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Re: 5 People Who Broke the Rules of Social Media and Succeeded

AKA — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 15:53:08 -0000

Hi,

I didn't find anything extraordinary about theses 5 people because they just want make money online and they do the opposite of the regulars guys and they make $20,000 in sale.

So next time go to get the heavy guy who make tons millions dollars with twitter or youtube... and show us...

Re: 5 People Who Broke the Rules of Social Media and Succeeded

Swati S — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 06:03:53 -0000

The content is indeed informative and my team shall definitely look at the salient points to cross check our strategy and strength. We have just done a soft launch of our maiden social networking site seemybrands.com

Re: 5 People Who Broke the Rules of Social Media and Succeeded

Sari Grove — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 21:27:03 -0000

You need most of the people to follow the rules, so that you can get your message out by breaking the rules...If everyone breaks the rules it doesn't work...If everyone else is breaking the rules, the only way to get heard is by abiding by the rules...

Re: 5 People Who Broke the Rules of Social Media and Succeeded

Yura Filimonov — Sat, 09 May 2009 03:36:26 -0000

I think it is both, actually.

You need to do what you like and listen to the people: maybe they'll help you discover something that matters to both of you, too.

Re: 5 People Who Broke the Rules of Social Media and Succeeded

John King — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 20:57:05 -0000

Just want to say thanks from a guy who never knows how to do it right, rather, simply follows his intuition, and takes the make wrong hit if the action is somehow 'bad. Thanks for getting up under committed and creative human beings who are forever getting corrected because they are breaking some effing sacred rule or standardized protocol. Thanks.

Re: 5 People Who Broke the Rules of Social Media and Succeeded

Alice McKeon — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 02:14:19 -0000

Hello Susan! I remember when you published your book, How to Work a Room. Thanks for the post. David Spark wrote a fascinating article and I watched his video about it as well. You are witty as always. And you are right; authenticity and genuineness are appreciated.

Re: 5 People Who Broke the Rules of Social Media and Succeeded

@mycarlady — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 23:37:04 -0000

NIce job. Spoken from the heart, with heart. As a social media green pea, i cant possibly read everything, but this pc. summed it up 4 me. THX @mycarlady

Re: 5 People Who Broke the Rules of Social Media and Succeeded

Rebecca Geiger — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 23:33:34 -0000

Even though the most sincere appreciation is to be "copied".. I think in the world of copy cats it is nice to find someone you follow who is unique enough that you would want to copy one thing.. Courage.

Re: 5 People Who Broke the Rules of Social Media and Succeeded

Katya — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 17:32:28 -0000

Thanks for making this about the homeless and doing so much to make the invisible visible, Mark. You are an inspiration.

Re: 5 People Who Broke the Rules of Social Media and Succeeded

Zohaib Usman — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 06:32:30 -0000

ahannnn. so yo want to break the rule of text comments and start video comments on mashable :)
Yes you have a reason to break the rule. but u have to succeed.
so u defined the rule no 6 to break. Bravo. cool

Re: 5 People Who Broke the Rules of Social Media and Succeeded

EmailBusiness — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 04:52:12 -0000

Zohaibusman, how about Rule 6: Any ideas? I'm thinking along the lines of The average person, or marketers on social media or ???

Any feedback. One idea I had since no one really uses video commenting to much on mashable is to start a very long comment thread using video: comment on a popular topic, then get carried away with it to the point where the comments on mashable become the topic.

Eventually gathering a following, and turning the comments into their own show.

Or???

Re: 5 People Who Broke the Rules of Social Media and Succeeded

Zohaib Usman — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 06:17:13 -0000

there must be lots of examples i am sure far better than the above ones
ok so lets define the 6th rule and then break it :)

Re: 5 People Who Broke the Rules of Social Media and Succeeded

EmailBusiness — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 21:00:29 -0000

Zohaibusman, I couldn't agree more!
But does someone else have some better examples?

There has got to be more than 5.

Re: 5 People Who Broke the Rules of Social Media and Succeeded

Rafer — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 02:19:03 -0000

What utter tripe

"Seth Godin gave her props on his blog"
The number of 30+ year olds who still try to talk like children saddens me.

Re: 5 People Who Broke the Rules of Social Media and Succeeded

John — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 00:19:52 -0000

I had a conversation about "rules" today with someone. I have worked with people in the past that don't care about the rules because they let the numbers work for them. While on the surface you would think they would flame out, they still get more done because they are in front of more people. There's a lesson in that too. All depends on how much you want to work.

Re: 5 People Who Broke the Rules of Social Media and Succeeded

QuestingElf — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 18:46:31 -0000

Anne Rhoades who used to work at Southwest Airlines in HR has a favorite question to ask job applicants, namely, "Tell me about a time you broke the rules."

Good material here!

Re: 5 People Who Broke the Rules of Social Media and Succeeded

Rizzo Tees — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 07:25:32 -0000

"Don't always follow Seth Godin's advice." NOT A PROBLEM!

Re: 5 People Who Broke the Rules of Social Media and Succeeded

Karyn Cooks — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 19:58:45 -0000

Thanks David. Many years ago I stood up in a meeting and spoke my mind to a group of people who were very concerned that I was breaking the rules they had so carefully cultivated. Let's just say my p.o.v. got people talking for the next two hours. Worst of all I was afraid I may have offended my very play-by-the-rules parents who were members of that organization. Imagine my surprise when my dad said, "God gave you a mouth. You're supposed to use it." Isn't that what social media and being a conversation agent is all about?

Re: 5 People Who Broke the Rules of Social Media and Succeeded

James — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 11:01:06 -0000

Awesome!

Re: 5 People Who Broke the Rules of Social Media and Succeeded

Kathleen Smith — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 11:39:43 -0000

Awesome! staying true to yourself and breaking the rules allows for creatvity and individuality.

Re: 5 People Who Broke the Rules of Social Media and Succeeded

Tristan Grace — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 10:01:58 -0000

Interesting Article

Re: 5 People Who Broke the Rules of Social Media and Succeeded

tomddevisscher — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 22:29:29 -0000

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Re: 5 People Who Broke the Rules of Social Media and Succeeded

Ardi — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 20:55:40 -0000

This is a fantastic article! I am fairly new to this new media thing and am beginning to open my mind up to new things. A great read! Thanks.

Re: 5 People Who Broke the Rules of Social Media and Succeeded

Chuck Duncan — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 19:36:46 -0000

Seth has many more gems. But I've actually found that the blogger/writer/person/personality has to find their voice in this media. A social media prerequisite is that you have soemthing to say that strikes true, not interesting, with others. We used to it resonance.

Cheers.

Re: 5 People Who Broke the Rules of Social Media and Succeeded

David Spark — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 19:26:52 -0000

Hello everyone. David Spark here. Author of this article/blog post. Thanks so much for your kind words and great insight. I've actually got a follow up video response to all your comments on my blog, plus some other follow up links for you.

http://www.sparkminute.com/...

BTW, I tried four times to record a Seesmic video response so it would appear here in the comments, but it just kept crapping out on me. So that's why the response is on my blog.