Somewhere People Want to Be, with Harris Foster

Everybody's Talking at Once

ETAO PODCAST, EPISODE 165.

Harris Foster is the former Community Manager at Finji and the current Director of Communications at Good Trouble. Here he talks about where those roles overlap, how they differ, and what a purpose-built, welcoming community looks like in practice, online and off.

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• Drew did edit the first part of this episode in the air, but then finished it up on a train from Dublin to Belfast (for those interested in the host’s mild globe-trotting; it does add flavor).•

• The many-buttoned fighting game that Harris mentions is Centenntable.

• As Harris says, we had Sarah and Colin Northway on recently and talked about I Was a Teenage Exocolonist. We also had Ricky Haggett on to discuss Wilmot’s Warehouse.

• Finji’s new community manager is Aster. They’re currently on Twitter, which currently exists.

• And here’s the the etymology of inspiration.

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“All The People Say (Season 5)” by Carpe Demon.
“Memories of Memories” from the TUNIC OGST by Lifeformed × Janice Kwan.

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