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NTC was fun. I got to see lots of great people I don’t get to see enough: Sonny Cloward, Amanda Hickman, Micheal Silberman, Leda Deiderich, Steve Wright to name only a few.

I also got re-exposed to something I called “faceted celebrity.” The basic concept is this, the intersection of the subdomains in which you are proficient is a facet. For me, I am proficient in Salesforce.com, nonprofit processes, and software development. There are thousands of people who are proficient in any one of these facets, but the intersection of these three domains is a pretty small one. In that intersection, I enjoy my 15 minutes of faceted celebrity, and NTC happens to be where the people interested in that facet (all 5 of them) gather together.

Faceted celebrity is not a new concept, there have always been domain experts where the domain is so small most people don’t even notice it. But Internet publishing has greatly increased to opportunities for these small communities to stay in touch.

Jon Stahl, my awesome coworker, enjoys a decent amount of faceted celebrity in the NTEN community as well. Which is why, at dinner one night, I overheard this from a respected technologist,

“I first decided Jon Stahl was a legend in this community when…”

Needless to say Jon asked that this be repeated multiple times over the course of the night…

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