Comments on: Podcast and Challenge: How do we move the social media conversation past the converted?

By: Carin Reilly

Carin Reilly — Fri, 16 Sep 2011 00:06:21 +0000

Als Kind ist jeder ein Künstler. Die Schwierigkeit liegt darin, als Erwachsener einer zu bleiben.

By: Mercia

Mercia — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 16:28:28 +0000

Well said.

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Wed, 26 Mar 2008 00:48:08 +0000

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By: On The Juice « OnlineMarketer blog

On The Juice « OnlineMarketer blog — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 11:21:50 +0000

[...] have time to download it, I’ll explain in this blog post. Jaffe Juice #107 centered around Sarah Robbins’ challenge about taking new media (blogs, twitter, del.icio.us, Flickr, Facebook, etc.) out of the marketing [...]

By: Mitch Joel - Twist Image

Mitch Joel - Twist Image — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 01:40:02 +0000

ok, ok… I got really inspired:

http://www.twistimage.com/blog/archives/13-ways-to-move-the-social-media-conversation-past-the-converted/

thanks Sarah!

By: Sean Maney

Sean Maney — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 01:02:10 +0000

You pose a great question. It’s one that I’ve written about several times. I believe early adopters have a responsibility to help later adopters understand the technology. These later adopters in turn have the responsibility of helping social media novices understand the content that is out there if they can overcome the obstacles the technology creates.

Here is a related post:

http://www.grinandgrumble.com/?p=51

By: Mitch Joel - Twist Image

Mitch Joel - Twist Image — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 12:15:12 +0000

Hey Sarah – I have plenty more thoughts. Now that I am back from crazy travel and had the chance to review this, listen to Jaffe Juice, etc… I’m going to take a peek at C.C.’s response and then feed something back.

Great post and I think I have a handful of ways to get to where we need to go.

Hey, what would a comment be without a tease of what’s to come as well

By: Joseph Jaffe

Joseph Jaffe — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 21:31:11 +0000

Just got to it myself: http://media.libsyn.com/media/acrossthesound/Jaffe_Juice_106_-_fish_bowls_bubbles_echo_chambers_conversation_starters_and_more.mp3

Sarah – you were inspiring. So now I’ve issued 2 challenges myself to my audience.

Take a listen…

By: Steve Allen

Steve Allen — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 18:26:21 +0000

Great blog Sarah, this my first visit but you’re now permanently book marked
An answer to your questions i don’t really have (yet) but i did get introduced to social networking the way CC outlined on the Managing the Grey podcast. I started at a new job & after the first couple of parties links to pictures on Flickr started to get IM’ed around. So mass adoption of Flickr mainly happened so that people could get revenge & share experiences. Next came the Facebook frenzy & then mass re-adoption of LinkedIn. I even accidently started a Plaxo storm about a month back, which was extremely interesting.
I was consolidating my linkedin, thunderbird, mobile, into yahoo which not only seemed to have the best de-duping function but also synced with my iPhone. At some point in the evening i got a request form an old friend to update my info on their Plaxo account. I thought i might as well get a Plaxo as well & imported my Yahoo addresses. The thing was that i accidently spammed all my contacts, who at first where slightly pissed off, but then most of them joined anyway. It was an interesting week & it would have been very interesting to see how many new members got added to Plaxo just because i was slightly brain-dead one evening.
One thing that I do note that early adopters are getting tired of rebuilding their contact lists.
Hopefully when mass adoption comes there will be single safe way to sign in & portable information between systems. OpenID could work out to be a great initiative if all partners play fair but there are worries that this may breakdown. Flickr is a great example of this, once you have a yahoo account you have an OpenID that can be used across multiple systems. Anyway, i’ll drop bye again soon

By: Kafkaz

Kafkaz — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 20:22:28 +0000

Well . . .glad the fish deal caught on, lol.

But . . .since I’m in the business, now, of not only persuading folks to use these things, but persuading folks to purchase my services in launching them and using them well, it strikes me that the people to ask about what it would take to get them involved are the people who aren’t using these things. In my experience, one of the things it takes to get them eager to hop in is a sense that the competition is doing so. *That* lights a fire under people as little else does. Intellagirl–I echoed your “one way communication is not acceptable” line in a podcast I just put together for some people I’m working with. Three years ago, when I was persuading them they needed a blog, I was met with utterly blank stares. “What in hell is a blog?” was the basic reaction. Now, they see competitors with blogs and podcasts and ecommerce in place, and they want that. They still don’t know what blogs are–not really–but they want one.

I vote for “look at the awesome way your competition is using x,y,z” as the best means to get businesses involved, but that’s still step one. It opens the door for what has to be ongoing discussion about what this fancy new (usually several years old, and sometimes already being replaced) thing can do if used well. Otherwise, it’s easy to end up with something either used poorly (blog as pure ad with no interconnectivy or communication, for instance) or ultimately not used much at all.