Understanding the difference between Forums, Blogs, and Social Networks

tags: blogs, forums, ncb, socialnetworks

• I’ve often used similar examples as Jeremiah when explaining the differences between various types of tools.  I’m still amazed at how many managers (especially at the CXO level) still don’t understand the difference.  I was recently listening to the results of a CIO study when it became apperant that neither the interviewees or the interviewer understood the differences.  I could tell by the responses that the CIO’s thought blogs were forums and when I pressed the researcher about it he obviously didn’t understand the difference either.
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Bloggers vs Journalists and Who Cares : [chrisbrogan.com]

tags: bloggers, journalism, journalists, ncb

• Many of my journalist friends give me a hard time about the hard time I tend to give journalism.  Chris has a great post about the difference between bloggers and journalist.  I think that this is especially important for PR folks to understand when engaging with bloggers.  They don’t understand or care what an embargo is and there is no ‘off the record’.  With bloggers you at least know where their biases are.  I think reporters try really hard to make people believe they are objective but usually aren’t.  I also think that bloggers could learn something from journalists and try a little harder to check for acuracy.
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Global Neighbourhoods: My Living Room Policy–or why I banned Bob

tags: blogging, comment, ncb, policy

• When trying to explain to a manager/CEO/owner what value a blog will have to their business the question about negative commenter’s always (and I do mean always) comes up.  Shel’s ‘Living Room’ rule is an easy to understand rule that makes sense and, for me at least, has always eased the manager/CEO/owner’s mind allowing us to move on to more important topics.
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