Comments on: Social Media – Do Conversations Scale? http://redcatco.com/blog/communication/social-media-do-conversations-scale/ Connecting People With Technology Tue, 09 Mar 2010 10:00:18 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Mayank Dhingra http://redcatco.com/blog/communication/social-media-do-conversations-scale/comment-page-1/#comment-7675 Mayank Dhingra Thu, 25 Dec 2008 08:57:19 +0000 http://redcatco.com/?p=1088#comment-7675 Nice post. I didn't see Facebook Pages from an asymmetrical point of view and as far as brodcast is concerned its neither good or bad. It's all situational. For a news source the asymmetry is not really a concern while it works almost other way around for people. Scaling conversations(especially one to one) around an individual isn't easy as there always will be resource constraints but many to many conversations can scale like anything. For ex: if there's a comment every minute you might not be able to reply back to everyone and the conversation will come to end sooner or later but if some people from the list start replying to other people's comments this conversation can go on forever. Here's something I wrote about conversations and how to make them last longer http://mayank.name/blog/2008/09/19/conversations-whos-doing-what/ Would like to know what you think about it. Thanks Nice post.

I didn’t see Facebook Pages from an asymmetrical point of view and as far as brodcast is concerned its neither good or bad. It’s all situational. For a news source the asymmetry is not really a concern while it works almost other way around for people.

Scaling conversations(especially one to one) around an individual isn’t easy as there always will be resource constraints but many to many conversations can scale like anything. For ex: if there’s a comment every minute you might not be able to reply back to everyone and the conversation will come to end sooner or later but if some people from the list start replying to other people’s comments this conversation can go on forever.

Here’s something I wrote about conversations and how to make them last longer

http://mayank.name/blog/2008/09/19/conversations-whos-doing-what/

Would like to know what you think about it.

Thanks

]]> By: Benjamin http://redcatco.com/blog/communication/social-media-do-conversations-scale/comment-page-1/#comment-7495 Benjamin Mon, 15 Dec 2008 14:02:21 +0000 http://redcatco.com/?p=1088#comment-7495 Thank you, Anjali! Your comments are well thought out too! This was the topic of the talk I gave at MediaCamp this weekend. Post incoming! I look forward to your thoughts... Thank you, Anjali! Your comments are well thought out too! This was the topic of the talk I gave at MediaCamp this weekend. Post incoming! I look forward to your thoughts…

]]> By: Anjali http://redcatco.com/blog/communication/social-media-do-conversations-scale/comment-page-1/#comment-7475 Anjali Sun, 14 Dec 2008 17:15:57 +0000 http://redcatco.com/?p=1088#comment-7475 This post is very well thought-out and postulated. I think you're making some very good points. I guess the issue is that people use broadcast tools like Twitter for different reasons. I know people who use it only to follow and be followed by a set of people they know - if there are others who find what they say interesting and follow them as well, they don't worry about it. There are others, who have followers in the 10,000's, who use it purely to broadcast - i.e numbers matter. And there are others who use it as a combination of both. I don't think social media scales though - yet. I think it would be interesting to think about the aims of such an occurrence. Technically, e-mail should help everyone communicate with anyone (a genius CEO etc etc) but the fact is that this 'someone' can't really be bothered to reply to everyone, or simply does not have the time. Then again that's true of everyone, isn't it?! This post is very well thought-out and postulated. I think you’re making some very good points. I guess the issue is that people use broadcast tools like Twitter for different reasons. I know people who use it only to follow and be followed by a set of people they know – if there are others who find what they say interesting and follow them as well, they don’t worry about it. There are others, who have followers in the 10,000’s, who use it purely to broadcast – i.e numbers matter. And there are others who use it as a combination of both. I don’t think social media scales though – yet. I think it would be interesting to think about the aims of such an occurrence. Technically, e-mail should help everyone communicate with anyone (a genius CEO etc etc) but the fact is that this ’someone’ can’t really be bothered to reply to everyone, or simply does not have the time. Then again that’s true of everyone, isn’t it?!

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