Comments on: What is our personal saturation level for social media?

By: moshe rabeynu

moshe rabeynu — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 00:25:07 +0000

I had a nightmare last night and I am still shaking. I know there must be some deep and hidden meaning behind it and I am hoping that someone out there might be able to help me interpret this dream as Joseph helped the Pharaoh. I dreamt that I was the meat in the sandwich between Tzippi Livni and Sarah Palin, you know what I mean, that I was “Lucky Pierre”. But, in this dream, upon my awakening in the morning, I had a terrible taste in my mouth and found myself between Golda Meir and Madeline Albright. Oy, gottenyu!!

By: Miriam Schwab

Miriam Schwab — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 15:32:37 +0000

Hi – thanks for the link!

I think that the next big thing on the web will be services that help people filter through all the info so that they only have to read the most important stuff for their interests or profession. The question is how it will be done, but we’ll have to get there if we want to stay on top of trends and developments, but still get work done.

By: ecairn

ecairn — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 02:18:56 +0000

I meant that the corporate world is very structured : Control and command, the boss is (almost) always right and makes the decision, you’re put in a box, you waste tons of time in aimless meetings and so on….
Social media as you pointed out is more free. I know from my experience working with some clients that it’s intimidating, mostly I think because it’s unknown/unfamiliar territory. As some written said we’re afraid of the unknown but as soon as we step into it, we realize that there was no reason for the fear. The more customers try it, the better it will be!

By: emersondirect

emersondirect — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 14:41:34 +0000

Laurent, the structure in the corporate is far from random. the structure is, structure. there is structure in social media it’s more free form, but there are unwritten rules, and rules of engagement. it’s self policing.

Social media is becoming more subjective the larger it gets and thus there is the potential for it to be more niche based. if anything the larger it gets the more potential it has to becoming privatized. It already is actually through the use of enterprise social networking platforms. So complex, yes, to the uninitated, simple to those who know the drill.

By: laurent

laurent — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 14:23:36 +0000

Social media is complex: highly fragmented , super dynamic landscape, with a structure that’s not the one we’re used to in the corporate world (not random..more natural). So I think it’s key to get organized by keeping tabs on relevant media (blogs..), some social network and accepting that we can’t read everything, worst, we can only ready a little bit of what’s being said and we may miss something important..oh well next time we’ll catch it. To be honest, that’s just the way it is in the real world but the web has created the illusion of a ‘small world’ -> no it’s big and we’re a little thing in it.