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By: My Habari :: Audience, visitors or people?

My Habari :: Audience, visitors or people? — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 21:17:16 +0000

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By: ncmayhem

ncmayhem — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 19:38:15 +0000

Coming from a “noob” I will say that I am not intimidated by “veteran” social media users. I speak from the heart when I post or do anything in social media. I feel that being genuine is the key. Now whether or not people like that I can’t really help that.

That said, I do notice that some of the “veterans” tell “noobs” how to use social media. Then look down on them is they aren’t using it right. I thought the point of social media was to make it work for yourself not how others use it. What works for one person may not work for the next (and brands). I just don’t understand how you can have rules for a “media” so new. Isn’t is still evolving? Won’t it continue to evolve? To steal a line from Dan Patrick, “you can’t stop social media, you can only hope to contain it”.

Sorry for all the “”‘s

Brian – aka @ncmayhem

By: simonsalt

simonsalt — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 19:24:36 +0000

Marc
Fantastic post. Humble & humbling. It is always nice to see people revisit their assumptions and modify them accordingly, to me it is the sign of someone who truly has growth both personal and professional at heart.

Keep on pointing out the things you see as not working well in Social Media because its important that none of us become complaisant.

Thank you for providing thought provoking posts and for being willing to debate the issues.

Regards
Simon
@incslinger

By: usegraymatter

usegraymatter — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 19:07:11 +0000

Rock on, my brother.
I wholeheartedly echo your sentiments.
There’s plenty of room for all of us who care. And when someone who doesn’t care shows up at the party, we can simply ignore, unfollow, block, unlink, unjoin or unsubscribe.
(Wish it were that easy offline.)

Impressed by your thoughtfulness in this post. I have no doubt, it will truly help transform the way we all think.

THIS is social media-business-networking-outreach-conversation at its very best.

You nailed it!

Kindest regards,
Renee Lemley

My single most important life lesson?
The secret to happiness is gratitude and forgiveness. (But, of course, that’s just one woman’s opinion.)

My single most important social media lesson?
Well, I guess I’ll just have to keep you posted on that one…

By: Fractured Bloughts » Social media » Audience, visitors or people?

Fractured Bloughts » Social media » Audience, visitors or people? — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 19:00:09 +0000

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By: Michelle Kostya

Michelle Kostya — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 16:34:45 +0000

Love this post Marc. I am glad you are seeing things differently (again!) This is the wonderful part of social media that I want to share with others!

By: Steve Radick

Steve Radick — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 16:03:15 +0000

Thanks for the shout-out Marc – glad you enjoyed my post! Take a look at this page from Wikipedia, “Don’t Bite the Newcomers.” (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don't_bite_the_newcomer). It’s sometimes difficult for those us who have been operating in this space for a while to remember back to when we first started – it was a scary thing to just jump in and start contributing. I think we’d all do good to every once in a while, reach out to a new blogger or Twitter user, and point him in the right direction and let him/her know that it’s ok that they’re new and that people will support them if they just ask for help.