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Beth Harte

A little less conversation, a lot more discussion

by amy mengel on July 13, 2009

Is there any ideal more vaunted in the blogosphere than this notion of The Conversation? Creating one, participating in one, shaping one… Gah! Stop! My malarkey meter is buzzing. Is “conversation” even useful? Conversation is definitely happening on blogs. If I think about the many blogs I read regularly, most of them feature conversation, but [...]

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This post is not about Oprah. Well, mostly not.

by amy mengel on April 17, 2009

…Beacuse I don’t really care about Oprah. Or Ashton. Or CNN. Twitter is going mainstream. The cool kids who were on it first are bent out of shape now. It’s like any trend – a small group starts it out, enough people notice so that it gets picked up and becomes mainstream, then the original [...]

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Don’t let the “experts” intimidate you

by amy mengel on March 26, 2009

There’s been much discussion on blogs and Twitter recently about people proclaiming themselves social media experts or gurus or a host of other terms. Is there such a thing? Can anyone already claim to be an expert in such a nascent space? Will shoddy “experts” tarnish the reputations of those who really and truly are [...]

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