This is a social media experiment with a difference.
Tuttle founder Lloyd Davis is hoping to prove the power of social capital by travelling from West to East America by the help of his online network ONLY.
So that’s accommodation, food and travel only to be donated by his digital connections. At the time this post was published, Lloyd had raised $1520 donated by 28 of his online community.
The idea behind the trip is to prove the importance and strength of online relationships and how they can translate into real-life commodities and cash. In short social media ROI.
He’ll be flying out on 1st March to San Francisco and hopes to end up somewhere on the East coast (possibly Boston) via SXSW.
All he’s taking with him will be a social media tool-kit; smartphone, netbook, flip camera and an SLR and he’ll be blogging his way through the journey here.
If you’d like to help him in any way – offer him a sofa, send him some cash or drive him around, you can do here.
TechFluff is gona keep up with his progress with regular skype calls, so watch this space!
A few days before the big trip, we asked why Lloyd is undertaking such a mean feat, the plans (or lack of!) he’s already put in place and what will happen if he runs into trouble.
Tuttle founder crossing America using Social Capital ONLY
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@hermioneway Kind of has an air of Accelerando about it (the main character there owns nothing and lives entirely off social capital)
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@swombat ohhh!
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The power of social capital through travel has already been proved, Hermione…. you told the story two years old already
http://techfluff.tv/2009/04/05/the-twitchhicker-man-who-attempted-to-travel-around-world-using-twitter/
@hermioneway don’t forget I’m Lucy with an ‘ie’ when my digital hat is on
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[...] spoke to Lloyd a few days before his trip began here. He told us what plans he had in place (or lack of!), the tech he’d be taking and why he was [...]