I’m a big fan of del.icio.us and while I don’t use it as actively as I used to, it’s still one of my favorite sites. Well, a couple of years ago I wrote a post about “Mavens Hanging out on Del.icio.us“, when I went to del.icio.us the post myself, I found that someone had beaten me to it (by the way, I remember that because it was one of the most flattering things to me- someone else read it and bookmarked it!). I added the person to my network, Danafu, he reciprocated that, and throughout the years we’ve received many links from each other.
While I was at EPIC, someone came up to me and introduced himself as “Danafu.” Sure enough, it was Danafu from my del.icio.us network! We had never met face-to-face before, and I didn’t even know he would be at the conference. We had lunch together, and much like I’d expect given our shared interest in links, we had a very good conversation and had many similar interests. Hi Dana!!
It really was a neat coincidence!
I noticed that someone else in my del.icio.us network added “met her at EPIC” in the notes field of one of their bookmarks (a company’s website “about us” page). I didn’t meet him at EPIC, but it’s neat that he was there too!
Tags: Blogging, EPIC, Life, NaBloPoMo, Organizations/Conferences
That is a really cool story. I have got some people in my delicious network whose interests overlap so nicely with mine that I often think we would get on well if we met in real life. It’s gratifying when you have delicioused a page, and then later you see it in their linkstream, and wonder if they went there because they saw your post.
Fran
http://del.icio.us/folkdevil
Hi Fran,
I added you on del.icio.us (I’m jenfur19th over there).
I met someone at the EPIC conference who did a social network project for their thesis that tapped into del.icio.us to find friends for you. It was a mashup of Dodgeball and del.icio.us and a really created way of getting people with like interests together. Unfortunately, it was a project for his thesis and I’m not sure that his sponsoring company is going to realize it… we’ll have to wait and see.