Comments on: Promoting awareness or crossing the line? http://www.fullcirc.com/2007/12/04/promoting-awareness-or-crossing-the-line/ connections for a changing world, online and offline... Wed, 08 Feb 2012 17:42:29 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: Beth Kanter http://www.fullcirc.com/2007/12/04/promoting-awareness-or-crossing-the-line/comment-page-1/#comment-24 Beth Kanter Sun, 09 Dec 2007 20:07:30 +0000 http://www.fullcirc.com/wp/2007/12/04/promoting-awareness-or-crossing-the-line/#comment-24 the other day on a listserv someone asked the best way to pitch bloggers. Another person said to go friend all the a-list bloggers and then set up a plugin so that your blog will automatically post to the twitter. I responded that if I see this type of thing - I would unfollow the person. I want to be in conversation with someone on twitter - and in some conversations people do point to their blog posts or other links - but automated responses strikes me a form of spam ... But on the other hand, I realized that it can be efficient. I wonder if there was some way to be selected? BTW, loving the new look on the blog the other day on a listserv someone asked the best way to pitch bloggers. Another person said to go friend all the a-list bloggers and then set up a plugin so that your blog will automatically post to the twitter. I responded that if I see this type of thing – I would unfollow the person. I want to be in conversation with someone on twitter – and in some conversations people do point to their blog posts or other links – but automated responses strikes me a form of spam …

But on the other hand, I realized that it can be efficient. I wonder if there was some way to be selected?

BTW, loving the new look on the blog

]]> By: D'Arcy Norman http://www.fullcirc.com/2007/12/04/promoting-awareness-or-crossing-the-line/comment-page-1/#comment-17 D'Arcy Norman Tue, 04 Dec 2007 19:59:08 +0000 http://www.fullcirc.com/wp/2007/12/04/promoting-awareness-or-crossing-the-line/#comment-17 I lean the other way. Several of the people I follow on Twitter post automatic updates whenever they blog something. I like the immediacy of it (I can read what they wrote while it's still fresh in their head, so feedback is more relevant). And, if I don't have a moment to read their post, I ignore the tweet and wait for it to show up in my aggregator. I lean the other way. Several of the people I follow on Twitter post automatic updates whenever they blog something. I like the immediacy of it (I can read what they wrote while it’s still fresh in their head, so feedback is more relevant). And, if I don’t have a moment to read their post, I ignore the tweet and wait for it to show up in my aggregator.

]]> By: Jay Fienberg http://www.fullcirc.com/2007/12/04/promoting-awareness-or-crossing-the-line/comment-page-1/#comment-16 Jay Fienberg Tue, 04 Dec 2007 19:30:39 +0000 http://www.fullcirc.com/wp/2007/12/04/promoting-awareness-or-crossing-the-line/#comment-16 Somewhat ironically, I just read this because you posted a link via Twitter. I think the Twitter responses to your question are interesting especially in the "medium is the message" sense: they get across the point that people who follow you via Twitter don't want messages from a robot claiming to be you. But, lacking space for more extended thoughts, the comments about robots + twitter are pretty shallow with regards to your "promoting awareness" question. Twitter's success is significantly tied to the way it eschews hardcoding social conventions. It's a relatively blank-slate mechanism. So, while, in your social circle, robot-generated-Nancy is seen as definitively inferior to human-generated-Nancy, Twitter, as a mechanism, supports social circles that might exist around robot-generated-so-and-sos as equally as it supports human-generated social circles. A good analogy is looking at the comments above about RSS. 4-5 years ago, it was not uncommon for people to debate about whether it made sense to include whole posts in RSS, or just headlines, e.g., people would argue that RSS is for notification in the form of headlines / excerpts, but not for full content. As with RSS, Twitter can work for a lot of different things and different uses by different people. Somewhat ironically, I just read this because you posted a link via Twitter.

I think the Twitter responses to your question are interesting especially in the “medium is the message” sense: they get across the point that people who follow you via Twitter don’t want messages from a robot claiming to be you. But, lacking space for more extended thoughts, the comments about robots + twitter are pretty shallow with regards to your “promoting awareness” question.

Twitter’s success is significantly tied to the way it eschews hardcoding social conventions. It’s a relatively blank-slate mechanism. So, while, in your social circle, robot-generated-Nancy is seen as definitively inferior to human-generated-Nancy, Twitter, as a mechanism, supports social circles that might exist around robot-generated-so-and-sos as equally as it supports human-generated social circles.

A good analogy is looking at the comments above about RSS. 4-5 years ago, it was not uncommon for people to debate about whether it made sense to include whole posts in RSS, or just headlines, e.g., people would argue that RSS is for notification in the form of headlines / excerpts, but not for full content. As with RSS, Twitter can work for a lot of different things and different uses by different people.

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