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growyourwings

I must have answered some questions wrong..

Apr 19, 2008 08:20

I was reading a blog by Andrea Hill about social networking and identifying a person's Groundswell Social Technographic Profile (wow--big words--so early in the morning too!) Groundswell is a book by Forrester featuring "data-based strategies for companies that want to harness the power of social technologies like blogs, social networks, and ( Read more... )

yammering, blogging, convergence, social networking

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growyourwings April 19 2008, 16:46:36 UTC

I'm a techy geek from way back. Digg is a social-networking web site that started a few years ago and focused on technology only stories. A year or so ago (maybe more--I lose track of time) digg expanded to include all aspects of online activity. Folks post links to interesting news (or other) stories and anyone can "digg" it--aka "vote" or "endorse" it. The more diggs a story gets the higher up on the web site it gets and the more visibility it gets. Some folks spend all their time digging stories. These days you'll find more and more buttons posted on blogs and other online news sites saying "digg this ( ... )

creating - the "curse of knowledge" ext_96754 April 23 2008, 18:48:57 UTC

Hey there,
I think that the simple fact you're blogging makes you "a creator". It may not seem like it, but you are putting content into the web for others to read, learn from, and post about :) And really, blog posting is much more engaged than most of the people on the web, which puts you at that different level on the ladder. Once we start interacting on the web we "meet" lots of people at our same level, so we forget what it's like not to engage that way (the "Curse of knowledge").
The company I work for, Resource Interactive, has released their own book detailing the different levels of user engagement on the web (the Open Brand). They are related to an individual's motivations behind their actions online.

Disclaimer: the following is my own 2minute overview, and may not exactly co-incide with the intentions of the book authorsThe 4 key ideas are "I can", "I connect", "I matter" and "I am". A blogger could fall under "I connect" (community-focussed), "I matter" (starting to cultivate a identity online), or "I am" (strong ( ... )