Christopher S. Penn's Awaken Your Superhero - Latest Comments in General

Re: SEO more important than ever with Google Chrome

Ankur — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 00:34:10 -0000

I do agree - it will drive traffic to the top results, because it gives the users less options. Lets see what the users decide on doing!

Re: Social media and new media are not the same

Arie — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 19:59:20 -0000

Chris - love the distinction between requiring interaction and those forms that can be (but don't have to be) passive. Really helps to think about how the different forms of new media would be useful in very different ways depending on the level of interactivity, too...

Re: Social media and new media are not the same

KeithChilds — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 19:38:30 -0000

I've tried various ways to map out new/social media and for me the key is the level of personal engagement- for example a company on Facebook is not really social as I define it- only individuals from the company can be social, with opinions and ideas. Throwing a video on to YouTube and seeing comments build up has a social element- but if the only thing you have done is to stimulate a conversation- and you ignore the comments then I think that's pseudo-social. If you have a blog with comments enabled, but nobody comments- maybe because you haven't said anything interesting- is it social?

Re: Social media and new media are not the same

netZoo — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 14:23:15 -0000

I think the social aspect of the box on the right is still morphing. All of these things can have various degrees of interaction depending on the user / audience. For example, YouTube can be quite social with the multimedia calls and responses and conversations, and Twitter, for some, is still a one-way street. Nice shout-out to the Wasilla Frontiersman, btw - I've gotta check out their web presence (btw, what was Cheney's hometown newspaper?)

Re: Social media and new media are not the same

billdeys — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 13:31:58 -0000

awesome stuff but I think Blogs, Podcasts and YouTube can very much be part of "social media" it all depends on how it is used and what the content calls for. When used by "us" it's social, by "old media" it's them using new media and not social.

Re: Social media and new media are not the same

cspenn — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 13:29:52 -0000

Bingo, Dan. That's exactly it - after a while, it will all be media, period.

Re: Social media and new media are not the same

Daniel Johnson, Jr. — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 13:28:34 -0000

Where would you put the newspaper site that is online and has comments enabled? I think that over time that line in the middle is going to go away, and eventually the "new media" will just be media.

Re: Social media and new media are not the same

Francis Wooby — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 13:01:17 -0000

I'm not sure I can think of any new media that works without a social component of some sort. Blogs are not blogs without comments. Video sharing includes comments and/or easy linking/embedding features. Podcasts that don't involve audience feedback are just broadcasts. Thus I think of "new media" and "social media" interchangeably. The fundamental element to this new way of communicating is the two-way conversation. As long as that's in place in some form, I don't know if it matters so much what we call the medium.

Re: Social media and new media are not the same

cspenn — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 12:50:16 -0000

@Susan: audio and video have that capacity to a degree, but enabled by other mechanisms, like comments. It gets grey and fuzzy to be sure!

Re: Social media and new media are not the same

robblatt — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 12:48:34 -0000

I don't think that you can classify a conference as social media. It's a conference. Everything that people do there fits into one of the three categories, so if you're really looking to include PodCamp for some reason, it would stretch across all three or at least straddle the line between new and social media. I would also list is as "PodCamp content" and not PodCamp.

Re: Social media and new media are not the same

Susan Murphy — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 12:47:00 -0000

I agree, Chris, but there is an important distinction to make, in my opinion.

I see "new media" as the whole, encompassing all forms of content delivery via the Web. I actually see social media as more a subset of new media, a form of content delivery not unlike audio or video. It's true that social media is inherently two-way, but then again video and audio have that capacity as well. So does that make video and audio social media, or new media (In the case of your blog, perhaps, yes, because I can leave a video comment!)?

In the end, it's a real grey area, I think. We are all in this space, inventing it as we go along. I guess it's up to us to some how define it too.

Posts like yours are great because they get people thinking. I'm going off to ponder now. Thanks!

Re: Social media and new media are not the same

cspenn — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 12:46:22 -0000

It's not, no more so than the postal service is a form of media. Direct mail is a form of communication, but not media to me - after all, whether postal or digital, there's an awful lot of mail I get that I do *not* want others reading!

Re: Social media and new media are not the same

AnnKingman — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 12:44:52 -0000

Like the breakdown. Where do you put email marketing in the mix? Or is that not "media" at all?

Re: Social media and new media are not the same

Jason Jarrett — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 12:42:24 -0000

Great article, going to digg it. I agree I don't think that social media and new media are the same thing and I think that articles like yours will help people navigate this new environment and make better informed choices about how to use it.

Re: Social media and new media are not the same

kosso — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 12:40:33 -0000

Good points.

But I call the whole box on the right 'Social Multimedia'

as seen at http://podcamp.phreadz.com ;)

Re: The blind leading the blind

Frank Spiele — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 08:21:58 -0000

hypocritical to say the least!! Good analogy!!

Re: Thoughts on politics

goldiekatsu — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 23:47:13 -0000

Of course a bird with no wings would be a kiwi...or a dodo. We need all 3 parts.

Re: Thoughts on politics

cspenn — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 22:16:35 -0000

That's actually the way it used to be done in the earliest elections. The president was whoever won, and the vice president was the runner up.

Compromise and cooperation were far more valued back then.

Re: Thoughts on politics

ariherzog — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 20:54:41 -0000

More food for thought: If the executive branch is the left and the legislative branch is the right, the judiciary remains in the middle.

Are you suggesting a presidential candidate should be paired with a vice presidential candidate of a different platform?

Re: Government real estate numbers are a load of crap

John Wall — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 11:56:37 -0000

Don't forget, many government figures get "adjustments" or "corrections" on a quarterly basis. This is great when, during a recession pols can say that the figures show there is not recession, and then a year later look at the corrected numbers and say "we did a good job making it through that recession...".

Re: Government real estate numbers are a load of crap

ariherzog — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 01:09:28 -0000

Interesting, Chris. Delving into Google, I see you only have half the story. Tenants also are computed.

Here's an extract from the <a href="http://nahbregistration.com/generic.aspx?sectionID=734&genericContentID=92268&channelID=311">National Association of Home Builders:

"Housing contributes to the nation’s and states’ output in two basic ways: through residential investment and household spending on housing services. Residential investment includes construction of new single family and multifamily structures (which encompasses the value of input materials), residential remodeling, and production of manufactured homes and brokers’ fees. Spending on housing services includes the amount of rent paid by tenants, the imputed value of housing services to home owners, and consumers’ spending on housing services provided by hotels."

Re: What Martial Arts Can Teach Us About Improving Presentations

Ken Okel — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 22:55:11 -0000

I highly encourage clients to have an audio or video record of their presentations. Often an ad-lib will contain a moment of brilliance and you want to make sure that you don't lose it.

I find a post it note or cocktail napkin is a good size for some key presentation points.

Some of the best talks I've ever heard have had a quality of freshness even though I know the presenter has give the same speech many times.

Re: FDIC Insurance Fund Falls Below Statutory Limit

Rob — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 04:26:04 -0000

Please hire me. Or I'll hire you. We'll make it through the storm bro. ;)

Re: The Mother of All Pingbacks

koby vyzel — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 17:42:35 -0000

very nice, wish i had commented earlier=)

Re: What is the future of podcasting?

George Motoc — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 13:02:06 -0000

I like your metaphor for the life-cycle of podcasting.
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Podcasting is the audio byproduct of technology evolution. I think it's obvious to anyone by now that audio on the web is here to stay. When, in 2001, I put my 5-minute radio show on the internet for anyone to listen to it at anytime, I didn't know it will be called podcasting. But I knew for sure this is the future.
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If podcasting would be radio, we're still in the AM years. Or around peck #5,000 -)