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Re: http://daehyunpark.tumblr.com/post/8833441236

Daehyun Park — Fri, 12 Aug 2011 16:24:33 -0000

Re: Your Nasty Little Dopamine Habit (And, The Daily Show Loves Twitter!)

Dan Patterson — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 06:59:45 -0000

Haven't you frequently done that?

Re: A Week Off

Kasondra Brooke — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 03:14:25 -0000

Wyclef?

Re: Your Nasty Little Dopamine Habit (And, The Daily Show Loves Twitter!)

theambershow — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 23:32:03 -0000

I totally don't get your dopamine thing. Getting email doesn't thrill me. Neither does twitter or attention on the internet. It's a dime a dozen, and I know if I wanted more of it all I have to do is show my boobs. Easy.

Re: A Week Off

theambershow — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 16:03:45 -0000

There's a balance between "having fun" and "becoming a prick", and I THINK I've managed to avoid becoming a prick. At the very least, social media isn't part of my personal identity, but making friends is a huge part of who I am. So I try to keep the social media interactions to people I am friends with or would like to be friends with, and I avoid trying to grow any of my networks unorganically. (My two major projects are my blog that I've had for almost 5 years and the Rob+Amber podcast that keeps up with people we already know and love).

I also keep personal things private, and wish others would do the same. Everyone knows my deep hatred of this: "Ho-hum. I'm going to send this sad little tweet so a bunch of people say 'awww, what's wrong buddy?' to me."

Re: A Week Off

Doug_Quance — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 15:22:23 -0000

That's probably good advice for everyone.

I'm ready to cut off the news, as it's nothing but doom and gloom... which made me think of this song from yesteryear:

http://www.youtube.com/watc...

Re: A Week Off

Kris Vollmer — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 15:13:07 -0000

very interesting!!

Re: A Week Off

sarah vela — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 15:10:18 -0000

Dude, that edition of Poetics is so awesome.

Glad I got to be an "IRL" part of your social life last week.

Re: A Week Off

Chris Cavallari — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 14:57:40 -0000

Dan, it's a good idea. You and I have discussed this topic a few times, and you know that I agree with it. I too need to take a step back from social media every so often, especially when I feel myself being sucked in so deep that I'm not being social in the real world. Reading books, being creative, doing professional work all suffer when when we get too involved with the tools of the web. It eventually becomes overwhelming and as a result, detrimental to our creativity, education, and health. Thanks for pointing this out, and I hope that you keep doing so, if only to give the rest of us some perspective as well.

Re: I Never Knew I Liked Queen Until I Rediscovered Slayer

Quentin Lewis — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 12:09:37 -0000

Wait...doesn't Dead Skin Mask + Fat Bottom Girls = Dead Skin Bottom?

Re: I Never Knew I Liked Queen Until I Rediscovered Slayer

Salchert — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 20:46:52 -0000

And I throw up a righteous devil horns to you Dan.

Re: A Few Thoughts on Social Charity

Nicole — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 11:02:33 -0000

I'm a big fan of http://www.charitynavigator... for research. Because they require 4 years of 990 forms they often don't have data on newer charities. While I think it is important to encourage new non-profits I will admit I tend to support ones where I am confident my donation isn't going straight to administrative costs (for example). It would be very helpful for those of us who like to know where our money is going to be able to easily find this information and too often its not.

Well stated dude.

Re: A Few Thoughts on Social Charity

hidama — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 10:25:45 -0000

I agree with this, and your questioning tweets. When donating money to an organization there should be research involved. One should know the goals and operations of the organization, and if you can find out, it would be beneficial to know how much of your donation goes towards the cause (ie. Charity - what % goes to actually making wells) and how much remains with the company for upkeep and advertising. In some cases, just because it's popular or a large organization, does not mean your donation is mostly going for the cause.

Also, I feel that at Twitter's current development, people expect honesty from each other. If someone ways "this is a good cause - donate!" I think most of us have the tendency to believe it's a trustworthy source - even if it's a retweet.

That's why it's utterly refreshing to have journalists on Twitter who are asking questions and finding the first source of tweets/passed on information.

In other words, "thank you!"

Re: A Few Thoughts on Social Charity

Heather Whaling — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 09:53:22 -0000

Dan,

I think we all need to do our due diligence when deciding which charitable cuases to support. Just because a cause is "all the rage" on Twitter, doesn't necessarily mean that it aligns with my beliefs or philosophy toward givnig.

That being said, I think just about anything that can be done to increase awareness about nonprofits is worthwhile. I'm glad to see more and more groups engage social media. In Orlando, the Coalition for the Homeless recently entered the world of social media. Last week, it was abnormally cold here and they needed more blankets. They tweeted the request, which was retweeted by 20 different people. The result was a noticeable uptick in blanket donations thanks to social media.

Generous people who are looking for causes to support need to do their homework and make sure they're supporting the right cause. In this challenging time, there's no shortage of worthy organizations that would benefit from a few extra dollars. I just hope that people don't get caught up in helping the latest trendy nonprofit -- but rather help the ones that are really making a difference.

Thanks for this thought-provoking post.

Heather (@prtini)

Re: Outside the United Nations in Geneva

United nations — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 09:59:25 -0000

The video did not work for me =/

Re: The Language of our Medium (Social Media’s, like, totally passe)

Dan Patterson — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 10:40:19 -0000

Thanks much!

A few of my friends know this, but I do want to say for the record that I am a believer in the medium and really just want us to be a little more self-aware.

Re: The Language of our Medium (Social Media’s, like, totally passe)

madpotter — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 10:36:59 -0000

I appreciate your brain and profession. Look forward to your thinking/collective thinking on this topic. Do have to say, followed your link from your Twitter stream, works for me, will play a role. :)

Re: The Language of our Medium (Social Media’s, like, totally passe)

madpotter — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 09:47:28 -0000

I think we are past the "medium is the message" era and it is time to begin
to figure how to be on the planet together, in a clean, efficient
environment that makes room for all reasonable ways of living. That is the
focus of future think/future speak. Techno geekiness has its place but won't
dominate the conversation just like engineers don't tend to dominate
conversations of broadly generalized topics. More will be revealed. Hard to
predict but fun to try! Especially of you are right!

Re: Terrible Experience With Bluehost

Doug Quance — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 15:46:12 -0000

I just hope that since they are related to HostMonster... that I won't endure the same treatment when a similar catastrophe occurs.

Re: Terrible Experience With Bluehost

Dan Patterson — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 00:01:54 -0000

You're right Doug - you get what you pay for. In this case, Bluehost is cheap.

I had little to no problems with them for quite a while, but then problems started popping up, weren't addressed, and they seemed to pass the buck. Even if it was 'only' a Wordpress exploit, I really want the company in charge of protecting my data to know what a script is, what it does, and not answer the phone with “Welcome to Boohost, can you tell me whatsit about?”

On the other hand, that one line will make me laugh for years!

Twitter people came out of the woodwork and were really great, though.

But, Andrlik is right: http://bit.ly/MU0w This isn't all about me or my problems. It's about a company that dropped the ball with respect and support, then dropped it again with a failure to respond (or even know about) the reaction on the web.

Re: Terrible Experience With Bluehost

Doug Quance — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 23:54:49 -0000

The sad reality is that the best values in hosting have a hidden downside. Maybe you'll discover it - maybe you won't.

In your case - you discovered it.

I use their sister company Hostmonster - and so far it's been good for the last two years. Tech support has been quick when it was needed in the early days... and since then - I haven't needed them.

I hope that I won't have your experience.

Re: Confirmed: Social Media ‘Experts’ Are Not.

Judy M — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 00:24:39 -0000

I'm not even going to pretend to know anything about social media works. I don't. What I do know is that a person doesn't gain a client, customer or friend by bombarding them with things they don't want or need, whether it be via social media or traditional media (remember that ex that kept calling for weeks after you broke up begging you to get back together and promising you how great it would be once you did?).

If the self-proclaimed marketing experts and gurus really were experts and gurus, they would realize that they need to stop using social media as an annoying one-way billboard with flashing lights and loud music and actually begin to use it as a two-way communication device. They need to stop blasting out links to websites and teleseminars; lay off the grades, awards and stats and starting talking to rather than at the people who are in their network.

Is that likely to happen? Somehow I doubt it. But that's the beauty of this whole thing - you and I don't have to listen to their endless drivel - we're free to un-follow or un-friend (and spend our time interacting with people who interact back with us). It will definitely be interesting to see how social media evolves over the next year.

Re: Confirmed: Social Media ‘Experts’ Are Not.

Brian Critchfield — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 18:06:14 -0000

The social media deafness is a good point. For example, how can anyone effectively follow 25,000 people on Twitter? What about 1,000? It reaches a point where it is just noise.

Social media is following a very similar trend to the Internet bubble of the late 90's. There is a lot of wasted time, money, and just plain stupidity out there when it comes to social media. I wrote a blog post at http://navelmarketing.com/2... that talks about the hilarity of the term "social media marketer". The true social media marketers are "marketers" first who use social media as tools.

Anyway, good stuff!

Re: Confirmed: Social Media ‘Experts’ Are Not.

Matt Herzberger — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 17:46:17 -0000

No I totally agree there are great people out there doing great things. It was a combo of your post and the zombie one that got me fired up :)

Re: Confirmed: Social Media ‘Experts’ Are Not.

Dan Patterson — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 16:01:50 -0000

I agree - the good people in 'social media' don't label themselves 'gurus' and really do try to help others.

This post, for the record, was not a personal attack. Many of the East Coast SM people are good friends. My snark is mostly reserved for the gross PR people and amateurs who try to sell themselves as experts..