Comments on: A Twittervention! What If There Was No Twitter?

By: greg + jannelle

greg + jannelle — Sat, 14 Aug 2010 02:52:49 +0000

wow, this was ever encouraging. we just recently jumped on the twitter bandwagon and it seems so many organizations/people have been there for years and have built there whole existence from it. We were starting to feel a little overwhelmed with how behind we were. So it’s good to be reminded that twitter is not ‘the answer’ but a tool and to not just spend our time focusing on tweets. thank you!

By: Joel Brown

Joel Brown — Sat, 01 May 2010 05:46:09 +0000

Great Post, and some things that I do very much try and do myself.

At this point, I do operate a blog, It was long before I even heard of Twitter that i saw the value in controlling your main creative output. When you are limited to the length of a single creative expression at some point it will become to small. While in 140 characters you can gain a quick insight. In a decent blog post you can actually learn something of value.

I also think I approached Twitter/ Facebook a little differently, more as a means to direct people to my site/blog, rather then the other way round. It is kind of like when i had to make a hard point to a friend who was asking should the major partner logo go at the top with her logo, to get the benefit of the other companies previous exposure. In reality though who do you want to help build a reputation, your business/website/blog or that of a company who already is much better placed then you.

Really makes you think sometimes when you think about just how you are actually promoting somethings.

By: D. Lindsey

D. Lindsey — Sat, 03 Apr 2010 16:19:53 +0000

Great post, and the part that particularly struck a chord with me was the point you made when you said: “you need to ask yourself if you’re creating enough of “your” stuff on top of that”. I find it is very easy to get so busy with the different social mediums, that they become an excuse for my not getting any actual work done!

By: alina

alina — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 02:21:25 +0000

I personally don’t use twitter, I’m not a huge fan of it really, but I do use LiveJournal, and it’s really fun.
It helps me make lots of new friends and find out a lot of news info.
It may not be the most well known site around like twitter, myspace, facebook, etc. but it does the job, I guess you could say.
But even so I’ve got to agree with all you’ve said more or less.

By: Stu

Stu — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 17:21:02 +0000

Good lord!Not to toot your horn, but this post is fantastic.

@s2_brown

By: Andrew Anderson

Andrew Anderson — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 19:51:56 +0000

Lisa, do you realize you have neglected your own site so much that the link no longer works? :)

Mediums do come and go, and there is no substitute for the very uncommon, common sense marketing.

Cheers,
Andrew

By: Beth Cole

Beth Cole — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 00:29:50 +0000

Scott Stratten’s great post on Twitter power led me to yours, Lisa. What good thinking, I couldn’t agree more. Yours is one of my favorite voices in the small biz-o-sphere, and this post reminded me why. Thanks much!

By: DJ Waldow

DJ Waldow — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 16:18:23 +0000

Lisa –

Here’s a reason why I love this online stuff – Twitter, blogs, whatever. I went ice climbing yesterday for the first time ever. I was with a group of 11 dudes in Salt Lake City. As we were heading out to climb a wall of ice (wild, huh?), one of the guys says to me…is your blog called “Social Butterfly Guy” or something? Turns out, he is an avid fan of this blog (yours), read this post and was redirected back to mine. 3 hours later, I was belaying for him (his life, my hands).

Small world, right?

I’m not sure if this ties *entirely* to this post above, but I thought I’d share.

We need to meet!

DJ Waldow
@djwaldow

By: DJ Waldow

DJ Waldow — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 16:11:08 +0000

Richard

I really like your point about your voice being lost in the crowd or your comments not adding anything unique to the conversation. I feel that way (often) – this from a guy who comments quite a bit. So…at least you are not alone (ha ha).

Depending on who the author of the blog is or the readership – the comments are often read, digested, and sometimes commented back. Not everything is comment-back-worthy, right?

Happy to have you as a participant.

DJ Waldow
@djwaldow

By: Laura Kimball

Laura Kimball — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 02:13:11 +0000

Thank you for throwing this perspective out there. I’ve been thinking a lot about the role of Twitter, Facebook, etc., as I’ve been building the social media strategy for the Jolkona Foundation (http://www.jolkona.org). As Jay mentioned, Twitter is a tool that you can use to implement your plans and reach your goals–whether for personal or business.