I guess I’m a Triberr late adopter! I’ve known about Triberr for a while but I finally joined and got invited to a couple of Tribes and I’ve got to say I’m impressed. I’ve always liked the idea of removing the friction from collaboration. Triberr does a great job of exactly that.

I had the pleasure of hanging out with Dino Dogan (Triberr’s co-founder) when I was in New York – that was a lot of fun. Dino and I got into an interesting discussion on the idea that “Sponsorship” is such a 1.0 word and that the whole concept is ripe for reinvention.

We also talked Listly and explored the idea of Listly / Triberr integration, so I made a list from Rebel Brown’s Tribe – The Rebel Nation. It found it very insightful. I didn’t have full visibility of the people in the tribe via Triberr – not the same kind of visibility I get from this list. I also tagged the list with the people I know and I’d like to know.

I don’t count following someone as knowing them. I think one thing that would be fun would be for me to actually connect with the rest of the tribe in person for a conversation. I’ve been enjoying @BoydJane’s #45Conversations idea.

For me tribal networking should mean a whole lot more than tweeting posts and I think that’s some of the value Listly brings to the process – not only can everyone embed the list on their blog and thereby celebrate membership of the tribe, but everyone can tag everyone they  know and want’s to know. Why not tag the people you know.

This list links to everyone’s Twitter page, but I could have linked to their blogs – ie I could have created a Tribal Blogroll

Is that it on Listly integration? Nope. Of course there’s so much more you can do with Listly – that’s just one use, but extending the connections of Tribal members is a positive thing. It’s great to take the connection beyond an initial conversation, for example I’d recently got into a Skype chat with Bruce Sallan. Bruce and I got into a conversation because of his content. If we hadn’t been in the same tribe that may never have happened.

I’d like to join more tribes, but I’d like to see a list of the members and explore the list and their blog content before deciding. I’m seriously thinking about what my Triberr strategy should be – I think every tool worth using deserves a strategy.

How about you? What do you think of Triberr? How much Tribal networking have your done? How do you evaluate which tribes you join? How do you pick your tribes or your tribe members?

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Nick Kellet (143 Posts)

Nick is co-founder the social curation platform Listly, that combines crowdsourcing, content curation and embedable lists to drive high-level community engagement, live inside your blog posts. Connect with Nick on Twitter · Linkedin, Facebook and G+ and follow his writing via his other guest posts and on his blogs at NickKellet.com and blog.list.ly