Comments on: Understanding Social Media Made Easy — Just Do It

By: Dean Rodgers

Dean Rodgers — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 08:33:19 +0000

You get some of the credit for that.

By: Dean Rodgers

Dean Rodgers — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 08:31:41 +0000

Like everything else, you need to find a balance, but I don’t think you have to tweet every day to be effective. You should have tools and methods set up so that when people are discussing a particular issue or company or product that you are able to find out about it and participate in a timely fashion if appropriate.

I have found that keeping your twitter tools running in the background can be useful, but it can also be so distracting it becomes hard to get other work done. It is OK to turn them off from time to time.

By: Dean Rodgers

Dean Rodgers — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 08:31:15 +0000

Perhaps — and I do find I have to turn off all Twitter monitoring to focus on projects. Still, I see value. I saw a measurable spike in blog and Website traffic when I started up on Twitter. I’m with you when it comes to the online games or virtual worlds. I want no part of marketing withing Second Life.

Glad to see you commenting on here by the way.

Thx.

By: Loring Wirbel

Loring Wirbel — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 07:40:28 +0000

I think your original gut analysis was correct. Twitter is narcissistic, pointless, and dumb. It doesn’t matter to me how many people use it. Millions use broadband multiplayer online games, and I find them insufferably dumb too. Sometimes, being an elitist is a good thing, it saves you from wasting time on mindless activity.

By: Meryl Bennan

Meryl Bennan — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 07:43:04 +0000

How much time each day to you spend twittering to be effective? It almost seems to me that for this to work you need to make it a full time job. Is this true?

By: LT Public Relations

LT Public Relations — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 07:41:53 +0000

We’re all becoming social media junkies (even LT Public Relations) and it has quickly become one of the most powerful uses of communicating–there’s no denying that . . . it may soon surpass the telephone.

People twitter, and there is no end in sight. . . but it’s saturating the Internet and is an obstacle to truly identifying what is genuinely credible.

Do we trust our friends recommendations/twitters? Maybe. Do we trust a non-stop tweeter that won’t, um, shut up about this or that? That’s the issue . . . twittering is saturating the Internet.

Nonetheless, it is an official “effective” tool . . . only if it comes from the right source.

By: David Naylor

David Naylor — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 07:45:16 +0000

Right on Dean.

Trust from online would-be consumer, is more trustworthy than the shiny salespeople/ad — why, would-be consumer is not gaining from their testimony.

By: Janet Johnson

Janet Johnson — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 07:44:20 +0000

Hi Dean,

I’ve been monitoring the peanut butter recall on Twitter, and predicted two days ago – based on what I was seeing there – that dog treats would be next. And I woke up this morning to the news that PetSmart had recalled some of theirs as a result.

I still swear by Twitter, and am glad to see you’re finding it useful as a PR tool!