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Gina

every time I see the words "social media marketing" a little piece of me dies inside

August 7, 2008 from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

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glad to hear I'm not the only one - Deepak Singh

In theory I'll agree with but in practice social media is where I consume a lot of my information. When marketing is done right it's just information and I can take it or leave it, but if it's not coming through the channels I use I'm never going to see it/get it. Do I want to see social media overrun with bad marketing and PR gimmicks? No I want to see marketing people get better. - Michelle Jones

It's going to happen, because there's no way to escape from them. They'll infiltrate your friend networks just like they infiltrated your inbox, and the race of "who can shout their message loudest" will begin again. How many times today have you spread a marketing message without realizing it? Friend requests will become the new spam. How many people have been followed by a spammer on twitter? - Mr. Gunn

Someone called "TheBioinformatician" with a blank profile linking only to a blank blog subscribed to my feed today. How many of you added him just based on his name and the fact that he's following you? - Mr. Gunn

Thank God it's always more or less the same people rising to the top and we all know them all too well... - Matthias Schwenk

Vincent, I don't think that's the kind of marketing Gina's talking about. Marketing your own skills and experiences is, as you point out, what's supposed to happen. Marketing of products and services that are not your own, but rather those of a company that you're being compensated to promote is what gets in the way of the kind of marketing that's supposed to happen. There is a clear, bright line that separates the two kinds of marketing that advertisers fail to respect. - Mr. Gunn

In fact, exposing as many people as possible to "message X" is considered by them to be marketing of their skills and experiences. That's why the two can never peacefully co-exist. - Mr. Gunn

Mr. Gunn, I don't follow anyone who doesn't update material themselves, or contribute meaningfully to friendfeed - Deepak Singh

So we're singing the same tune, then. Thanks to you both. - Mr. Gunn

would conversational marketing be a better term. At least that might imply some effort to connect with us not just blast us - Mark Scrimshire

I don't know if it would be better. The way I see it, social networks were designed primarily for the purpose of getting away from marketing. Would we need social networks if we could trust that any email entering our inbox came from someone we know and want to talk to, and if web searches weren't cluttered with irrelevance? OK, so they help with aggregation of activity, too, but that's only one of their functions. Filtering out marketing is certainly another. - Mr. Gunn

Jason Goldberg

socialmedian: Where did the opening day traffic come from? - http://blog.socialmedian.com/2008...

August 1, 2008 from socialmedian - Comment - Like - Share

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Here is a list of where traffic to socialmedian came from in the past 24 hours since we opened up the site for anyone to use. Notables: * Twitter is our #2 source of traffic, and performed better than any of the media sites as a source * FriendFeed also performed very high relative to other sites. * LouisGray.com outperformed VentureBeat & cnet. [click through for the raw data] - Jason Goldberg

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Love the transparency here on the analytics though I'd love a screenshot or two :) Well done. - AJ Kohn

AJ: I'd actually like to get to the point where anyone can have a view in the google site analytics of any site, including ours. - Jason Goldberg

I'm with Jason on the transparency proposal. I've made it very clear what my statistics look like and I encourage others to do so. It's not about ego at all, it's about sharing and encouraging others who are smaller to rise up, while also exposing how small we are. - Louis Gray

Jason: are mailing turns in direct traffic or not? - Erhan Erdoğan

Leaders lead when they are transparent. I've really enjoyed seeing this as a common practice around here. - michael sean wright

Chris Brogan

50 Steps to Establishing a Consistent Social Media Practice - http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r...

July 27, 2008 from Google Reader - Comment - Like - Share

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Some day, the well will run dry. So far so good. But man. How much can we blab about social media? - Chris Brogan

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Good list, Chris. I would add: get your co-workers/employees involved and participating on at least one of the three SNS you picked. Good example: Zappos. http://twitter.zappos.com/ - Hao Chen

@Hao Chen - great point. I mentioned having a few folks jump in as backups, but you're right. Having a group visit a social network is a good point, too. - Chris Brogan

Chris, great list again; adds to your previous posts on this topic! Did not know that 50% of your subscribers get delivery over email. RSS still is not widely used, I suppose. - Jeroen De Miranda

Social Media Club: Richard Binhammer

50 Steps to Establishing a Consistent Social Media Practice - http://www.chrisbrogan.com/50-step...

July 27, 2008 - Comment - Like - Share

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A lot of material here from Brogan, thought the room would be interested - Richard Binhammer

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