Discussing Culture Conductor on Tummelvision

The same day we launched this site, I was also a guest on the weekly Internet webcast, Tummelvision.  Take a good look at these cuties, cuz I’m gonna be talking about them again around here:

That’s Deb Schultz, Kevin Marks, and Heather Gold — all tummlers who like to talk about tummeling.  But first, what’s a tummler?

tumm·ler // (tmlr)

n.

1. One, such as a social director or entertainer, who encourages guest or audience participation.

2. One who incites others to action.

In other words, the person who engages a group. (Kinda like a conductor, you might say…)

Here’s the full show for your listening pleasure:

Tummelvision 28 with guest Sarah Dopp

Tip: The first segment is about current events. If you want to skip to the part where we discuss Culture Conductor, jump ahead to the 39:15 mark.

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Here are some more detailed notes on what was discussed in the show, with timestamps:

2:40 – Century of the Self, BBC series (watch online)

• Sigmund Freud’s nephew Bernays is the creator of P.R.
• Discussing Obama

7:40 – Shirley Sherrod news story

• what happens when a provocative story is taken out of context?
• how can it be managed differently?

21:40 – Discussion of common spaces versus disparate communities.  These days, we tend more toward disparate.  Do tummelers reach out?

33:33 – Washington Post story: 800,000 people have Top Secret clearance

• When too many people have top secret clearance, how is communication actually being handled?

39:15 – Introducing Culture Conductor: Goals and content.

43:40 – About the different types of conductors: Electrical, Music, Train.

• Deb referenced Itay Talgam‘s discussion of conductor types

52:00 – Different community management types: Dopp is the warm and fuzzy mommy character.

55:48 - Online newspaper comment culture: how to deal with the poison? (Charging for comments?!?)

58:40 - Reality show celebrities as social objects. (What would Judy Garland say on Twitter?)

1:04:40 – Disaster relief plans for coordinated site attacks

1:06:52 – Discussing Genderfork: what’s it’s about, how we set a supportive tone.

1:09:00 – Language debates about gender, dealing with heated situations.

1:14:00 – [Weird technical difficulties..... sorry.]

1:14:50 – Discussing the Turing Test and gender

1:19:40 – Gender fluid people have unique ability to lead culture in comfort with ambiguity. We’re raising a population of culture translators.

1:23:00 – You need to be able to handle someone’s unhappiness and discomfort in order to manage the conversation

1:23:30 – Dopp’s relationship with her conservative grandfather — how they get along through translation.

1:24:40 – Are these skills learned or are we born with them? Either way, they can completely change a situation.