Comments on: Building Communities Within Your Community

By: Geoff

Geoff — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 12:07:34 +0000

This post almost speaks to a "microniche" sort of mindset. I agree about communities within communities being a very valid place to share and learn. If a company is looking to get into social media, and is actually dedicating budget to it, they are going to want some sort of measurable return data, most often.

When you jump in the conversation, you are certainly building reputation, but without some sort of focus on sales, where does one draw the line between using social media as a marketing tool or using it as entertainment?

For the record, I'd much rather being participating in the community in the community, I'm just curious as to the issue of balance.

By: Lisa Barone

Lisa Barone — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 16:14:44 +0000

The BlogHer thing is fascinating to me. I love the idea of a community developed specifically for female bloggers, but at the same time, I wonder how well I’d fit in over there. I tend not to play well with other girls and I’m not sure they’d accept me.
I think Facebook is worth of shot. The quality of the groups is really great (assuming you can wake people up to participate), all of your friends are already there and there’s even a newly formed cre8asiteforums group there waiting for you!
The downside is that conversations can be a little harder to start because people aren’t necessarily checking their group pages all the time. However, once they do pick up the level of knowledge is usually pretty high. It’s not perfect, but I think it’s better than a social media site with one never-ending front page.
Looking forward to seeing you at blogger central!

By: Kim Krause Berg (cre8pc)

Kim Krause Berg (cre8pc) — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 00:12:45 +0000

Thank you for continuing this discussion!

The motivation for last week’s tirade by me was that I WAS in a social site that pertained to my industry and expected to find topics related to that industry. However, I must’ve hit it just when some idiot posted several in a row of completely unrelated posts.

It added to the already long list of headlines. It showed how pathetically desperate they were to pull a stunt like that. It showed the failure of the site to yank the crap out.

Then, once I got past that mess, the experience continued with countless pieces for beginners, and more ego motivated posts or promotion or some with insane post titles that just made no sense, but were supposed to grab attention.

I reacted. It was fun. And nobody can say I’m not social. I founded Cre8asiteforums. Dead giveaway there. I just like other sources for intelligent conversation too.

So…you’re saying Facebook has promise, eh?

Btw, I may be impossible to please. I had decided to quit whining and join Blogher, just to try and get the whole social thing with people of my same gender. Figured it would be a nice start, in a reputable place.

There’s too many women there. I’m overwhelmed.

PS – Can’t wait to see you in San Jose, Lisa