Day: May 30, 2007

Already feeling tired and over worked? 

You’ll probably need some rest after reading Steve’s post.

Elsewhere I’ve you are in PR and you have an RSS Reader you’ve no doubt heard of, or read Guy Kawasaki’s post on the top ten reasons PR doesn’t work and the follow up post on doing your own PR.

There’s reams of commentary on these posts so I’ll skip the detailed analysis.  Couple of thoughts.  I think the posts oversimplify the problem and the solution, in fact the comments probably make for more interesting reading. One last thought: PR stands for PUBLIC Relations.

[Brian Solis has a written a detailed follow up on why PR mightn’t work and how to fix it]. 

Apologies for the radio blog silence.  Travel, work and parenting has been keeping me pre-occupied recently.

I think I am beginning to suffer from SONIDS, a very new condition I’ve just named.  I am wondering is it just me who has multiple orphaned social networking and application accounts?

At risk of ruining my already flagging web 2.0 credibility, I don’t visit most of these sites and I haven’t invested any time into building my “community”.

[There are exceptions such as my favourite PR social networking site which now has 47 members – ahem]

Some are better than others, I’ve quite a few links at LinkedIn, but at others like Facebook, MySpace etc. I am at the “socially inept/lack of personal hygiene” level of membership. This is fine I’m OK with it.  Until that is I get an e-mail telling me someone has connected with me.

That’s when SONIDS sets in.

Should I try and do a better job at Social Networking?

Should I be building a “community”?

Do I have to use a username or my e-mail?

What’s the password?

Eh… nope that’s not it.

nope…

Maybe the password is in the confirmation e-mail.

Hurrah!

Nope… I had to change it… damn.

 

The stress of it all…. no matter what they say everything carries a price 🙂