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Unlike other Bloggers, I don’t have a passive approach to bullies. I don’t ignore them, I mock them.
Here is a recent Tweet (and my response)
Ashley: ”@BJMendelson is a faggot”
My Direct Messgae: Thanks Ashley. I *really* appreciate your kind words. What an amazing life you must lead to share with us your expert opinion. Bravo!
Ashley was then blocked. Remember: You control the flow of information, not the Trolls. So, I will never know what other gems Ashley might have for me. I better run, my wife will be home any minute.
Here is one from a recent guest post:
This guy wasn’t a troll, but I wanted to have some fun with his blog comment, and I couldn’t do so on the other website because it would have been inappropriate to do so.
“I don’t think real estate agents will take your “don’t look like you’re selling real estate” phrase very kindly.”
1. And you know many real estate agents?
2. You receive fail points for not quoting me accurately. I said:
“But you also want to avoid staged photos that look like you’re selling real estate”
It’s an observation. One about avoiding posed photos, which are common in real estate agent advertisements.
Where is the offense? And if people can’t take a joke, they’re not someone I want to communicate with. Life’s too short to walk on egg shells.
I agree with many of these points, and not surprising, this post reminds me of what I said earlier in the year - after we’ve mastered the technical tools, we’ll all want to go back to the conversation and bi-directionality.
Surprising who?
And no, that’s not what the post was about. The post was about trust. Trust is not the same as conversation. Trust, how I’m using it in this article (and in general) means I won’t let my audience down and they believe me when I say that, so they continue reading / supporting me. It has nothing to do with “bi-directionality”*. Is that even a word?
I disagree with not being in every social network – you may not want to use them all at once (that’s why you create a social media strategy) but you should be on every network.
Idiots believe this. Why would you waste your time on hundreds of different networks instead of focusing your time on where the audience is now, and where the audience will be in the future? If you spread yourself too thin, you will have a mediocre offering (at best) and that will do more harm than good.
Additional fail points for saying “social media strategy”. SBI readers know it’s social publishing, not social media, and strategy doesn’t need the qualifier. It’s still strategy and it should be part of a marketing strategy.
I fully, completely and utterly disagree with video taking precedence over tweets and blog posts. Heck, this post is a post (you didn’t do it on video, did you?)
Oh. I see what you did there. But let me point out: This is a post done for a website that runs … posts! If it was a video blog, I would have used video. What do you think of that smart guy?
Not to mention, all because the medium is not the same as the message, that doesn’t make the message any less true.
You forget # 1 – be explicit about why you need the funding and # 2 – be explicit about how much you need per person (i.e. how spread your crowdfunding effort is – is the network 100 people wide or 100,000 people wide – do you need 40 dollars per person or 4?)
I didn’t forget anything. The article was only related to crowdfunding in a superficial sense. If it was relevant, I would have mentioned it.
The title of your post would better reflect the content if you mentioned it’s primarily focused on crowdfunding. From a first glance it looks like it’s a catch-all blanket post for earning trust online in every circumstance.
Again. The title of the post, and the post itself, is about trust. Now you’re just trying to make yourself look smart to draw attention to what I’m sure is an *awesome* website about how great and wise you are. I wouldn’t know. I didn’t bother to look.**
My two cents :)”
Two cents? Really? Who says that. That’s pretty cheap if you ask me. How about a dollar? Can you give me that? What can anyone do today with two cents? I guess I could rub them together, you know, for luck, in the event I read another comment like this. I guess I can do that. But I’d like the dollar, so if it’s not too late, you can feel free to mail me a dollar for my trouble stemming from the reading this?
Just my $1
*Footnote: Trust does require a little communication, but not a conversation or a give and take. It’s a simple matter of establishing a standard, one you define, and then living up to it. There’s not much of a conversation needed, if any, to do that as long as you stay true to your word.
**Another footnote. I wouldn’t have actually said that to this person specifically, but a lot of times people will leave comments like this to draw attention to themselves and their website, so I added that line in there to point out what is usually the motivation behind a comment like this.
Also: I wouldn’t have been as agressive in addressing these comments. So if I came off as harsh, rest assured I would have been more polite in addressing this. I just couldn’t pass up the opportunity for some humor.
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by Brandon Mendelson on August 15, 2009 · 0 comments
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No bullshit social publishing news and opinions. Follow Brandon.
[It's the weekend. I post whatever I want on Soap Box Included. Usually excerpts from Turbulence In The Airplane Bathroom, but sometimes this ... ]
Unlike other Bloggers, I don’t have a passive approach to bullies. I don’t ignore them, I mock them.
Here is a recent Tweet (and my response)
My Direct Messgae: Thanks Ashley. I *really* appreciate your kind words. What an amazing life you must lead to share with us your expert opinion. Bravo!
Ashley was then blocked. Remember: You control the flow of information, not the Trolls. So, I will never know what other gems Ashley might have for me. I better run, my wife will be home any minute.
Here is one from a recent guest post:
This guy wasn’t a troll, but I wanted to have some fun with his blog comment, and I couldn’t do so on the other website because it would have been inappropriate to do so.
1. And you know many real estate agents?
2. You receive fail points for not quoting me accurately. I said:
“But you also want to avoid staged photos that look like you’re selling real estate”
It’s an observation. One about avoiding posed photos, which are common in real estate agent advertisements.
Where is the offense? And if people can’t take a joke, they’re not someone I want to communicate with. Life’s too short to walk on egg shells.
Surprising who?
And no, that’s not what the post was about. The post was about trust. Trust is not the same as conversation. Trust, how I’m using it in this article (and in general) means I won’t let my audience down and they believe me when I say that, so they continue reading / supporting me. It has nothing to do with “bi-directionality”*. Is that even a word?
Idiots believe this. Why would you waste your time on hundreds of different networks instead of focusing your time on where the audience is now, and where the audience will be in the future? If you spread yourself too thin, you will have a mediocre offering (at best) and that will do more harm than good.
Additional fail points for saying “social media strategy”. SBI readers know it’s social publishing, not social media, and strategy doesn’t need the qualifier. It’s still strategy and it should be part of a marketing strategy.
Oh. I see what you did there. But let me point out: This is a post done for a website that runs … posts! If it was a video blog, I would have used video. What do you think of that smart guy?
Not to mention, all because the medium is not the same as the message, that doesn’t make the message any less true.
I didn’t forget anything. The article was only related to crowdfunding in a superficial sense. If it was relevant, I would have mentioned it.
Again. The title of the post, and the post itself, is about trust. Now you’re just trying to make yourself look smart to draw attention to what I’m sure is an *awesome* website about how great and wise you are. I wouldn’t know. I didn’t bother to look.**
Two cents? Really? Who says that. That’s pretty cheap if you ask me. How about a dollar? Can you give me that? What can anyone do today with two cents? I guess I could rub them together, you know, for luck, in the event I read another comment like this. I guess I can do that. But I’d like the dollar, so if it’s not too late, you can feel free to mail me a dollar for my trouble stemming from the reading this?
Just my $1
*Footnote: Trust does require a little communication, but not a conversation or a give and take. It’s a simple matter of establishing a standard, one you define, and then living up to it. There’s not much of a conversation needed, if any, to do that as long as you stay true to your word.
**Another footnote. I wouldn’t have actually said that to this person specifically, but a lot of times people will leave comments like this to draw attention to themselves and their website, so I added that line in there to point out what is usually the motivation behind a comment like this.
Also: I wouldn’t have been as agressive in addressing these comments. So if I came off as harsh, rest assured I would have been more polite in addressing this. I just couldn’t pass up the opportunity for some humor.
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