Nouns

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nouns.wtf

i'm a little frustrated with ppl taking cheap dunks on nouns

has any *centralized* NFT project with a comparable ~$50M spend exported more new tech, culture, and public goods funding? (maybe only exception is penguins) 

the fact that nouns has done much much more with actual *decentralized* governance (and all the inefficiencies that comes from that) makes it a remarkable example of maybe having hope that decentralized internet communities can do some real things (like building its own gov tools, winning dota tournaments, making feature length movies, etc).

ofc there is a lot to actually be critical of. for example value capture feels very low compared to what we've produced. but lumping nouns into the bucket of "look, another dao wasting money" is a cheap and lazy take

 https://x.com/hongkim__/status/1820916246319341923

Could Nouns benefit from a coordinated PR & Marketing campaign?

Are we doing enough to expose all the amazing things and people that have found success through Nouns?

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Hi Josh and Everyone,

Thanks, Josh. I appreciate that. Every day, I am aware that I want to be accomplishing more with Nouns Fest, which is an odd way to begin a comment, I suppose, but I have really high expectations for myself and my work — and I believe very much in Nouns Fest!

Writer, husband, dog dad, PR type, not necessarily in that order.

I've been working with Stoopid Buddy Stoodios on their Nouns projects for a while — ever since the Rose Parade float. (I wasn't a Rose Parade novice, strangely, as I had worked on the Rose Parade for Lucasfilm way back in 2007.)

The core of what Nouns is doing is fascinating to me, and exists *almost* separate from NFTs themselves: taking NFT-generated funds and creating real-world projects that are sometimes art-based and sometimes community-based but always aimed at improving the world.

To that end, I agree with @noun40 about "cheap dunks" on Nouns -- but those cheap dunks are a) part of the process and, more importantly, b) rooted in a fundamental lack of awareness of what Nouns is doing. There are so many different aspects to the Nouns story, as 40 points out, including the very notion

of the DAO itself, and why it flies in the face of everything that's assumed about organizational theory.

Now you're beginning to see the challenge: In a few paragraphs, I've mentioned NFTs, art, community building, public-works projects, Nouns Fest and organizational theory. There's a LOT to the Nouns message.

That's one of the biggest things I think needs to be addressed by effective PR and communications: What the hell is Nouns? YOU all get it (though it means a lot of things to a lot of people), but this has been a fundamental hurdle in everything I've been involved with that's Nouns-related.

Feedback I get from media includes: "We don't cover NFTs," "That sounds weird," "How do I know it's real?" and "But ... who's in charge?"

It's hard to tell a story without SOMEONE telling *A* story. That's one of the core challenges facing Nouns. Developing a PR program for Nouns won't be easy, but I think …

it's important, because too many people lump Nouns in with far less reputable, far less meaningful, far less legitimate NFT-based organizations, which has hampered the Nouns story from being told.

So, just wanted to share some (rather lengthy) thoughts!

As a DAO, Nouns has some challenges when it comes to determining its core messaging, but those challenges aren't TOO different from, say, Disney or Lucasfilm or DreamWorks (all companies I've worked for) trying to figure out how to prioritize its messaging in the midst of competing projects.