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April 06, 2007
Creating Passionate Users - Reverse engineering passion
I watched the video-recording (101 MB .ogg file) of Kathy Sierra's talk from LCA '07. It's really good and I learnt many things, which would surely me in getting better at things (building software/products or communities).
Thanks to Gopal for sharing the link.
I noted a few things (points, quotes, words etc etc).
Some of the attributes of passionate users:
- Evangelize
- Learn
- Spend Money
- Spend time
- Connect with others
- Show off / take pride (tshirts, bags etc)
- Elevate the meaning
Some quotes/sentences used in the talk:
- Where there is passion, there is a user kicking ass.
- It's not about the tools you build, it's about what your users do with the them.
- Being better is better.
- Being better is higher-resolution experience.
- Make right things easy and wrong things hard.
- Suck threshold vs Passion threshold.
Some screenshots of video can be seen at:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/abdulqabiz/tags/kathysierra/
Posted by Abdul Qabiz at April 6, 2007 05:44 PM
Comments
Creating Passionate Users is my favorite blog .. I like it so much that I get goose bumps every time I see a new item against it in my Google Reader .. what Kathy is experiencing is very sad ... I would really miss reading her and I hope she come back soon.
Posted by: Mrinal Wadhwa at April 6, 2007 08:45 PM
Yeah it's sad, I hope everything goes fine.
Posted by: Abdul Qabiz at April 6, 2007 09:28 PM