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Re: Biggest Mistakes Made by Social Media Gurus

Jason — Mon, 04 May 2009 23:57:31 -0000

I was playing a silly game of trying to be "first" on a popular Facebook fan page. Since you have to post your comment as soon as the link appears on your home feed I didn't have time to read the story and ended up making light of a very tragic international news story. The next several posters after me started flaming me and I had to delete my comment and slink away sadly.

Lesson learned, playing "first" is risky; especially if you don't read the headline!

Re: Biggest Mistakes Made by Social Media Gurus

blogomomma — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 20:58:58 -0000

Great article, even for the un media.
As an outsider, I have no clue who Stewart Alsop is but is it VERY creepy to stalk anyone.
Sorry!

Re: Biggest Mistakes Made by Social Media Gurus

dougmcisaac — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 23:05:39 -0000

I enjoyed your list, my biggest mistake/issue is over editing, I struggle with it and while I develop online and social marketing strategies for clients every day, I struggle sharing my ideas online. I find that commenting and using Twitter is helping me get over it.

Doug

Re: Biggest Mistakes Made by Social Media Gurus

Blog Shot — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 06:55:49 -0000

The Facebook
stalking worked for
me too. I asked
attractive women who
shared a birthday
with me to be my
friend. The result
was a 95% acceptance
rate. Same, same
with people with the
same surname.

Re: Biggest Mistakes Made by Social Media Gurus

Elizabeth — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 20:14:21 -0000

Thank you so much for this post. New to social media this helps tremendously. I
especially like the point about not getting worked up over negative comments. You
can't please everyone at all times, trying to can take up all of your time.

Thanks again for sharing your knowledge!

~Elizabeth

Re: Biggest Mistakes Made by Social Media Gurus

trisha — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 19:43:49 -0000

I retweeted this! I think its a great article

trisha

Re: Biggest Mistakes Made by Social Media Gurus

Web Design Company — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 19:58:23 -0000

So many people create profile on leading social networking sites but a vast majority of them never bother to update it. There is nothing worse than a profile or blog that has not been updated for months. Whats the point?

Re: Biggest Mistakes Made by Social Media Gurus

Allah Akbar! — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 17:22:42 -0000

Stop trying to impose your Jew values on us, pig

Re: Biggest Mistakes Made by Social Media Gurus

FMC — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 08:23:11 -0000

So is it Ok to stalk men?

Re: Biggest Mistakes Made by Social Media Gurus

Fourclothed — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 16:02:55 -0000

I wonder how amused Stewart Alsop will be when he finds out one of the cute girls was an identity thief. That'll be good for next year's social media foobar blog post. :) Assuming "social media" will still be a topic of discussion then.

Re: Biggest Mistakes Made by Social Media Gurus

Michelle / chelpixie — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 16:12:35 -0000

I strongly consider everything I post anywhere before I hit the button to send or submit because those aren't words I can take back. They are forever in google. I got that down pretty well, very quickly.

The one thing I really dislike is being followed on any service where a man is begging women to follow them. This morning on Twitter someone specifically wanted me to follow them because I was "beautiful", this person is nothing but an icon to me. I've never interacted with him before.

That said, think about what you say to a perfect stranger before you say it and get to know people before making demands. Give before you ask.

Re: Biggest Mistakes Made by Social Media Gurus

ron o — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 13:54:07 -0000

Dont make bots that make some kind of "friendconnect" to every new user
'
Dont pretent to be a hot chick making friend connections with new users.

Why is this happen so often? Have they read it is an good strategy to keep new users? Give them impression that a hot chick want to be their friend or that a startup manager really is your "fan" five minutes after you have connected to their site the first time? My opinion follow O Reilly: Dont underrate your users. Dont assume they are super nerds without brains.

Re: Biggest Mistakes Made by Social Media Gurus

Danny Brown — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 13:20:51 -0000

Great list there.

Also, don't assume that you have less important knowledge to impart compared to the "rock stars" - sometimes the best comments and ideas/blog posts I've read have been written by everyday Joe's. We all start somewhere :)

Re: Biggest Mistakes Made by Social Media Gurus

Katie Van Domelen — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 12:46:52 -0000

I run the Twitter account for my agency (@SitewireAgency) so I thought to make things easy I'd set up my Twhirl to run both my personal account (@ktvan) as well as the corporate one. One day when I was leaving for lunch I decided to Twitter out a joke about where I was going - except I accidently did it on the company account. I quickly fixed it - but I think anyone who was following us with a desktop app like Twhirl probably saw it.

Re: Biggest Mistakes Made by Social Media Gurus

Borat — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 09:43:08 -0000

David Spark is very full of himself. Nevertheless, the fact that he's writing for Mashable with other kids shows that he's a complete sellout

Re: Biggest Mistakes Made by Social Media Gurus

Colin Robertson — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 09:35:59 -0000

I don't even know the guy and I'm embarressed for him! Being 50 is no excuse to be creepy.

Re: Biggest Mistakes Made by Social Media Gurus

georgia — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 07:36:35 -0000

I stumbled on this and gave it the thumbs up! Your article is well written and gave me food for thought. I particularly found this funny "Post a comment on your own Facebook profile wall" LOL.

I love stuff like this :) Excellent work.

Re: Biggest Mistakes Made by Social Media Gurus

toncmi — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 05:15:23 -0000

I like this post a lot too.

Re: Biggest Mistakes Made by Social Media Gurus

Laura — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 03:44:20 -0000

I like this post a lot. It goes to show that nobody is perfect - not even the experts. It's pretty funny too.

Re: Biggest Mistakes Made by Social Media Gurus

Eric Doyle — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 02:06:31 -0000

I saw a "tweet pitch" today for Mashable, a start-up nearly begging for coverage. it said, "...please don't ignore my email..." Couple mistakes here: 1) unnecessary plea -- just make your case for a story; it actually works AGAINST the start-up's chances of getting coverage on Mashable by sounding desperate and even annoying; 2) not a good way to build relationships; 3) no need to pitch in the public timeline. Send a direct message instead. Pitches need to be customized to individual people, not blasted to the world without real substance.

Re: Biggest Mistakes Made by Social Media Gurus

Kenny — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 01:19:18 -0000

The Facebook fallout is starting to happen. Happy times ahead for those of us not on Facebook, we can laugh at those who are.

Re: Biggest Mistakes Made by Social Media Gurus

Charles — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 19:32:24 -0000

I am a guy who met Alsop at an industry conference and spoke to him briefly about a business venture. I said I would followup after the conference. Afterwards I found him on Facebook and sent him a friend request with a message referring to the conversation. He sent a rude rejection.

Now after your reading your article I see what kind of business he tries to do on Facebook. If I were his kids I'd be embarrassed.

Re: Biggest Mistakes Made by Social Media Gurus

dcholloway — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 17:38:23 -0000

Exactly.

And to add to that, others are left out of the conversation. "Wall to Wall" is a public conversation (if people can see the other person's wall, as Kitsune pointed out), but only two people can engage in the conversation at a time. If someone has something to add to the conversation, they can only further fragment the dialogue by making a disconnected wall post that doesn't show up in the "Wall to Wall" conversation, and may leave observers to the conversation confused.

Re: Biggest Mistakes Made by Social Media Gurus

Bostonita — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 17:24:24 -0000

Couldn't agree more with Brogan's comment that, "wherever you go on the Web realize thereâ€™s been a history. Donâ€™t assume you know everything and discredit whatâ€™s been done before you arrived."

It's a mistake that's made over and over and over again. That's why you should always lean on social media specialists to clue you in to the existing culture.

Re: Biggest Mistakes Made by Social Media Gurus

Captain Obvious — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 17:13:43 -0000

The biggest mistake made by social media gurus is pretending that they are what they say they are.