remarkable communication: The Ten Commandments of New Social Media
February 27, 2008 by Jonathan · Leave a Comment
remarkable communication: The Ten Commandments of New Social Media
I highly suggest you take a look at this recent post over at Remarkable Communication. He outlines ten very useful commandments for participating in social media.
His commandments:
- Participate in the coversation
- Do Not Lie
- Do Not Astroturf
- Talk like a human being
- Remember the community
- Don’t be a wimp
- Do not Snivel
- Write what is worth reading
- Don’t talk about what you don’t know
- Have a sense of humor
Wow, that’s quite a list and I tend to agree with each and every one of them. In fact, it reads almost like the text from Principals of American Journalism back in my early years at the Journalism School.
Those commandments of social media sound just like what it takes to be an honest, fair, and tought Journalist (just like in Jschool, that’s Journalist with a big J to support Big J journalism. Does that make sense to anyone who hasn’t gone to Journalism School?).
The only thing I might question would be astroturfing, not that I support it, it’s a ridiculous practice, but do people still participate a lot?
Astroturfing on the Dark Side of the Moon » The Buzz Bin
October 17, 2007 by Jonathan · Leave a Comment
Astroturfing on the Dark Side of the Moon » The Buzz Bin
Alright, so this blog post from the Buzz Bin is slightly less timely than the others I typically blog about, but I found it interesting none the less. Of course any chance you get to expand your net vernacular is a good thing right?
There certainly is a lot of astroturfing out there in the blogosphere and I see this trend expanding greatly in the short-term. All of the wonderful bloggers out there need to embrace ethical writing and promotional techniques. I think the name of the game is transparency here, if you’re not being transparent, then get out!
This holds true in so many aspects of online publishing and I’ll be the first one to admit that I occasionally use my blog to promote myself and my products, but I try to do so in such a way that it’s not deceitful or misleading.
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