Considering I try to nurture my inner nerd as much as possible, and that I am an information junkie, it should come as no surprise that I found yet another social media site.
And this morning kids, I #Chime.in before I checked facebook.
*Gasp*
That’s right.
I have a new love.
Yesterday was the birth of chime.in, a beta platform of a new type of social sharing and interest building feed sites. If you are familiar with “pulse” it reminds me of that type of sharing look and feel. I was lucky enough to be a #firstchimer yesterday, and it felt pretty darn awesome to buzz around a new platform.
They have some very cool community managers and communities that the “chimera” ( my plural) can go to , navigate, share and become engaged in the “Interest” of choice. The managers are there to guide, follow, suggest and help if need be.
I hooked up w/ my first follower, @Jas , then @Everson in the music community. While there, I posted the motopony blog and videos from this site. They loved it in LA.
Are you following me here: I spread, virally, the motopony brand, in an organic, genuine way to like-minded others who enjoy new, good, groovy stuff they may not have known about.
This is what social media sites are for.
Especially if you are a branding agent, marketer or futurist. Marketing 101.
Find your audience, take the brand to them.
Later yesterday, I hooked up with ahoyPaulChoi. A visionary thinker on the team behind chime.in.
Who?
Well, Paul Choi is the Senior Community Manager @Ubermedia & chime.in, also the Director of Marketing @beerbelly_LA. He says he is “Connecting the dots between brand strategy, the social sciences, and the digital space.”
So go ahead, now you are curious, hit up
and get in the game. (You can find me under my real name.)
Paul ‘s chime yesterday :
What a day…
One of my favorite stories to tell is that when I was growing up I would always read the Industry Standard and marvel at Idealab and the work Bill Gross was doing. Needless to say, today is a very special day for me. Thanks go out to the UberMedia and Idealab teams for all the support. Love goes out to those of you who have played with the site and given us words of encouragement or constructive criticism. Today was filled with emotions and fueled by adrenaline. I CANT WAIT to build this with you. One, -APC
This is from the “about us” page:
Chime.in: Connect around your interests
At Chime.in we’re building the world’s richest interest network. A place to learn and share with others who have the same interests. Where one day, your every interest, no matter how big or small, serious or silly, will have its own vibrant community of people who are just as passionate about it as you are.
Our goal is to be the most democratic publishing platform in social media. So, we’re building in tools to give everyone a bigger voice: analytics on your posts and followers, ways to connect people with the most relevant and quality content, and, eventually, ways to monetize your content with partners.
Chime.in is part of UberMedia (www.ubermedia.com), the world’s leading independent developer of feature-rich social media products that make it easy to publish, consume and engage, no matter who you are. UberMedia’s growing portfolio includes market-leading Twitter applications UberSocial and Echofon, with more than 5 million users in both desktop and mobile environments worldwide. UberMedia is headquartered at Idealab (www.idealab.com) in Pasadena, Calif.
