Comments on: Cross-media conversations

By: Doug Haslam » Blog Archive » Social Media Top 5: Social Media ailments? Don’t hold your breath for a cure

Sat, 16 Feb 2008 22:28:15 +0000

[...] 4. Utterz confusion: conducting conversations across several different Internet-based platforms, and not being able to remember where the conversation started, or where the best nuggets and ideas reside. Symptons are disorientation, dizziness, and nausea. (not tied to Utterz, but heck the name is cool). I discussed a benign version of this ailment here. [...]

By: ThinkFree Blog » The Great Social Experiment - Question 1: How Much Time Should Be Devoted to the Care and Feeding of a Social Network?

Thu, 13 Dec 2007 00:18:36 +0000

[...] One thing that stood out in your methodology: your foresight to move messages and contacts across social networking platforms. The community is truly independent of the platform when it works well. Do you notice when you ask a question on Twitter and get an answer on Facebook? Perhaps (I barely notice, but that’s my peculiar problem), but do you care? Here is an example of a seamless cross-media conversation in one of my daily streams: http://gischeleman.com/2007/11/02/cross-media-conversations/. [...]

By: Doug Haslam

Doug Haslam — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 05:06:35 +0000

Beth, that’s really interesting. It sounds almost like a Quantum-leap type of super power

By: Beth Kanter

Beth Kanter — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 03:54:05 +0000

This is known as network weaving .. there is actually group of network weavers .. I’ll try to dig up the wiki – mostly community or social activist types.

By: Doug Haslam

Doug Haslam — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 19:58:06 +0000

But you can start a Flickr conversation in comments, connect via Yahoo! mail then cross over to GMail at a convenient point. Then, you can create a voice follow-up via Skype with a real-time chat back-channel, and file an Utterz post narrating a short video with SEO-friendly text as well, which simultaneously points to your blog, Twitter and Facebook. But wait, your blog feed already goes into Twitter, so scratch that part of it, you’re covered.

Meanwhile, the wife is on line 1 telling you what to bring home for dinner and the kid is texting your cell asking you if he can skip dinner to hang out with friends at BK.

While you were doing that, the boss scrawled an urgent message on your whiteboard and called your extension to back up the points, conferencing in your client to talk over details.

Oh, and that letter there is from the IRS.

By: glitchnyc

glitchnyc — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 19:38:49 +0000

I’m constantly jumping from twitter to gmail to take my conversations longform. I like to write a decently lengthy screed when I’m passionate about a topic, and direct messages just don’t let me do that.

I’m looking forward to the day when gmail just knows the email addresses of my flickr contacts so I don’t have to go look it up myself :)