Comments on: Get Me, I’m Givin’ Out Wings http://wordymouth.com/2007/07/20/get-me-im-givin-out-wings/ A bloviation on the practice of public relations. Thu, 04 Mar 2010 03:16:51 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc hourly 1 By: Wanted: Highly Motivated Individual to Drink Beer and Talk to Buds Behind My Barn | wordymouth.com http://wordymouth.com/2007/07/20/get-me-im-givin-out-wings/comment-page-1/#comment-10056 Wanted: Highly Motivated Individual to Drink Beer and Talk to Buds Behind My Barn | wordymouth.com Tue, 24 Mar 2009 21:43:44 +0000 http://wordymouth.com/2007/07/20/get-me-im-givin-out-wings/#comment-10056 [...] railed against this cheerleading in the past (see Publicity is Ruining Social Media, Get me, I’m Givin’ Out Wings or Cluetrain Rides Again (and misses some arrows).) Cheerleading to support an exciting new model [...] [...] railed against this cheerleading in the past (see Publicity is Ruining Social Media, Get me, I’m Givin’ Out Wings or Cluetrain Rides Again (and misses some arrows).) Cheerleading to support an exciting new model [...]

]]> By: Eric Eggertson http://wordymouth.com/2007/07/20/get-me-im-givin-out-wings/comment-page-1/#comment-6316 Eric Eggertson Fri, 20 Jul 2007 22:25:41 +0000 http://wordymouth.com/2007/07/20/get-me-im-givin-out-wings/#comment-6316 The idea that the *quality* of your interactions can be measured with a tool like that one seems pretty far-fetched. I like the idea that it in some way acknowledges that some people are stretching beyond a single platform to communicate with others. Just because I'm a serial joiner of social networking sites doesn't mean I'm worthy of being #27 on the list. I'll take the momentary attention, but I don't rate myself as more influential than hundred of other bloggers I respect who don't show up on the list. The idea that the *quality* of your interactions can be measured with a tool like that one seems pretty far-fetched. I like the idea that it in some way acknowledges that some people are stretching beyond a single platform to communicate with others.

Just because I’m a serial joiner of social networking sites doesn’t mean I’m worthy of being #27 on the list. I’ll take the momentary attention, but I don’t rate myself as more influential than hundred of other bloggers I respect who don’t show up on the list.

]]> By: Michael Tangeman http://wordymouth.com/2007/07/20/get-me-im-givin-out-wings/comment-page-1/#comment-6315 Michael Tangeman Fri, 20 Jul 2007 21:17:09 +0000 http://wordymouth.com/2007/07/20/get-me-im-givin-out-wings/#comment-6315 Fully agree that it's WAY too early to be measuring social media influence. What I see going on is people fiddling with all these new social media technologies and platforms trying to figure out ways to actually utilize them -- like inventors or tinkerers looking for ways to apply the science and in the market-driven economies we inhabit, applied means "monetized." Problem is that many of the forms never existed and that has stood the old "form follows function" maxim on its head. The function in many cases hasn't even been imagined and you've got people playing with these forms ad infinitum trying to figure out what to do with them. Because some of them are incessantly tinkering with the new media platforms, does that make them more "influential"? Only if they come up with real killer applications of the technology ... maybe with all the tinkering, they will. But, for now, spending endless hours twittering and powncing just means ... they've got a lot of time on their hands. Fully agree that it’s WAY too early to be measuring social media influence. What I see going on is people fiddling with all these new social media technologies and platforms trying to figure out ways to actually utilize them — like inventors or tinkerers looking for ways to apply the science and in the market-driven economies we inhabit, applied means “monetized.”

Problem is that many of the forms never existed and that has stood the old “form follows function” maxim on its head. The function in many cases hasn’t even been imagined and you’ve got people playing with these forms ad infinitum trying to figure out what to do with them.

Because some of them are incessantly tinkering with the new media platforms, does that make them more “influential”? Only if they come up with real killer applications of the technology … maybe with all the tinkering, they will. But, for now, spending endless hours twittering and powncing just means … they’ve got a lot of time on their hands.

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