Tag Archives: conversation

The Conversation about the Conversation

January 18, 2010 – 5:29 am

by Geoff Livingston
Maybe it’s because I was gone for two months on a sabbatical, but returning to my reader has been a disappointment. Let me be more specific. In particular the social media, PR and marketing blog posts about PR, social media, marketing and, yes, the general “conversation,” read like a time warp back [...]

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Whatever Happened to Folk Media?

August 11, 2009 – 12:39 am

Folk–adjective (dictionary.com)
6. of or originating among the common people: folk beliefs; a folk hero.
7. having unknown origins and reflecting the traditional forms of a society: folk culture; folk art.

These days anything online can have the word social affixed to it. The marketing trend to dub everything “social” demeans the word, turning it [...]

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What Happened to the Collegial Marketing Blogosphere?

June 23, 2009 – 12:00 pm

What’s happened to the marketing blogosphere?  Our conversations in posts and on Twitter used to be so dynamic.   Our corner of the blogosphere used to be a nice place to be, a collegial debate on the future media and communications. When we had spats, we made up.
Now it’s just downright snitty. The confluence of many [...]

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Conversation Starters: A Modern View of Messaging

June 16, 2009 – 8:23 am

Corporate messaging has been under fire for a long time from many a PR 2.0/social media/web 2.0 pundit, including me. I’ve been a loud defender of the Cluetrain principle that there’s no market for messages. But while I still feel that one dimensional messaging from a traditional corporate communications standpoint fails utterly on [...]

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