Comments on: Social Media Top 5: Mmmm, Magpie….

By: Doug Haslam

Doug Haslam — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 21:06:05 +0000

Ari– I do think Obama will do something– I just think the emphasis will be on the people as a resource,while keeping the “command and control” nature of government in the end. I don;t think that’s a bad thing.

Geoff– it’s such a line to walk– and when people praise the “personal brands” they start to believe it. I am steeling myself for the day someone actually says something flattering about me…

Allan, I think personal branding often goes too far. I’m not sure what we can do about information overload, except to manage the information and each of saying, “do I really need to Tweet/blog/whatever that?” I do that every day, but not enough I’m sure. As for others, i have learned to tune out unless I want to tune back in. It’s the only way.

By: Allan

Allan — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 21:00:06 +0000

I think that the personal branding thing has definitely gone too far. You see it in self-important and self-appointed social media gurus who think they need to “manage” their brand by incessantly tweeting us and bombarding us with information overload.

By: Geoff Livingston

Geoff Livingston — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 22:28:29 +0000

Thanks, Doug. There’s a difference between infusing personality in your marketing and a shameless personal brand. Most folks aren’t able to delineate to subtleties, dirnk their own kool-aid, and thus engage in shameless self-promo. That’s the problem.

By: Ari Herzog

Ari Herzog — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 06:06:21 +0000

Here’s one, Doug:

Maybe whitehouse.gov or change.gov or some other dot gov site will be the new Fireside Chat.

Imagine hundreds of thousands of people – everyone who “friended” Obama on the collective social networks – coming to a dot-gov site to be engaged in real time by Obama and the senior cabinet. Talk about re-focusing the federal budget.