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Re: Taking the "Me" Out of Social Media

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Re: Taking the "Me" Out of Social Media

lara — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 00:22:40 -0000

HI....................
Really this post is very nice .But I am new to this social media.
Though theae are excellent and valuable points.
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lara

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Re: Taking the "Me" Out of Social Media

Tiffany Monhollon — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 09:30:18 -0000

One of the biggest values of participating in social media is, to me, the relationship-building aspect. My blogger friend Chuck Westbrook recently started a tribe leading people to read little-known blogs together and shine the light on great content with no readers.

http://chuckwestbrook.com/g...

There are lots of great examples of this type of share-first leadership, and what's cool is, these are the people who deserve to see their own impact grow as they help others grow theirs!

Re: Taking the "Me" Out of Social Media

Sherry — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 10:58:16 -0000

As a newbie to the social media world, I hadn't really noticed this because I am taking a class on social media and I am always desperate for more information. Now that you mention it, many of the sources I have come across make you dig for the valuable information under all of the "me".

Re: Taking the "Me" Out of Social Media

Len Kendall — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 19:47:10 -0000

Good observation. Perhaps sometimes forget that a blog is a public log and not a personal journal. I actually recall one of the basics of my a college marketing course I took at Purdue was never use the first person in marketing documents. Now that isn't to say there are no exceptions, but perhaps a blog post can have more credibility if the source isn't pointed out to be a specific person?

Re: Taking the "Me" Out of Social Media

Dora Crow aka LaughingCrow — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 13:47:12 -0000

Hi Scott,

I'm new to Twitter, and basically I've been posting about people and links to websites that have something of value to offer. I was wondering if I was doing Twitter "right" but that's just who I am and what felt "right" to me. (A friend recently told me I was a "sneezer".)

Nice to find out that there are other like-minded people out there - thank you for a terrific article and all the links you provided here.

P.S. I found you on Twitter.

Re: Taking the "Me" Out of Social Media

Rusty Speidel — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 15:33:32 -0000

Agree!! This point of view just launched my blog, my first post.

Re: Taking the "Me" Out of Social Media

palmettoequipment — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 15:44:09 -0000

This is the type of blogging that I have worked on for almost 2 years for my father's company- a small business in Charleston, SC that supplies land surveyors. I have built an entire social network exclusively for professional land surveyors http://landsurveyorsunited.... and its going quite well. Why did i do this? not for myself but because the industry needs more empowering ways of sharing information and experience. Ultimately, I haven't done this for myself..my career is completely different (as a real estate broker in NYC). I like to praise surveyors for their work in order for other surveyors to see that their hard work can be praised and learned from if it is just put out there for others to see and share.. Hope this is what you were looking for. Great Blog!
Justin

Re: Taking the "Me" Out of Social Media

Rachel Happe — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 11:06:18 -0000

Nice post Scott - I was reading the top of your post...and just thinking about Aaron leaving Mzinga and this is one thing Aaron does really well. But to be really specific about what he does that makes him talented at this relationship game is that he draws people out, asks a lot of questions, recognizes and promotes others, and riffs off of others' ideas.

And at the end of it all, the impression I have of Aaron is not necessarily that he is promoting ideas himself but he is promoting those who share his vision, and thus promotes his agenda but by including a large circle of others.

It's an impressive skill and one that I will miss having around at Mzinga on a regular basis.

Re: Taking the "Me" Out of Social Media

Marc Meyer — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 10:12:20 -0000

Great post Scott, In fact I had just mentioned you and some of the others you highlighted in a rebuttal of a blog post of the top 50 most important people in social media. You guys were not on the list and I thought that therefore negated the purity of the list. I agree though we need to check ego at the door.

Re: Taking the "Me" Out of Social Media

JP — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 02:15:28 -0000

Shannon, you brought a funny too! Seriously, I smiled. You're right -- it could be because there's a grain of "truthiness" to the post.

Scott, killer post. Thanks.

Re: Taking the "Me" Out of Social Media

Scott Scotch — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 15:37:28 -0000

Very nice! Thanks for the information. Since recently immersing myself in the online community, I have learned so much that I wonder why I didn't do this earlier. And it's in thanks to this post and information I've read from some of the people you listed.

Thank you very much!

Re: Taking the "Me" Out of Social Media

Kyle F Flaherty — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 15:34:36 -0000

Bravo Scott, something that needs to be said and folks, myself included, should all look in the mirror. Here is where social media can police itself, however, because you can quickly un-follow their blogs, Twitter, etc. Something I've been doing with more regularity as of late.

The other thing I wish people would do less of is tell us about their stats...it is becoming nearly unbearable. I've even criticized myself for this, yep, nobody is exempt from my wrath. Wait, is that being narcissistic?

Re: Taking the "Me" Out of Social Media

Meryl Steinberg (Meryl333) — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 15:33:13 -0000

Thank you for commenting the obsession many have with follower numbers, blog statistics, and gratuitous name-dropping---it IS a bore. Add to that the overuse of the word "awesome" to describe everyone a writer / twitterer happens to cross paths with at a social media event. (with the exception of present company--of course).

Re: Taking the "Me" Out of Social Media

BobCargill — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 12:48:23 -0000

I agree with everything you say in this post, Scott, about social media practitioners – like marketers – needing to be more you-oriented in their communications. And, yes, Chris Brogan is a perfect example of a blogger who is all about his constituency, someone who shares a wealth of information and insight in his posts and presentations. I was fortunate to meet him in person recently at the Inbound Marketing Summit in Boston, and he was indeed “affable,” as you say, charismatic and gregarious, a quintessential role model, if you ask me, for the social media set.

Re: Taking the "Me" Out of Social Media

John Carson — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 12:28:22 -0000

Nice post, Scott. But you do have to include an element of ME in there too; the fact that you picked up on this subject means it has affected YOU, right? (Scott: "Hmm, how does this subject affect ME as a person?")

Hope you get the point I'm trying to make!

Expanded on it here a few weeks ago: http://blogs.gcigroup.com/f...

Cheers,
JC.

Re: Taking the "Me" Out of Social Media

doughaslam — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 12:01:40 -0000

Peter - But now you're telling us about your magnanimous gesture. congratulations! ;)

In all seriousness, there is a balance to it. The narcissism is in the service of building our own credibility. To Scott's - and your- point, spending that credibility capital on others is important

Re: Taking the "Me" Out of Social Media

Sharon Couto — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 11:44:17 -0000

Enlightening post, Scott.

I am new to social media and trying to figure it all out. I am old enough to remember 2 and 4-party phone lines as a kid, so we've come a long way, baby! I read and re-read your post, and I read all of your comments. (I found my daughter, Audrey McClelland and my husband, Barry, among them!) And then something struck me. I read comments. I enjoy the give and take of bloggers/Twitterers/commenters, and I always find the engagement of the bloggers/Twitterers/readers/commenters the most interesting... and where I generally learn the most.

I read all kinds of blogs. Giant ones. Small mommy-ones. I can lurk. I can answer. I can engage. And I can find that give-and-take... the honest, how-can-we-help-each-other in this vast new arena. That comes from comments and responses; honest, well-thought, helpful, intriguing, interesting, even controversial engagement. People who need people. Like the song!

Just some thoughts...

Re: Taking the "Me" Out of Social Media

Peter Kim — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 11:20:40 -0000

Hard to disagree with anything here. But isn't a public shout out very close to name dropping and perpetuating "me"-ness?

Consider this - I recently referred a reporter from the Wall Street Journal to a few people as experts in the space, which I assume was appreciated much the same as if they had been linked to in a blog post. It doesn't appear publicly as a magnanimous gesture - and I didn't expect anything in return.

Did I give or get link love? No. Did I take the "me" out of social media? I think so.

Re: Taking the "Me" Out of Social Media

jimstorer — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 10:32:52 -0000

Hey Scott - Great post! Love the list of folks you call out as good social media citizens - obviously you're on the list too.

One point to ponder... I agree that Aaron was the voice of Mzinga and in many cases the line blurred between our brand and his brand. So, how do companies deal with that when a social media evangelist leaves? Hopefully they have a team behind them ready to step into the void, but to reconcile the loss? As more companies adopt social media (and evangelists) in a "free agent" economy this will become an important consideration. I'd love to hear your (and anyone else's) thoughts. Thanks!

Jim | @jstorerj

Re: Taking the "Me" Out of Social Media

doughaslam — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 10:16:28 -0000

Excellent points and reminders for us all, Scott.

For my part, I am working on a blog post: "Top 10 reasons why Monty should have mentioned me in this post"

Re: Taking the "Me" Out of Social Media

David Mullen — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 06:34:37 -0000

This is something that's confused me since diving into the social media sphere this year. While reading lots of great blogs, tweets and a book or two, one of the clear mantras that bubbled up to the surface was the giving nature required of social media.

"you have to give more than you take"
"it's not about you, it's about the community"

...and on and on.

I have to say it sounds great. And as you've pointed out, there are some great examples of people doing just that. But the confusion set in after being around long enough to start to see trends in what some folks were blogging about, tweeting, plurking - you name it.

I'm not talking so much about newbies to the sphere. They may still be trying to figure out the "rules" of this space. But it's interesting - at least to me - to see how many A and B-listers fall into this category. To give them some credit, they do share work by other A and B-listers sometimes, but that even comes off as a bit self-serving to me. As if only those who could push a decent traffic bump their way in return are worthy of their time to share a blog post or something else.

But what do I know. Maybe I'm reading too much into that. I'm no social media expert, after all...

Great discussion starter, Scott.

Re: Taking the "Me" Out of Social Media

Chris Brogan — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 04:18:04 -0000

Piss off, you freak. I love myself and am an egotist. Yeah! I'm so awesome!

You're totally right, of course.

Re: Taking the "Me" Out of Social Media

CJ Guest — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 02:27:10 -0000

So true! I'm a relative newbie to twitter. It's pretty obvious that some who I follow just want to talk about themselves. It gets to be rather noising sometimes, but not enough to unfollow.

I like Chris Brogan's 12-to-1 rule that he uses. He tweets 12 times about something other than himself to every one self-promoting tweet. To be honest, I haven't really paid attention to see if he uses it as a hard-and-fast rule, but I agree he doesn't seem to self-promote as much as some others. Great post!

@cjguest