Comments on: Blog Council Unveils Disclosure Toolkit

By: Neil Anuskiewicz

Neil Anuskiewicz — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 03:25:44 +0000

Yeah, I missed my flight waiting for your opinion on Wikinomics.
Now you owe me a night out on the town. What town you may ask? Modena, of course. We will sit in the Piazza and discuss Wikinomics while the sun goes down. I hope you read it so we will have something to talk about.
By the way, thanks for all the book recommendations. I look forward to reading them all.

By: Valeria Maltoni

Valeria Maltoni — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 15:13:25 +0000

I have not read Wikinomics, yet. I heard it is good. Hope you did not miss your flight. I saw your comment only now

By: Neil Anuskiewicz

Neil Anuskiewicz — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 17:54:14 +0000

btw, I am at the airport now and “Wikinomics” is in the book store here. Is that a good one? I could buy it in 5 minutes.

By: Neil Anuskiewicz

Neil Anuskiewicz — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 17:50:51 +0000

Grazie, Valeria

By: Valeria Maltoni

Valeria Maltoni — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 16:53:10 +0000

Well, here’s the thing – social media is about dynamics of people interacting with people. What has changed are the tools.
A must read is “Here Comes Everybody”. I have enjoyed Naked Conversations, Now is Gone, Groundswell, and would recommend Meatball Sundae and Wikinomics. Next on my list is Web Analytics: an Hour a Day by Avinash Kaushik. It’s actually not what it seems to be and was recommended to me.

By: Neil Anuskiewicz

Neil Anuskiewicz — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 02:49:57 +0000

Pardon me, I even phrased it wrong again, a book on “social media” is what I meant.

By: Neil Anuskiewicz

Neil Anuskiewicz — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 02:47:39 +0000

Valeria,
I am looking for a good book on social networking. Framing it as a “primer” probably confused the matter. A *good* book recommendation or two (or three) would have been a better way to frame the question.

By: Valeria Maltoni

Valeria Maltoni — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 01:39:36 +0000

I am late to my conversation!
@Ted – thank you again for sharing about a parallel and worthy initiative. I am thrilled to discover your efforts and glad to meet you.
@Paul Acosta – that sounds Italian. I cannot help it, people interest me. Technology comes and goes, people stay.
@Paul C – well, this may be a first time that I am in a cool organization *because* I work in corporate America – let me enjoy it Thank you for letting me know about the IBNMA.
@Michael – I know we had conversations about this before. Companies are just entities. Yous said it much better than I. I am proud of the group that helped take this step.
@Neil – are you thinking about a social media 100 or a 101?

By: Neil Anuskiewicz

Neil Anuskiewicz — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 16:21:30 +0000

Great post, Valeria!
By the way, can anyone recommend a book that is sort of a primer on social media?

By: Michael E. Rubin, Blog Council

Michael E. Rubin, Blog Council — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 13:46:53 +0000

Hi Valeria,
Thanks for the post. We definitely appreciate your support.
I agree completely and wholeheartedly with what Paul Acosta wrote. PEOPLE (not technology) is what this is all about. We tend to forget that corporations are not alive — it’s the people who work for them that matter.
We’re putting this out there to demonstrate that disclosure is the right thing to do. Disclosure seems difficult at first, but it is actually easy to do well.
Cheers,
Michael
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michael@blogcouncil.org
312-932-9000
I am a Blog Council employee and this is my personal opinion.

By: Paul Chaney

Paul Chaney — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 13:29:14 +0000

While I appreciate the Blog Council’s mandate, it is a select group not open to everyone.
We recently relaunched an organization that is a trade association, the International Blogging and New Media Association (which we fondly refer to as the IBNMA).
Our mandate is not dissimilar, in that we will be addressing and taking positions on certain issues of relevance to the blogosphere…and we welcome new members.
I wholeheartedly agree with the other Paul who posted a comment. Social media, the Web 2.0, the blogosphere – it’s not about technology so much as it is about sociology.

By: Paul Acosta

Paul Acosta — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 03:19:43 +0000

Thanks for the update Valeria. And I really liked the first sentence of the last paragraph… that’s what social media is all about! It’s not the technology, it’s not the platform, it’s not the source… it’s the PEOPLE, people! Thanks again.

By: Ted Murphy

Ted Murphy — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 21:54:34 +0000

I do congratulate the council on this move, though there is a bit of back story that should be shared. http://tedmurphy.org/post/43856657/damn-andy-wishes-he-thought-of-that

By: Valeria Maltoni

Valeria Maltoni — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 17:40:59 +0000

Thank you, Joyce and Gianandrea for reading. We put a lot of thought into sharing what we know and learned.

By: gianandrea facchini

gianandrea facchini — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 17:34:45 +0000

It works. I’m going through it right now. thanks for sharing, G.

By: Joyce Dierschke

Joyce Dierschke — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 16:00:53 +0000

Thanks Valeria. I can see how the Blog Council will be an invaluable resource – for companies as well as for people like me who service these enterprises.

By: Valeria Maltoni

Valeria Maltoni — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 14:48:43 +0000

it just went live. I think I might have overwhelmed the site earlier

By: gianandrea facchini

gianandrea facchini — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 14:37:15 +0000

Valeria, thanks for sharing but I can’t see the toolkit.