Comments on: Best Practices in Social Media

By: Steve Lawson

Steve Lawson — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 23:43:52 +0000

Doh! Still haven’t done this – will do it this week – feel free to bug me, Ben, via DMs etc.

By: Benjamin

Benjamin — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 21:36:33 +0000

Ian, I think the challenge is: it is easy to say, but hard to do. In conversations today I was reminded quite how high the technology and language barriers are for people getting into social media. It is great to have folks like you encouraging people in.

Liz, once again, thank you for your encouragement! I couldn’t find any fault with what you wrote, and strongly agree that we are saying complimentary things – if indeed I’m not saying exactly what you were in reality. Social media is tied up in so many different things, the different threads fly off, but ultimately come back to the same thing: The commitment to making a better ’space’ for us all.

The words ‘agile and powerful’ are ringing in my ears… I’m going to mull them over!

By: Liz Strauss

Liz Strauss — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 14:21:48 +0000

Hi Benjamin,
For starting out with not much to say, you put forth a strong and profound article here. I think our ideas compliment each other. What I was positing is that we can reach beyond what folks suppose they are doing to actually watch what they do — in the actions speak louder sense. Your “listen actively” is an agile and powerful response to what we see when we do that.

By: Ian

Ian — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 13:39:09 +0000

I whole-heartedly agree with your answer, Benjamin.

My experience is that people who do well from social media are the ones who genuinely have something to offer other users – and they can do that by finding to what others genuinely want.