DISQUS

Why isn't this on Listopia, hmmm?

I LOVE your three rules of blogging. Totally against the grain of everything I've read elsewhere (problogger, scoble, garrett, brogan). I couldn't agree more, and it goes some way to assuaging my (unjustified) guilty feelings about my own blogging practices. Nice one.

I can really identify with this, as an anti-social / introverted geek who loves social media but whose actual friends - in spite of having saome pretty geeky pursuits themselves - are not participating with me.

I run a closed phpbb forum where we do talk to each other daily. But I'd love it if I could get them on Twitter, or to comment on my blog, or to blog themselves. No luck so far. In spite of 2 of them being programmers, 1 a semantic web search expert, and another a phd student in MMORPG psychology!

The only way to get people to grok this stuff is for them to have a go - but you can only lead the horse to water....

I like the idea of divorcing the cultural shift from the technology that's enabling it.

This is about government being more collaborative, open and participatory - by whatever means.

From Marije - "6. Go into that crowded pub; don’t open up an empty one yourself" this anaolgy is fantastic, I am going to start using it to illustrate the point.

I love it. For two reasons:

1. It's so reassuring to know that I have been doing it right. This is exactly how I got my social web presence (or personal online brand) going. And it's the advice I give to others back at work. But...

2. It's better written and more concise, and now I can just point them to this :)

On the listening front, I recently blogged a round-up of 4 methods and 40 tools for listening. I won't deep link it here, for fear of becoming *that guy*. But if you're interested, seek me out!

Hey, one day it might even cure cancer. It's certainly likely to help!

This is a very handy precis for bloggers, who may not need a full blown immersion in SEO. In fact, in the corporate blogging world this is just what you need: something short and sweet that won't scare anyone off.

Re thoughtfulness about who/how you link, I saw a blog post recently (can't for the life of me find it now) about the wisdom or otherwise of always defaulting to Wikipedia for definitions. It's become a blogger's staple, but the net result is such huge googlerank dominance by wikipedia that nothing can beat it. Made me stop and think. (But I STILL link to wikipedia...)

That's a great set of slides isn't it? I picked up on it on my blog at http://neilojwilliams.net/missioncreep/2008/08/... and had a few useful comments, including one from the slides' author.

It's certainly inspired me to give a few similar presentations, and to share them on slideshare - although finding the time to clean them up and upload them is proving trickier...