Comments on: Punching at Your Own Weight in Social Media http://www.tacticalphilanthropy.com/2010/06/punching-at-your-own-weight-in-social-media Fri, 09 Dec 2011 20:42:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Daniel Ben-Horin http://www.tacticalphilanthropy.com/2010/06/punching-at-your-own-weight-in-social-media/comment-page-1#comment-9335 Daniel Ben-Horin Thu, 08 Jul 2010 16:04:45 +0000 http://www.tacticalphilanthropy.com/2010/06/punching-at-your-own-weight-in-social-media#comment-9335 Some funder friends have asked for pointers to further advice about slithering up the Twitter food chain at their own speed. I’d recommend, first, a wonderful post on Twitter Literacy from the sage social media guru, Howard Rheingold: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/rheingold/detail?blogid=108&entry_id=39948 And, second, the fabulous new book on this topic, with specific strategies galore, by Beth Kanter and Alison Fine, The Networked Nonprofit: Connecting with Social Media to Drive Change http://www.amazon.com/Networked-Nonprofit-Connecting-Social-Change/dp/0470547979 And while I’m writing, let me correct my title, under original post, from CEO of TechSoup Global to co-CEO of same. We have an interesting hydra here and I am very happy to share the office with the ineffable and inexorable Rebecca Masisak and Marnie Webb. p.s. to Alexandra -- Your points all well taken, esp. wrt email. Some funder friends have asked for pointers to further advice about slithering up the Twitter food chain at their own speed. I’d recommend, first, a wonderful post on Twitter Literacy from the sage social media guru, Howard Rheingold:

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/rheingold/detail?blogid=108&entry_id=39948

And, second, the fabulous new book on this topic, with specific strategies galore, by Beth Kanter and Alison Fine,

The Networked Nonprofit: Connecting with Social Media to Drive Change

http://www.amazon.com/Networked-Nonprofit-Connecting-Social-Change/dp/0470547979

And while I’m writing, let me correct my title, under original post, from CEO of TechSoup Global to co-CEO of same. We have an interesting hydra here and I am very happy to share the office with the ineffable and inexorable Rebecca Masisak and Marnie Webb.

p.s. to Alexandra — Your points all well taken, esp. wrt email.

]]> By: Alexandra Peters http://www.tacticalphilanthropy.com/2010/06/punching-at-your-own-weight-in-social-media/comment-page-1#comment-9179 Alexandra Peters Fri, 25 Jun 2010 15:03:44 +0000 http://www.tacticalphilanthropy.com/2010/06/punching-at-your-own-weight-in-social-media#comment-9179 Terrific post, and I love the "you can stumble if you're humble" idea. I'm just not so sure that email is over. I worry that those of us who love early adoption forget about that passive resistance that you mention earlier. And a lot of the time it isn't even passive, it's downright aggressive. For the moment, email is NOT passe for much of the world. The world is full of people - smart people - who are just learning to use it fully. There will always be, in any learning curve, people at one end or the other, and that curve is never still. It is always shifting. Email, newspapers, the phone, even letter writing aren't passe (hey, I love to get a letter in the mail!) They are just no longer the best way to "push out ideas in real time" as you say. But they ain't over! I think it's important to remember that as we rush out into these new waters. There's still a lot of people wading in behind us. Alexandra Terrific post, and I love the “you can stumble if you’re humble” idea. I’m just not so sure that email is over. I worry that those of us who love early adoption forget about that passive resistance that you mention earlier. And a lot of the time it isn’t even passive, it’s downright aggressive. For the moment, email is NOT passe for much of the world. The world is full of people – smart people – who are just learning to use it fully.

There will always be, in any learning curve, people at one end or the other, and that curve is never still. It is always shifting. Email, newspapers, the phone, even letter writing aren’t passe (hey, I love to get a letter in the mail!) They are just no longer the best way to “push out ideas in real time” as you say. But they ain’t over! I think it’s important to remember that as we rush out into these new waters. There’s still a lot of people wading in behind us.

Alexandra

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