Comments on: Faking It on 54th

By: Christian

Christian — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 15:38:44 +0000

Jerry,

This is a terrific primer. Thanks so much for sharing it!

By: Steve Layton

Steve Layton — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 21:17:34 +0000

Kendra, if you’re on Windows you can download a powerpoint viewer:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=048dc840-14e1-467d-8dca-19d2a8fd7485&displaylang=en

By: Kendra Shank

Kendra Shank — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 21:07:05 +0000

Thanks, Jerry, for a very informative presentation. I would love to download the info from your slides, but don’t have Power Point. Is it available in any other format?

By: Jerry Bowles

Jerry Bowles — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 19:47:17 +0000

Hi, Walt. I think you represent the “purist” view of Twitter while being a marketer by trade (all you folks thought I was getting rich from Sequenza21, I bet) I’m more on the on the “mercenary’ side. I manage a dozen Twitter accounts for myself and others and I use it only to drive traffic to blogs. I’m not interested in building personal relationships and I’m still not convinced that anyone can really supply meaningful “content” in 140 characters. As an opt-in mailing list, Twitter is great but it is only useful for my purposes if people follow back. My experience is that if they don’t follow in a week they aren’t going to so I replace them with others who might follow rather than try to convince them that they’re missing something really cool. My cynical view is that there are two kinds of people on Twitter; those who want to sell you something now and those who are being nice to you so they can try to sell you something later.

By: Steve Layton

Steve Layton — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 17:05:03 +0000

Great content is… well, great! If all you post is boring it doesn’t matter how many people initially follow, because they’ll just end up eventually dropping you. But I think Jerry has a point. It can be as simple as that to build a base — follow someone and often their natural response is to follow you back. From there its up to you to keep giving them a reason to follow.

By: Walt Ribeiro

Walt Ribeiro — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 16:34:44 +0000

Good slide, but I totally disagree with the “Follow people on Twitter, so they follow you back. And if they don’t, then dump them, and follow other people.”

You don’t get followers by following other people, you get followers by creating good content that people are attracted to you for, and then build the authentic relationship form there.

Otherwise, great Powerpoint!

By: Elli Fordyce

Elli Fordyce — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 15:08:14 +0000

Hi Jerry:

Thanks for the opportunity to put a few more brain cells to work on social media stuff. Toying with it for a couple of years and most hay made from Twitter, which suits my short attention span and ol’ Word Processor mentality. Today I got this Google Alert which I immediately tweeted and is getting RTs: http://bit.ly/corWPj, and many of the items on this Posterious (learned about on Twitter) post came from folks met on Twitter (did I mention I like Twitter?): http://ellifordyce.posterous.com/compilation-of-ellis-2009-press

I’m at ellifordyce@msn.com, if I can be of help to anyone with Twitter and other things mentioned above.

Best,

Elli

By: Cynthia Hilts

Cynthia Hilts — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 03:59:48 +0000

We attendees didn’t even allow ourselves to be driven out by the disgruntled yet talkative dinosaurs in the room. Great talk, thanks!

By: Jerry Bowles

Jerry Bowles — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 02:50:04 +0000

Yes, thanks, Paul. It was a small room but it was filled and nobody left before the end which is always a good sign.

By: Paul H. Muller

Paul H. Muller — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 02:43:53 +0000

Your PowerPoint slides are a great intro to social media – thanks for posting. Good crowd?