Comments for Service Co-Creation

Comment on Top 9 Clues that you MAY have followed the wrong tweeter by gschirr

gschirr — Sun, 29 Apr 2012 22:24:00 +0000

Thanks Alice! I am glad you didn’t apply your rule to me…

Comment on Top 9 Clues that you MAY have followed the wrong tweeter by Alice Ackerman, MD, (@CloseToHomeMD)

Alice Ackerman, MD, (@CloseToHomeMD) — Sun, 29 Apr 2012 15:09:15 +0000

Thanks for this post. I have an acute allergic reaction to seeing that I have received a DM. Unless it is from someone I actually know, I unfollow that person as fast as possible.

Comment on Community-sourcing a new course! by gschirr

gschirr — Sat, 21 Apr 2012 20:12:52 +0000

Thanks!

I will be posting more about my course, especially at my social media blog, http://www.SMM4biz.com. The course also has a fan page at http://www.facebook.com/SMM4RU

- Gary

Comment on Community-sourcing a new course! by Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 26 Mar 2012 13:22:53 +0000

I like the term community-sourcing, as crowdsourcing is being assigned a too broad perspective lately! Just curious, where can I find more information on your course topic?

Comment on ROI – Misleading title, great read! by luke w

luke w — Tue, 06 Mar 2012 21:58:22 +0000

There’s always going to be multiple services which attempt to game social networks towards their own ends, but i too am getting a sense that klout is escalating the house of cards of follower numbers to levels which makes their own metrics no longer relevant. Thanks for sharing your review, hope to find time to get a copy of the book soon.

Comment on The Perfect Social Media Marketing Course! by gschirr

gschirr — Mon, 05 Mar 2012 14:25:20 +0000

Thanks Tom!

I agree with you: I rely heavily on posts and expert guest speakers. It is tough to do planning on a course that relies on current posts, though!

Thanks again!!

- Gary

Comment on The Perfect Social Media Marketing Course! by Tom Pick (@TomPick)

Tom Pick (@TomPick) — Mon, 05 Mar 2012 12:59:56 +0000

Looks like a fascinating course Gary! It’s tough to add much to the outstanding suggestions above, except to echo Patrick’s point: the “textbook” for social media marketing is still being written on a daily basis on expert blogs. Rather than assigning readings from an out-of-date textbook, a better approach may be to have the students read a set of “best of” fresh social media marketing posts each week.

Comment on Top threats to the Internet and SM! by gschirr

gschirr — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 04:29:35 +0000

Patricia:

Thanks for the feedback!

They seem to think they defeat gaming by making their scoring more transparent: which actually results in more gaming! Let’s all: tweet more often, choose trending topics, and unfollow followers with low Klout scores… will these rules make SM more social??

Thanks again!

- Gary

Comment on Top threats to the Internet and SM! by Patricia Wilson

Patricia Wilson — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 00:51:29 +0000

Good post Gary. Empire Avenue has the same issues as Klout. At the end of the day they are little more than social “games” and people figure out how to game the system and then adapt their social behaviors accordingly.

As a media planning and buying professional for 25 years, I only trust third party services to quantify true reach and measurements. if Klout were of value, they would go the way of Nielsen or comScore or ABC or other trusted sources.

As of now, Klout means very little.

Comment on Top threats to the Internet and SM! by gschirr

gschirr — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 21:45:43 +0000

Luke:

Thank you for commenting!

I agree that there will be peer pressure to remain authentic on FB and other SM platforms, hopefully — at least in part — countering the temptation to game Klout scores. But I do worry about SEO-type tricks gradually debasing social platforms.

- Gary