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Re: http://blog.louisgray.com/2009/05/how-microsoft-views-holes-in-todays.html

jdilwort — Fri, 08 May 2009 13:57:36 -0000

This is really interesting and useful. thanks for sharing! Like others I'm super curious about how the above is going to play out in the Kumo launch, and it's also clear that it is going to be a big summer and Fall for search innovation -- MSFT, IBM's Watson, Swingly, Siri, Wolfram Alpha, Aardvark, Hunch, Scoopler, OneRiot, Duck Duck Go, etc. Yowser!

Re: Josh Dilworth

jdilwort — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 12:19:35 -0000

Connie -- totally agree and I love NML's mission in that sense -- I donate as much of my time to "the cause" as I humanly can, but their/your biz model, as you indicate, is perfect for the kind of evangelism that we need.

Basically, this is all just to say -- you rock.

Re: Josh Dilworth

jdilwort — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 21:33:11 -0000

Rock on -- and I very much appreciate the comment. Rubber-meets-road is where it starts and ends -- the strategy and creative thinking and "pie-in-the-sky" stuff comes in between. There absolutely a lot of people and firms that do it the "right" way too -- but I think what I'm reacting to is a change I'm seeing that I'd like to nip in the bud -- the idea tactics are "passe" hehe. Great to meet you -- and I'm perusing your own blog now -- rock.

Re: Josh Dilworth

jdilwort — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 21:19:35 -0000

I'm down to donate time, coordinate, and/or promote. Let's connect on next steps offline, but methinks it a great idea. Booya.

Re: Josh Dilworth

Kyle Flaherty — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 15:19:31 -0000

One thing I'd love to do is put together a panel some night in Austin to talk about these issues, a real brainstorm on how people can attract more talent to the PR industry, get better results out of the people they have using the new methods of communications, ideas around billing, etc. Would be cool to have some agency reps, vendor marketers and even a journalist/analyst.

Need to put some thought behind making this happen.

Re: Josh Dilworth

jdilwort — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 20:42:25 -0000

Wow, you've got me thinking too -- great comment. I'd really love to hear your rate about billing rates, etc. -- I totally agree that the model is ripe for disruption.

Project-based billing and retainers also have their own problems, so I am assuming you are suggesting some sort of pay for performance model? I ran some numbers a while back hehe based on a performance model -- and I would be doing muuuch better $$-wise than I am now. Which would rock. But in so doing I'd price myself out of the startup market. You'd have to grade it on a curve of sorts. That said, I still really like the idea. And it has the nice consequence that if you suck, you don't get paid. It allows the market, as it were, to self-correct.

I also agree with your overall point about accountability. I've been around the block enough to see it done well/right, and see it done poorly. And the thing is -- when it's done poorly -- it's done REALLY poorly, and the effects are almost immediate. The program and/or the agency itself and/or the marketing department go right down the tubes. And you're correct -- then everything is justified away. Never underestimate self-preservation!

Well, now we both sound pretty cranky. Ha! But I do think you're correct, and I'm going to continue thinking along these lines, and especially around how to put the "new level of committment" that you talk about into the DNA of our agencies and teams and reportees and bosses.

Re: http://blog.louisgray.com/2009/03/day-zero-of-sxsw-interactive-in-books.html

jdilwort — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 03:55:27 -0000

So glad that you are here and looking forward to the panel;)

Re: About › Startup District

jdilwort — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 16:29:53 -0000

Major props to Colin and John for pulling this site together -- it is beautiful and is indeed the "hub" that Austin needs!

Re: What the heck is PR, anyway?

jdilwort — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 17:37:41 -0000

Thanks, Kyle! I'm working on another post -- "Why PR is a blue collar job" -- I think you'll like it;) Thanks for reading, too, I really appreciate it.

Re: What the heck is PR, anyway?

jdilwort — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 17:05:51 -0000

Heck yeah -- totally agree. And often the priorities for one company/start-up are very different than for another -- imitation is the sincerest for of flattery, but it sure doesn't work when it comes to marketing. Each venture owns a specific moment -- in time, in the market -- and the best PR teams understand this;)

Re: Web 3.0 and Knowability -- Diagram

jdilwort — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 20:01:48 -0000

Kyle, that is awesome that you are doing it, though! I have been really surprised that Austin has a fluent and altruistic semweb community and if there's any way that I can help, lemme know. I had the luck of getting into this stuff very early and learning from some of the best minds around, and so if to any degree I can help pass that knowledge along, game on;)

Also, have you looked at Dapper's Semantify? http://budurl.com/mshe

Re: Web 3.0 and Knowability -- Diagram

jdilwort — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 19:55:09 -0000

Deirdre -- Rock on, many thanks, and if you ever wanna chat about these issues, please send me a line. In the meantime, this preso is the best primer I know of: http://budurl.com/q46j

Re: Falken's Maze

jdilwort — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 19:19:02 -0000

Rest assured, there are any more episodes coming! My Mac hard drive 100% wiped out on me and I a currently engaging with a very expensive data recovery service to get my stuff back (me= did not back up, foolishly). I have a lot of redundancies, but FM is nonetheless suffering. We should finally be back up and running in about a week. Thanks, Andraz!

Re: rizzn's personal blog

jdilwort — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 16:13:28 -0000

Hells yes! Sounds like a great idea, and congrats;)

Re: Taking Stock: Analysis of the Top 5 Technology Blogs

jdilwort — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 15:25:19 -0000

Thanks! Hehehe the InTouch Weekly comment is hilarious. You're right re: crowdsourcing -- but there's a word that I'm looking for and just not finding it. Ideas? There's definitely something there in terms of your openness and embracing of a diversity of opinions and backgrounds. . .and it's unlike Techcrunch, for example -- instead of sleeping on Pete's couch, your writers are in pretty much every case out there living the tech world in some way or another.

Also, congrats on bringing Leslie on board -- LOVE her.

Re: Taking Stock: Analysis of the Top 5 Technology Blogs

jdilwort — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 15:20:47 -0000

Thanks, Joe! And thanks again to FF;) Glad to hear that the analysis echos your own experience -- I often worry that the way we see ourselves within ye olde tech bubble is out of touch with large swaths of the community. . .

Re: Taking Stock: Analysis of the Top 5 Technology Blogs

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Re: Taking Stock: Analysis of the Top 5 Technology Blogs

jdilwort — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 15:18:15 -0000

Thanks, Chris! I'm laughing aloud about your personal branding comment. Hehehe.

;)

Re: Taking Stock: Analysis of the Top 5 Technology Blogs

jdilwort — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 15:16:51 -0000

Thanks dude! Am totally had home sick as a dog today so just finally logged into FF. Rock. on.

Re: Taking Stock: Analysis of the Top 5 Technology Blogs

jdilwort — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 14:01:22 -0000

This definitely falls into the latter category (I think) -- I imagine that are plenty of internal/confidential analyst-y style reports, but nothing public that I can tell. Thanks!

This is part of my great -- "empty out some room in my brain by backing it up on paper" initiative -- very therapeutic.

;)

Re: Josh Dilworth

jdilwort — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 13:14:55 -0000

Hehehe I would think that the percentage would go considerably down. . .

Re: rizzn's personal blog

rizzn — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 16:29:53 -0000

Heh - I thought you might like this one. As you know, I welcome our new robot overlords, and look forward to their *kind and benevolent* rule. You hear that, Googlebot? Kind and benevolent!

Re: rizzn's personal blog

jdilwort — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 16:17:40 -0000

Great post and I heartily agree;)

Re: Out of the Navels and Into the Mirrors

jdilwort — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 18:49:34 -0000

I definitely, definitely agree that these are crucial questions. There is so much overlap these days I can barely make it all out myself, and it's just getting more and more difficult. We're (all) becoming multi-hyphenates, to steal an oft-used noun from Variety, hehe. Great post. I always point clients to the disclosures on All Things D as the prime example of best practice.

Another question is, "why are we having these problems now?" -- i.e. in many senses we are a self-regulating community, and this continuing meme suggests that we are in a very regulatory mood indeed. Have there been an unusually high number of transgressions over the last year? Has the nature of communication/conversation, as enabled by technology, changed such that we are seeing a greater opportunity to commit and cover up (or simply not disclose) unethical behavior – and such we are therefore more guarded than ever before? Or is there just too much FAIL going around on every side of the coin and its that simple – quality control?

I'm gonna go for it here at the risk of getting too academic because I'm reminded of good ‘ole sociology class, and in particular Durkheim. I'll start by saying -- the blogosphere is an educational system.

You could argue that the blogosphere is more business than education-oriented, but I would respectfully disagree. The function of the blogosphere is to educate the uninitiated, and each other – about issues, trends, companies big and small, etc. There are many interested parties attempting to influence this educational system, but per Durkheim this is essentially the way of things.

We learn, of course, in many respects, in order to leverage that knowledge for future success (however you define it), but this is no different than most educational systems at their core. We learn (and teach) in order to discover (and subsequently evolve) collective beliefs, and therefore the system we call home.

The best summary I could find of his argument on education is here:
http://www.criticism.com/philosophy/durkheim-on...

In his “Selecting Writings”, Durkeim says: “Because the system of education arises from the common beliefs of society's members, it is a product of collective, not individual, thought. Thus, a system of education, being a product of the collectivity, necessarily embodies those values that are expressed by the conscious collective. As a society's collective values change, the educational system reflects these changes.”

That is, our values are changing.

And to directly quote Steve Hoenish, whose article is at the URL above, “while Durkheim was interested in the ways institutional systems embody and reflect the values of society, he was also concerned with how such systems as education could foster a society better suited to deal with the changes wrought by modernization and industrialization. . . More specifically, Durkheim felt that many of the values inherited from the past had begun to lose their appeal, and the result was a dissolution of moral beliefs that led to malaise.”

Malaise indeed! Our current system does not support and/or reinforce the feeling that we are operating in a way that is strident with a set of collective values.

The takeaway for me here is that our educational system is not effectively disseminating our collective values. Which is just a fancy way of stating – we say one thing, while we do another. The two are not properly aligned.

The solution?

In “Education and Society” Durkeim wrote that “We must change from being egoists, responding greedily to our own endless self-centered desires, into moral citizens, responding in terms of our duty to the state and our loyalty to something greater than ourselves.”

Not an easy thing, maybe, but it’s what the good doctor ordered. . .and for him it started with the influence of two groups – families and teachers.

Who are our families on the Web? Who are our teachers?

That I suppose is grounds for another post altogether;)

Re: Josh Dilworth

jdilwort — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 18:51:57 -0000

Nice, and thanks for the ref Mark, checking it out now. . .