Comments on: People who need people.

By: Web Success Diva

Web Success Diva — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 00:11:16 +0000

Colin, I agree the leap to full social media participation is not a given and that is a huge factor in the equation. Great post, as usual!

Maria Reyes-McDavis

By: Internet Marketing Links from Around the Net

Internet Marketing Links from Around the Net — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 21:24:29 +0000

[...] Walker covers People Who Need People, a great post about social media participation and what it really means. Great comments rolling in [...]

By: Stephanie

Stephanie — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 08:04:43 +0000

To your point about Twitter, I organized a bunch of folks to go to a NY Philhamonic concert in Central Park last night. In my Evite I said that I would Twitter folks that followed me to tell them where we had planted ourselves in the Park (rather than sending a mass email because I didn't have everyone's email address on my blackberry). This was a group of smart and dynamic people from 25-50 years of age from all walks of life – investment bankers to artists to Fortune 100 execs to non-profit folks. Not a single person knew about Twitter – they all asked “What is Twitter?” Was a good reality check that a lot of this stuff isn't permeating real life.

By: WinExtra » Can someone squeegee that bubble please

WinExtra » Can someone squeegee that bubble please — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 05:26:24 +0000

[...] had this line from a post Colin Walker wrote earlier today rolling around in my head all day. In his post where he was talking about social media he mentions [...]

By: /pd

/pd — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 19:51:00 +0000

http://friendfeed.com/e/3d46ef20-4371-4e6b-b2ab...

is the answer to your questin -

By: madpotter

madpotter — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 19:45:43 +0000

Glad to read you here, too. Thanks for the heads up on Sal. Type A mom, I love that. Who knows whether social media is this or that. Don't get me wrong, I love reading your ponderings, hence my comment. But, it draws me and yes it is personal and no maybe not rational but neither are free markets. Those don't seem to be working because, well, human beings run the world, at least the human world and here we are chatting it up and we have never met but if we do meet well, we'll feel like we HAD met. THAT is interesting….

By: robdiana

robdiana — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 19:39:05 +0000

Good to have you back! When the rest of the world “gets it” with sites like twitter and friendfeed, early adopters will be long gone. They will be on the next big thing, with only some presence remaining. What if the rest of the world does not “get it”? Well, some of the sites will disappear, others will continue to get good traffic, just not make me millions type of traffic. Such is the world of the web.