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stubby43
stubby43 aka Phil is a 25.42 year old boy, has been a member since December 22, 2006, has scored 3,809 submissions, giving an average score of 2.65, helping 191 designs get printed.


Hey guys hows it going?



A couple of days ago I bought the book wikinomics by Don Tapscott and Anthony D. Williams, its about mass collaberation and how the threadless method of working is changing the entire buisness world (apprantly they didnt include threadless because they'd already gone to print when they found out about you).



This morning on a whim I emailed them telling them about the company and the community, talking about how we've made real friendships met up with each other (for example the store opening) traveling together and even set up buisness's together (black rock collective) and they emailed me back, their working on a sqeaul to wikinomica and they'd be really interested in talking to members of the community sometime in april.



"Thank you for the note. We have heard about threadless.com, but unfortunately it came across our radar screen just as the book was going to print. However, Don and I are working on a sequel to Wikinomics and the story you just conveyed sounds like something we would love to feature. Would you be willing to help set up an interview with yourself and some of your peers, perhaps sometime in April?"


Anthony Williams


martiandrivein
   martiandrivein on Mar 18 '08 at 3:37pm
that's be rad.
stubby43
stubby43 on Mar 18 '08 at 3:40pm
I dont really know what he wants other than to interview us in april or how it will happen (e.g online or actually meeting them) but still its really cool, I mean I'm pretty sure this books going to end up being my buisness bible so to have them interested in us is an honor.
stubby43
stubby43 on Mar 18 '08 at 3:43pm




One of the authors talking about the book.
Torakamikaze
   Torakamikaze on Mar 18 '08 at 3:47pm
cool!
chelly
chelly on Mar 18 '08 at 3:49pm
neato!
tobasco
tobasco on Mar 18 '08 at 3:50pm
Dude, that's so freaking cool!



I didn't know about Black Rock Collective! Can you link me to a website or something please? That's a book story in itself right there.
stubby43
stubby43 on Mar 18 '08 at 3:50pm
Maybe I should just email the threadless guys asking them to make it a news topic, I feel like alot of people dont realise just how important this is, they were given $9 million to research the first book these guys are highly respected in the buisness world and for them to take an interest in us is outright amazing.
stubby43
stubby43 on Mar 18 '08 at 3:52pm
here you go tobascoblack rock collective
goldensara
goldensara on Mar 18 '08 at 3:52pm
oh wow. I'm actually working on an undergraduate thesis studying the threadless model of business, I'll definately check out their book. Thanks for posting!
Torakamikaze
   Torakamikaze on Mar 18 '08 at 3:53pm
didja email the threadcrew?
chelly
chelly on Mar 18 '08 at 3:54pm
its not that people don't understand the importance, it's that very few folks here study business/economics



and yes, you should contact threadless about this
tobasco
tobasco on Mar 18 '08 at 3:55pm
Thanks stubby!
stubby43
stubby43 on Mar 18 '08 at 3:58pm
Good point chelly, I dont either but I am extremly interested in it, I mean I'm trying to work out how to relate it to the film and tv industry which will make up a large part of my disatation (but I have ambitions to set up a film company on similar principals).



I emailed them but I forgot to ask them to make an offical topic.
tobasco
tobasco on Mar 18 '08 at 4:01pm
This can only be good for Threadless! Freaking ay, sounds like something I would really enjoy reading too, will look it up in my bookstore next time I go buy comics!
stubby43
stubby43 on Mar 18 '08 at 4:06pm
The Don guy also emailed me back, he says he uses threadless as an example in all his speaches and I'm pretty sure he's lecturing at some really major places.
angelito
angelito on Mar 18 '08 at 4:08pm
goon on ya phil
Rambunkcious
Rambunkcious on Mar 18 '08 at 4:08pm
thats pretty awesome!
stubby43
stubby43 on Mar 18 '08 at 4:22pm
Cheers



The Anthony guy is based in london so he might be interested in meeting up with london bloggers but I honnestly have no idea.
stubby43
stubby43 on Mar 18 '08 at 7:25pm
bump.
funkie fresh
   funkie fresh on Mar 18 '08 at 7:33pm
that's really cool phil! maybe i'll go check out taht book. sounds like a good read.



stubby43
stubby43 on Mar 18 '08 at 7:40pm
Yeah as far as I can tell it is, I'm really not that far into it I think most bloggers will find it interesting because were extremely well versed in what their talking about and we've been practicing it for a number of years but that might also be a problem with the book for us. Its aimed at readers who have no experience with mass collaberation and are scared of using internet communities to help solve their problems.



Plus we have extra knowledge that the authors dont have.
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