{"id":575,"date":"2008-04-10T18:40:17","date_gmt":"2008-04-10T10:40:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.whoisandrewwee.com\/social-traffic\/social-media-getting-too-close-for-comfort\/"},"modified":"2008-04-10T18:40:17","modified_gmt":"2008-04-10T10:40:17","slug":"social-media-getting-too-close-for-comfort","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/whoisandrewwee.com\/social-traffic\/social-media-getting-too-close-for-comfort\/","title":{"rendered":"Social Media Getting Too Close For Comfort?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Note to self: Do not keep the bulk of tax filing till the last month before taxes are due.<\/p>\n

In the midst of shuffling paper around for hours and hours in my office (a real joy), I’ve been listening to episodes of Geekcast<\/a>.<\/p>\n

What I like about Geekcast’s easygoing, conversational banter between Shawn Collins, Lisa Picarille, Jim Kukral and Sam Harrelson is that it’s pretty stream-of-consciousness and more shoot-from-the-hip compared to a more produced program like Lisa and Shawn’s Affiliate Thing<\/a> or Linda Woods’ Affiliate Marketing Insider<\/a>.<\/p>\n

It’s like talk radio for the internet marketer, and goes beyond the affiliate marketing\/affiliate management\/blogging\/social media borders to cover all things “geeky”.<\/p>\n

In the latest episode Web 2.0 is the Devil<\/a>, (yes, it’s still a dirty word<\/a>) – it’s interesting to hear about the dirty word beyond it’s traffic and monetization implications to get into the guts of the zeitgeist<\/em> or spirit of social media.<\/p>\n

As Lisa mentions, how do you separate your twitter stream and create a divide between the public and personal messages – how do you create twits that your boss or employees or clients can’t access?<\/p>\n

It kinda reminds me of the early days of email, before email folders where everything sat in one massive “inbox”.<\/p>\n

Right now, social media is still at it’s rudimentary “1.0” stage, where everything is dumped into one huge social channel.<\/p>\n

You can follow Scott Jangro’s post and pull up extra commands to try to manage your twitter stream<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Or follow his advice to un-follow people and just follow the ones you like.<\/p>\n

On another note, Facebook has create a provision for “limited profiles” where you can selectively adjust your Facebook profile so your cell phone, email address, mailing address don’t show to people whom you’ve just met.<\/p>\n

But back to twitter…<\/p>\n

How do you filter your updates (AKA “content”).<\/p>\n

Do you create a “Fake Steve Jobs” or “Private Lisa” persona and have friends subscribe to that?<\/p>\n

But it would show up on their list of “Following” users – unless the people you are following could be set to “invisible” or “private” which kinda defeats the whole point of social marketing, isn’t it?<\/p>\n

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Some advocates talk about curating (AKA moderating or censoring) the web.<\/p>\n

But if you’re going to impose formal controls over the web, does that mean the “social web” becomes less “social” and more “formal”?<\/p>\n

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These discussions may not seem to have a direct impact on your internet marketing business at the moment, but the intangible mechanics are sure to have a very real impact on your bottomline in the longterm.<\/p>\n

Be sure to tune in to the Friday Podcast<\/a> tomorrow, when I nail Sam Harrelson down on concepts you need to incorporate in your social media efforts.\u00c2\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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