"This is exactly what I’m talking about. Blogs are a great place to show depth of thinking. I laugh when people take potshots on Twitter, then have nothing but babble on their blogs to back it up. Let’s focus on the builders – not the ones who build themselves up by tearing others down."
- Peter Kim
"Interesting revisit on the idea. Ironically Facebook could be viewed as velvet-rope today; perhaps the only social network that isn’t would be email. The rope is certainly a strategy that helps build public interest while keeping things manageable on the inside as service details get worked out."
- Peter Kim
"In hindsight, I suppose Dulles, Virginia, USA was the internet capital of the world about 15 years ago... Communities of practice are certainly critical, extending from the ecosystem of consumers to producers. As you point out, statistics seem to point to London as the capital of usage...but would the same hold for production? Or would that title go to New York or Silicon Valley?"
- Peter Kim
We are listening and telling stories, we are listening to them and finding out what they want to say to the world and we are showing them how to do that in the new media world
- garyvee
The concept of "personal branding" has rapidly grown, correlated to your own rise. You're an independent - how does personal branding apply to people in corporations?
I've heard Seth Godin recommend that people find another place to work if they can't pursue their passion there. Do you agree with that sentiment?
- Peter Kim
and if u arent doing what u love ...then what are u reallllly doing? ;)
- garyvee
So what advice would you give to people who work in jobs like cleaning office buildings or selling tires? I.e. not white collar people, but more so people who just need to make ends meet?
- Peter Kim
Start talking on the internet about the things u love
- garyvee
seriously ...or do vids, TALK and things happen!
- garyvee
That is, there's a small group of people who were in early on social media stuff, and now there's too much noise.
- Peter Kim
I mean a super duper star? I understand the point but so many more stars are born todaY!
- garyvee
PK I disagree, if I was just turned onto this stuff today, I would get mine!!! If u have the chops u can do this!
- garyvee
It seems like a lot of people try and take the Kayne approach to stardom - i.e. hijack and grab the spotlight where they can...what do you think about that?
- Peter Kim
People need to stop thinking about what can't be done and start thinking about what CAN!~
- garyvee
"Interesting, Sonny. I haven’t gotten a single “pimp my vote” DM, email, phone call, or carrier pigeon. So I’ve been finding interesting panels through blog posts and comments like this one."
- Peter Kim