Danny Brown - Latest Comments in The True Meaning of Social Media

Re: The True Meaning of Social Media

Danny — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 11:48:39 -0000

Ahh, thanks, that makes sense - I thought you had to update sites you left comments on - consider me feeling suitably foolish... ;-)

Re: The True Meaning of Social Media

CG — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 00:52:46 -0000

@Danny

When you were adding URLs on http://www.backtype.com/hom... (this was previously on http://www.backtype.com/hom..., you added grehatzone.com in your list of Websites. That's why all those comments were attributed to you.

Re: The True Meaning of Social Media

Danny — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 00:20:33 -0000

Thanks, although I'm unsure how I had claimed the comments - perhaps you could explain further?

Re: The True Meaning of Social Media

CG — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 00:15:25 -0000

@George, @Danny

Danny, you had claimed greyhatzone.com's comments, which is why they showed up on your profile. We've changed it for you.

Re: The True Meaning of Social Media

Danny — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 12:41:20 -0000

@ George - Interesting - I noticed that too. I wonder if it's something to do with your friend list at BackType - you know, the same as you see other comments on Twitter, FriendFeed, etc? Definitely worth looking into.

Re: The True Meaning of Social Media

Danny — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 12:39:59 -0000

@ The Lovable Rogue (great name by the way!)

Interesting points you raise. I agree with your view that social media hasn't taken off with as many people as the sites might have us believe - I've yet to see an overall figure with user numbers for everyone. I also feel that social media is the online equivalent to the consumer electronics field - the early adopters will "get it" while everyone else will wait until the price comes down (in social media's case, when the amount to choose from has settled).

With regards a collaborative agreement, again I agree. If companies and/or individuals can truly work together to bring a product, service or similar to market and accept collaboration allows more chance of success than going it alone, then we may finally see social media reach its undoubted potential.

Thanks for reading and sharing your views, appreciate it.

Re: The True Meaning of Social Media

George Cozma — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 07:54:57 -0000

Speaking of Backtype. Why do my comments appear on your account? Something's really fishy here.

Regards, George

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Re: The True Meaning of Social Media

The Lovable Rogue — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 05:21:12 -0000

I think the reason for the above is that the social media truly facilitates the collaborative abilities of individuals. As collaboration becomes easier, people share knowledge based on the assumption that 'We' is more powerful than 'I'. I'm dubious as to whether the current uptake of social media is as high as reported by some analysts, however you are right; these platforms do offer a fantastic opportunity to collaborate and to provide solutions the likes of which would be completely unfeasible within even the largest organisations. Unfortunately, it is my opinion that at present there is still a reluctance to undertake such collaborative efforts because it makes profiting from the final product difficult. As collaboration really takes off though, organisations will be tasked with devising new means of profiting from the collaborative outcomes. I imagine that whoever devises an effective collaboration profit strategy first will create a significant competitive advantage for themselves in the Age of Social Media.