pop culture and the arts.
CD CLUB
- Get 12 people together.
- Assign one person (you) to collect contact information for everyone including complete mailing addresses.
- Aggregate this information on a website or just send everyone an email.
- At the beginning of each month, one club-member burns 11 CD’s and sends to everyone else with a letter about what’s up in their lives.
CD’s can be mixes, entire CD’s, great speeches of the 20th century.
A great chance to share inspiration/information and keep in touch with your wayward network. Works well with dispersed college buddies.
BOOK CLUB
- Get a group of friends who like to read and drink.
- Aggregate contact info. Yahoo! Groups works well
- Once a month someone hosts the club at their house. Each month has a different wine theme. We have done themes such as Spanish, sake, tequila, big reds…The person who hosts the event gets to choose the next book and the person who will host the coming event chooses the wine.
Virtual Book Club
Golden State Warriors center and political activist
Adonal Foyle hosts a
virtual book club on his blog. From Adonal's website:
At the beginning of each month, I will post the month’s book choice and the date by which club members should have finished reading the book (usually the third week of the month). By that date, I would like all of my online club members to have e-mailed me their questions and thoughts on the book. Then my original book club will meet and discuss your questions and comments, and I will post yours and our responses on the website.
Posted by Neil at May 8, 2004 09:48 PM
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