30 Days of Creativity was a social initiative encouraging people to create stuff, anything, every day for 30 days during the month of June and share it on twitter using the #30daysofcreativity #ashtag.

Perfect example of gathering a community, building a network and trying something ambitious.

@John, it’s a fair question about the $5,000 goal. I gave that a lot of thought before I started the Kickstarter project. Beyond my time, which I’m not really accounting for, there are costs associated with writing the book.

- I have a considerable list of people I want to interview, and I may want to visit at least a few of them (especially if many are all in the same place or research at the same university), so there’s airfare costs and hotel (unless I can successfully couch surf)

- The cost of transcription services if I want to ever complete the book

- The cost of someone else’s time to edit for me if I want the book to be readable

- The cost for a private collaboration space (some are free, some are not) for the editorial board members

- And money for design, production, and distribution unless I don’t actually want the book published

The more that I think about it, and the more I talk with people in publishing, I probably far undershot what this will actually cost, even if I use the cheapest solutions. But, there are 22 days left in funding so we’ll see where it ends up. Ultimately, I made a promise that I will do it, so I’m going to do it to the greatest extent of my abilities, and the people that so far make up the Editorial Board are amazing and will help me make sure this is a damn valuable book. My goal is to create something you can put into immediate practice.

Consider joining us or spreading the word, I’d really appreciate both or either.

And let’s say on the side you’ve created a small, grassroots movement called One Million Butterflies (@ButterflyEvent) where folks create as many handmade butterflies as they can by 2012 to go on a mural to celebrate global education for girls? But the problem is it’s not going anywhere because you’re plum spent of strength due to an auto-immune disorder. Thoughts?

I think The Bucket Brigade will succeed because not many have tried a public appeal for funding. (Also, it is an interesting project.)

An even more important point is that barriers to entry are really low. Anyone with some talent and time are able to get an audience if they are creative enough and deliver quality.

What surprises me is that Bud Caddell ‘needs’ $5000 to complete the project in the first place. He appears to be a successful professional and $5000 isn’t a lot of money. Also, does he need to take time off from work? Can’t he just complete the project in his free time?

I like the fact that he is involving investors in the process of completing the book. It is likely that the community may be worth far more than the $5000.

I fully agree that people and brand can do a lot with “not-gigantic network”. Actually, the nature of the network, the level of engagement is as important as its size.

It is better to have 100 very engaged people in your FB page than to get 1000 with no engagement at all.

That I think is a call to action for targeting and segmentation for people building communities. More is not always better.