Comments on: Social Media Snippets

By: Michael Krotscheck

Michael Krotscheck — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 01:02:54 +0000

Don’t forget IRC. Personal reservable handles, your own site (bots), filesharing and so forth. Before that you had BBS’s. We will find ways to use any social medium - identifying the constants that traverse them all and were key to their success will ensure that your own ventures into the media-du-jour will be successful.

By: Michael Krotscheck

Michael Krotscheck — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 01:00:32 +0000

I certainly hope so. Well, social protocols, etiquette, and a really good spam filter

By: Rachel Luxemburg

Rachel Luxemburg — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 03:54:34 +0000

Thanks for the link!

By: Steve Nimmons

Steve Nimmons — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 13:37:53 +0000

I think we had Social Media long before the Internet. Call in radio shows, newspaper letters pages, all slightly more analogue and sluggish, but really all about the same thing - opinion and discussion. Where we haven’t been before is embracing all of this technology inside the enterprise.

I agree with the post though, communication rules remain largely the same and are governed by social, legal and cultural conventions. The channels have changed for sure, and the reach and speed of publication - but social protocols and etiquette hopefully hold the potential negatives in check.

By: Andrea Hill

Andrea Hill — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 05:29:01 +0000

> nothing new about Social Media.

Agreed. Imagine a site where people can post what they want, and join groups, and “friend” people and leave each other comments and create polls. Wow, a social network! Uh, no. livejournal, circa 1997.

Ok then. How about a place they can have a personal URL to share with people, and post stuff, and easily navigate to other sites, and their personal space is located in a virtual city with people of like-minded interests? Geocities, 1995 maybe?

It’s just mainstream now.