---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Neal Gorenflo <[email protected]> Date: Tue, Nov 8, 2011 at 7:39 AM Subject: CommonSource Monthly Update - October 2011 To: Dear Stakeholders, October is our 2nd anniversary of our launch. It's only appropriate that this month we reached more people than ever - by a pretty big margin. Here's more on an exciting month: -ShareNY <http://www.shareable.net/blog/announcing-share-new-york> on 11/19 & 20 is about 20 tickets away from selling out. Milicent has been on the ground in New York the last two weeks putting the finishing touches on the event and organizing tirelessly. Please share this event with your New York friends. -We're going to SXSW again! Our panel<http://panelpicker.sxsw.com/ideas/view/9260>on the sharing economy was one of 600 selected from a field of over 3,200 entries. -Paul Davis produced an entire series on crowdfunding then packaged it up as an e-book for Kindle and iPad, a first for Shareable. Check out Crowdfunding Nation for Kindle here<http://shareable.net/blog/crowdfunding-nation-now-available-as-kindle-ebooks>. Still waiting for approval for the Apple store. -We continued our series on Policies for a Shareable City<http://shareable.net/blog/policies-for-a-shareable-city> with partner the Sustainable Economies Law Center, which is reaching a relatively small but influential audience of urbanists. I was interviewed about the series on Awakening Value Radio. We have about 13 more posts to go in a 20-part series. -We increased our coverage of Occupy Wall Street. That's been driving a lot of new visits to Shareable. There's probably more we can do to introduce this movement to the solutions we write about. Any suggestions? -I organized a panel at the Institute of the Future about peer production featuring Shareable editorial advisor Michel Bauwens of the P2P Foundation. It was well attended, and our relationship with both organization continues to grow. -We continue to get coverage from many interesting places, including the inaugural issue of Trash Magazine in Finland, an impressive magazine for optimists and designers. This adds to increasing pick up of our content by CommonDreams and Huffington Post, which is helping us reach a huge number of new readers. TOP STORIES -3D Printing to Community to Crowdsource Saving a Species -10 Projects to Liberate the Web -Microtouch: An Open Source, DIY eBook Reader and Mobile Device -Architectural Myopia: Designing for Industry, Not People -The Next Net -Libraries Become Centers for Sharing -Libraries Are Doing More With Less -Crowdfunding Nation SITE STATS: We had a record month in October due to our series on libraries, crowdfunding, and Policies for Shareable Cities. Plus, we got lucky with a couple pickups by Slashdot. I doubt we'll match this in November, but I expect to upward trend to continue over the long term. Unique visitors: 75,798, up 90% Pageviews: 142,568, up 48% Average time on site: 2:10 minutes, down 15% Facebook members: 13,343, up around 3% Twitter members: 7,441, up around 5% Alexa rank: 52,382, improved by about 5K places Happy 2nd Anniversary everyone! Thanks for helping to move sharing and commons into the mainstream - it's a matter of survival that we do this work. We have an amazing opportunity for service. And I'm grateful to be on this journey with you. Please reach out with any questions or suggestions. Thanks again, -Neal -- Neal Gorenflo | Publisher, Shareable <http://shareable.net/> | @ShareableDesign <http://twitter.com/#%21/ShareableDesign> | 415.867.0429 You're invited to ShareNY <http://bit.ly/qZhOkO>, November 19th & 20th. -- P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net Connect: http://p2pfoundation.ning.com; Discuss: http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation Updates: http://del.icio.us/mbauwens; http://friendfeed.com/mbauwens; http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens