Comments on: 10 Social Media Steps

By: The Someday List: 1. Licensing at Helpful Technology

The Someday List: 1. Licensing at Helpful Technology — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 23:11:11 +0000

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By: Mission Creep | Neil Williams » Blog Archive » Dave’s top tens: social media tips for beginners

Sat, 04 Oct 2008 18:47:45 +0000

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By: MJ Ray

MJ Ray — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 13:42:38 +0000

OK, Facebook wasn’t the best example, but as far as I can tell Facebook sucks for government topics – I get far more feedback from local community forums than facebook. Facebook groups just aren’t sticky enough.

But more generally, is how you use twitter really so different from how you use identi.ca or other microblogging services? So when it doesn’t really matter, wouldn’t it be good to support the UK-developed or shareable ones?

By: Dave

Dave — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 14:16:03 +0000

Hi MJ

The trouble is, much of the reasons for giving advice on getting involved in this stuff, especially for government folk, etc, is that you can have a presence and be involved in the conversations where other people are – ie not forcing them to come to you but being active in the places they already hang out online.

If that means that Facebook is the place to go to, then I would have difficulty advising against it because it’s such a PITA and a walled garden. Even if it were a much better platform being offered as an alternative, if the mass of people aren’t there, then what’s the point?

By: MJ Ray

MJ Ray — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 10:37:23 +0000

How can I persuade you to lean towards free and open sites, instead of the Usual Suspects of Facebook, Google and so on?

By: Dave

Dave — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 09:57:32 +0000

Thanks for the suggestion, Kevin. I was planning to cover this in step 9!

By: Kevin Campbell-Wright

Kevin Campbell-Wright — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 09:44:33 +0000

Might be nice to have a step about collaborative documents on GoogleDocs/Zoho in there as well….recently i would have said this is only for people working professionally with social media, but I’m starting to find personal uses for these now as well as professional uses.

A good theoretical example is the Google Video on using Docs to plan a wedding at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zbLmDj-BLxE.