Comments on: Why Facebook/Twitter/IM/Blogging etc. Might Actually Be Significant for Relationship Building

By: The Waving Cat » Blog Archive » Newbies Guide to Twitter

The Waving Cat » Blog Archive » Newbies Guide to Twitter — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 14:06:19 +0000

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By: Holly Ross

Holly Ross — Thu, 16 Aug 2007 15:30:31 +0000

Hi Jon -
Thanks for the post. I agree – it also feels right to me. I just finished a personal project – using Twitter for 21 days. I thought I would come to the end despise it for being silly and wasteful. Turns out that I get a ton of great links, articles and resources from folks. Not only that, I know which links I want to follow based partly on the other kinds of things people are Tweeting. I know that certain people have certain viewpoints, and that colors what they will recommend, for example.

These tools provide a richer CONTEXT for information sharing that is simply fantastic. Oh, and forget about how awesome it is just to stumble around and find awesome people through your friends.

By: Michelle Murrain

Michelle Murrain — Wed, 15 Aug 2007 17:50:12 +0000

Jon,

Yeah, this does seem right on, although part of the equation for me is who is in these electronic networks. Right now, there isn't any relationship building going on between me and my clients in this way, because none of them are part of this (for the most part, every once in a while there is someone who uses IM.)

So I think this has been great for collegial relationships among nptechies, but not so much with clients or potential clients (at least, not mine.) And I wonder how useful it will be for my clients in terms of their constituencies.

By: Connie Bensen

Connie Bensen — Mon, 13 Aug 2007 13:15:57 +0000

This is so very true! I was linked over from Jeremiah Owyang’s post on Facebook and when I was commenting there I was thinking this exact same thing!
http://www.web-strategist.com/blog/2007/08/11/web-strategy-what-the-web-strategist-should-know-about-facebook/
Take for example Robert Scoble. On Facebook he provides updates & because of that, I know that they’re expecting a baby in Sept. Does this matter? No, but as a woman, I pay attention to those details. It makes people more ‘human’ and interesting. One morning I saw that a coworker had uploaded photos & after viewing them, we had a conversation where I learned a lot of his culture & traditions. Twitter is even more so in this respect. The brief glimpses add to the persona of who you’re following. I just added Chris Brogan after seeing some of his Twitters on Facebook (they’re amazingly humorous & insightful!). So there is value in that information. You can tune it out or absorb it.

By: The Waving Cat » Blog Archive » Inattentive Trust: How Facebook, Twitter change social relationships

Mon, 13 Aug 2007 09:49:53 +0000

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By: Patrick Shaw

Patrick Shaw — Sun, 12 Aug 2007 15:11:07 +0000

Jon,
I’m still feeling lukewarm about how some of these tools will impact the sector – partly because I have a fear (not based on anything in particular) that for many, social networking sites replace rather than augment – and because some of the glue that makes things work in our sector (perhaps any community) is also the things that we don’t know about our stakeholders – that they frequent a gun shop, that they vote Democrat, that they (add in whatever might upset your apple cart).
I’m keeping an open mind as best I can. Maybe it’s just because I joined Friendster the week before it turned into a dating site!