There's no inconsistency. Everyone just has to realize that the blog is the center of the universe. Just kidding; seriously, Gunnar has an excellent point! - Ontario Emperor
ha, I cant even convince my wife: she reads her favorite blogs directly!!! - Duncan Riley
same here! I have to email her recommended articles from Google Reader, instead of getting her to subscribe to one of my link feeds. - Mark "Rizzn" Hopkins
Yup - that 'email' function in Google Reader is invaluable in my house as well. - Hutch Carpenter
This is a bit old, but still quite relevant. Jeremiah Owyang describes the personas of adoption for technology: The Pebble, Swimmers, Surfer, Boater, With the Fleet. - Hutch Carpenter
“@roblef @evantravers @roblef Just wanted to chime in my love for Dark Tower as well. Wasn't it "brigands that you battled?”
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“Using iPod Touch to view FriendFeed. Very cool. One little issue is moving down the page with my finger. I keep inadvertantly tapping links on the page!”
The biggest ones? Maybe. But it's a subset of the Marketing/PR function and should be handled there. - Louis Gray
There's external social media, and internal social media. The internal stuff - getting the advantages seen out here - is tougher. How to get employee participation? Perhaps another angle on the mainstream adoption meme. - Hutch Carpenter
gotta admit the term Social Manager made me cringe at first :) - Steven Hodson
I know. I used "social media" instead of enterprise 2.0. Enterprise 2.0 has a "tools" ring to it. I wanted to focus on participation inside the workplace. Social media is a better term for that. - Hutch Carpenter
DreamFish (social network software for private organizations in beta) has a "Facilitators" box which I liked: (1) Community Manager (2+) any other facilitators. Aside from the other DreamFish stuff (basically Ning), this was my favorite DreamFish feature. Eventually: we might have high-level & low-level facilitators/"social media managers" of various types. - Mitchell Tsai
Some videoconferencing groups use live facilitators who watch people, and say "I think John would like to say something". There are also eye-trackers and gesture-trackers which try to automatically shift video to the videoconferenced-people who seem-to-want-to-say-something. - Mitchell Tsai
NCDC (Northern California Dance Collective) had a cool role in their meetings: "Vibe-watcher", someone to help manage overheated situations. We alternated roles at each meeting. It's sometimes useful to rotate the "devils advocate" role, so one person doesn't feel like they always have to be the "bad guy". - Mitchell Tsai
@Mitchell - interesting take on the low/high level social media managers. I also think that it will come out of different groups: the sales leader, the customer service leader, the engineering leader, etc. Domain expertise still matters. - Hutch Carpenter
I think not only the biggest, but those that show they care and listen to their customers as well. You don't have to be huge to have someone focused on what your customers are "saying" about you. I think the good companies will do something similar and many other companies should have someone in charge of watching and working within Social Media if they want to see the true value of their brand. - Patrick
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