Last week I was working, late at night, plugging street addresses into encartus, in preparation for building a bunch of new engenu pages for a new web site we’re building, an exposition of truly-distinguished homes in Paradise Valley, Arizona. While I was working, I got pinged by an incoming email, a moderated comment to Brian Brady’s first post on the idea of disclosing all real estate purchase offers.
While I was reading all the other great comments to that post, I got pinged again, this time a private email asking me what I thought about the nominees for Inman’s most-innovative blog award.
To misquote a line many Bloodhounds love: I don’t think about them. I will stop in at The Phoenix Real Estate Guy once or twice a month, and I know I’ve been to MyTechOpinon and the Clean Slate Blog. But I don’t associate any of those sites with innovation. They’re just weblogs, that’s all.
This is not sour grapes. I don’t give a rat’s ass about beauty contests, and I’ve deliberately painted Inman “News” into a corner: By consistently ignoring what is obviously the most innovative weblog in the RE.net, they come off looking like petulant crybabies even as they despoil their reputation as a “news” source. And does this malign neglect hurt us? Uniquely among RE.net weblogs, we’re a PR6, as is the Inman “News” web site. With no capital investment and nothing but part-time, amateur writers, we’ve pulled even with the life’s work of a big-baby billionaire. One would think the idea of gamesmanship was invented yesterday.
And please don’t post treacly little comments about how you get good ideas everywhere. I have no objection whatever to the Special Olympics, so long as you don’t insist on calling the contestants Olympians. The three innovations cited in the first paragraph of this post, three among hundreds, are more than enough to split BloodhoundBlog away from the herd.
But that’s the point. BloodhoundBlog is ten days away from being three years old. In those three years, we’ve pioneered a vast host of jaw-dropping ideas. If we stopped writing on June 29th, our anniversary, we would still be the most innovative real estate weblog in history, forever.
Why? Because the ideas that drive BloodhoundBlog are the ideas that will drive the real estate industry in the twenty-first century. The dinosaurs who insist that we can’t supplant the NAR are twice absurd: In every way that matters, we already have. Like Inman and all the wannabe social media gurus, the grand poohbahs of the NAR come to us, lurking in cowardice. We don’t go to them. We drive the debate, not them. We’re the big dog, and we have been for a long time. They’re just fleas — temporary hitchhikers.
But, all that notwithstanding, I thought we might have a little contest of our own: Most Innovative BloodhoundBlog Post. Anyone can nominate a post (or more than one, if you like), and there are a lot to choose from. In the days before our anniversary, I’ll post a voting tool, and we’ll let the audience pick a winner. But it is probably obvious that I am no fan of raw democracy, so if individual contributors want to write posts about the BHB entry (or entries) they see as being most innovative, I think that’s a fine idea.
Nominate posts in the comments or by email. Let’s see what we think about what we have thought about over the past three years.
Don Reedy says:
This video embraces the best of Bloodhound, and in a manner keeping with two of its foremost philosophical contributors, the esteemed G. Petro and G. Swann.
There is real estate here for sure, but real estate and other insights that edify with humor, thoughts on a grand scale, and a complete nakedness that flaunts itself almost on a daily basis in the work here.
I want to wish you a Happy Birthday by asking any reader to read the sidebar first:
Welcome to BloodhoundBlog, the national real estate industry marketing and technology weblog written by, for and about real estate professionals. Better yet, welcome to the wired world of real estate. We are busily inventing Real Estate 2.0 — technology, marketing, service and salesmanship. Like all Bloodhounds, we are smart, frisky and fiercely independent. We’ve built a spot on the earth — beloved over all — where each one of us can be who we are, no matter who that might be. We are committed to an idea of excellence that will flush the bums, the con-men and the crybabies out of the real estate industry. If you yearn to have your failures excused, your moral lapses absolved or your boo-boos kissed, seek elsewhere. But if you are sick to death of mediocrity — welcome home. Read all about us, subscribe to our feed and steel yourself for the hunt. We work hard, we play hard, we learn everything we can — and we bow to no one.
Now, go read any post. I, you see, cannot nominate just one post when what has been loosed here is a Scenius of ideas, characters, contributors, doers and their passions.
I am, however, going to keep coming back for more cake.
June 20, 2009 — 7:54 pm
Jay Thompson says:
Congrats on the upcoming blogiversary. Lasting that long in this space is commendable.
To be honest, I have no idea why I was nominated by Inman. I have my suspicions that a reader or two may have been involved. And while I think that I’ve written about some innovative things in the past, that’s not the primary purpose of Phoenix Real Estate Guy. It’s primary purpose is to generate business for me and my agents, and it does that pretty well. I can see TPREG being labeled “influential”, but not-so-much “innovative” — unless one counts a blog built and written (for the most part) to generate business as “innovative”. Some might, others might not.
I certainly can’t argue that there isn’t innovative and thought provoking stuff here, of course there is. It’s chocked full of it. I don’t know (nor really care) how Inman chooses their nominees nor the ultimate “winner”.
As a point of fact only, stating “Uniquely among RE.net weblogs, we’re a PR6…” isn’t true, unless you don’t consider Jonathan Miller’s Matrix or the HomeGain blog as “among the RE.net”. They are also PR6 blogs. Personally, I don’t see PR as much of a measure. It’s certainly commendable to reach a PR of 6, but it’s the content that makes BHB what it is, not a number on a toolbar. Metrics like PR, Technorati authority, and even traffic are nice and possibly somewhat an indicator of “success”, but they are fraught with problems as well.
June 22, 2009 — 9:12 am
Todd Carpenter says:
Innovation is the act of introducing something new. That only really matters to me if that “something new” leads to something fruitful. I think more people will pay attention to all the innovation happening here, and throughout the RE.net when the RE.net can more consistently pair these ideas to documentable results.
June 22, 2009 — 12:27 pm
Greg Swann says:
> I think more people will pay attention to all the innovation happening here, and throughout the RE.net when the RE.net can more consistently pair these ideas to documentable results.
And we will be delighted to list and sell houses for them, since they won’t be in the real estate business any longer.
Nice dinosaur speech, though. The NAR types will love that kind of logic. It’s just what they want to hear.
June 22, 2009 — 1:55 pm
Todd Carpenter says:
I think anyone who’s interested in paying the rent will love my kind of logic, not just us dinosaur NAR types. What’s so outdated with the idea of backing up a marketing idea with results proving it worked?
Here’s an innovative idea posted on BHB. How did that one work out?
It’s not the norm. Lot’s of great ideas that work have come out of this blog, but there’s a difference between being innovative and being successful. I think the focus should be on success.
June 22, 2009 — 2:10 pm
Greg Swann says:
> I think the focus should be on success.
And the people who actually act on that premise will never catch up to what we know. Barry Cunningham is right to equate the shift going on now with the dinosaur-killer meteor strike. The Greeks knew that a thoughtful man could turn his hand to anything, and the Greeks are inheriting the Earth.
June 22, 2009 — 2:45 pm
Don Reedy says:
Hi Todd,
One of the important ideas to come out of the whole 2.0 thing is getting a glimpse of ideas, and sometimes people, who wander in and out of blog conversations.
I’ve only heard about what a “great guy” you are in most of the stuff I’m reading, so when I read your comments above I was a little perplexed. Being a sailor myself, I left port and headed to your web site, where I found the following:
“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”
That’s a quote you left for all of us to ponder from Mark Twain.
You also wanted us to know about you, and so you left the following message in a bottle:
I wear size 12 shoes, have green eyes and blond hair, wear my emotions on my sleeve, like small cars and high design, have been dieting for over a year and have lost nearly 50 pounds, worship the sun, can’t spell, live and let live, am an excellent cook, have a girl for a best friend, wear black socks with Teva sandals, drink too much Diet Pepsi, am a mac, love to sail, hike, meet people, teach people about social media, am determined to make the second half of my life better than the first, and, and… have a tendency to write run-on sentences.
Are these thoughts consistent with requiring “documentable results?” I don’t think so.
It looks to me like you’re a smart guy who “wears emotions”, “diets”, “can’t spell”(but loves to write),”sails” (not a power boater), “teaches” and has “tendencies.” I think these are probably much more important to you than any “success” you directly have tied into.
Well, I’ll close by saying that innovation is the act of exploring, dreaming and discovering. The ideas, i.e. the innovations, here at Bloodhound, need never play second fiddle to those who would measure these innovations and ideas. Go sail fast right now, Todd. You don’t have to wait for the horn to blow to appreciate every leg of the race.
June 22, 2009 — 3:30 pm
Todd Carpenter says:
Don, I’m not afraid of adventure. I love it. I entered the real estate corner of the blogosphere four and a half years ago. You won’t meet many who are earlier adoptors than I am.
But while I recognize the early bird gets the worm, the second mouse gets the cheese. Innovation is cool, but critical mass and widespread adoption don’t happen until these innovative ideas can be proven to pay off.
I don’t buy the idea that the second responders must die a dinosaur’s death. The second responders are often the most successful at long term success in any industry.
Want to convince the world these ideas are important? Show the world they work.
June 22, 2009 — 3:58 pm
Greg Swann says:
> but critical mass and widespread adoption don’t happen until these innovative ideas can be proven to pay off.
Oh, wow. This is so dumb. First, “critical mass and widespread adoption” are old news — to our clients. Second, as Brad Inman demonstrates with every idiotic lurch he makes, you either understand what we’re doing or you don’t. The people who aren’t learning now won’t learn later, either. This is not an incremental change.
But don’t let that stop you from spreading these memes to the dinosaurs in the NAR. I’m sure they love hearing it, and there’s no hope for most of them, anyway.
June 22, 2009 — 10:32 pm
Todd Carpenter says:
“First, “critical mass and widespread adoption” are old news — to our clients.”
I’m sure your clients could care less if the techniques you use to sell houses or innovative or Jurassic. They only care if they work.
Do they?
Are you the top producer in your market, or is it one of those dinosaurs?
June 22, 2009 — 11:12 pm
Greg Swann says:
> Do they?
You haven’t been paying attention. Neither have the dinosaurs.
> I’m sure your clients could care less if the techniques you use to sell houses or innovative or Jurassic.
This again is really dumb, I’m afraid. Our clients are here. All the old “tricks” of the antiques in the NAR are failing because our clients are ahead of us, in general, on the learning curve. Moreover, you had better believe our clients care whether or not we can sell into the Web 2.0 world. Just as one example, the fact the we have dozens of larger and smaller buckets of Page Rank to paint with matters more and more every day.
> Are you the top producer in your market, or is it one of those dinosaurs?
Just keep preaching that sermon, Todd. I am by now completely convinced that you are exactly the right man in exactly the right job.
June 23, 2009 — 6:45 am
Don Reedy says:
Todd,
It’s ironic, isn’t it, that in a post about innovation, creativity and “great ideas that work”, that you have succumbed to the lowest denominator.
I suppose that in your position you think that innovation, creativity and “great ideas that work” only come from “top producers?” Wow! In the position you hold, and in the organization to which I belong, I am downright P.O’d to see you disparaging rather than building, no matter what your particular beef with any of the ideas here.
To use a sailor’s term that I am sure you’ll understand, you have sailed WAY OFF the fall line, and as the internet navigator on your vessel, I think you need to pay more attention to where you’re heading.
June 23, 2009 — 7:03 am
Todd Carpenter says:
>>”It’s ironic, isn’t it, that in a post about innovation, creativity and “great ideas that work”, that you have succumbed to the lowest denominator.”
I have? All I have asked is to see some proof that all these innovative ideas work. What is so disparaging about that? Here’s what Greg said in the post.
>>”BloodhoundBlog is ten days away from being three years old. In those three years, we’ve pioneered a vast host of jaw-dropping ideas. If we stopped writing on June 29th, our anniversary, we would still be the most innovative real estate weblog in history, forever.”
So I’ll ask again if you all would care to back this up. Who among the Bloodhound pack has taken these ideas and turned them into an actual paycheck? I’m not doubting it’s happened, but let’s see some results. Writing the “we get no respect” post will be more effective when it ‘s proven that some of these jaw dropping ideas actually pay the rent.
>>”In the position you hold, and in the organization to which I belong, I am downright P.O’d to see you disparaging rather than building,”
Then I apologize to you Don. I’m commenting on my own accord here. Not speaking for NAR. However, as Greg has seen fit to use this blog as a tool for my personal ridicule, I see no reason why I should be using kid gloves here. I know Greg can take it.
June 23, 2009 — 7:31 am
Bunny Carringham says:
Well I for one think Tod Carpenter is right on the money. There isn’t one of these new internet notions that tops a good old fashiond recipe card or a Halloween pumpkin.
But at the same time I agree with Gregg Swan: Tod is the best thing to happen to the NAR since Realtor.com!
The National Association of Realtors was built on secrets, gimmicks and lies, darlings. How could that ever change?
Just remember: Keep it cheap. Keep it chintzy. And, above all, keep it cheesy!
Love and kisses,
Bunny
June 23, 2009 — 8:58 am
Todd Carpenter says:
Looking more at that Inman list, I hope @properties wins. That’s a company using a mix of old an new school techniques to succeed and prosper.
Barry, it’s “Todd”, not “Tod”. But you knew that. Great to see how this comment stream is evolving.
Here’s a nomination for an insanely great marketing idea. One that Barry pretty much trashed.
June 23, 2009 — 9:36 am
Greg Swann says:
> Here’s a nomination for an insanely great marketing idea.
Invented here, of course. We had known we wanted custom yard signs long before we could get them done. Other firsts: Custom directionals and custom signs in English and Spanish.
Do they work? They kill. I know of maybe half-a-dozen Realtors using them and they all report great success, both at selling the house and at selling the Realtor to other sellers. Why don’t other agents uses them? Because they’re dinosaurs in the Age of the Bloodhound.
Our name for marketing innovations that don’t move the product: Discarded. The fact that other agents don’t adopt our ideas has nothing to with how our ideas work, but, rather, with the low standard of accountability sellers have for their listing agents. My long term marketing job is to train consumers to demand better. When I succeed, as Teri notes in her comment above, the NAR will be dead, dead, dead.
June 23, 2009 — 6:37 pm
Teri Lussier says:
I’ve pondered this for awhile. Not sure I can get to a post, but I can say that for me, the post that dropped my jaw, woke me up, made me realize I was truly in the right place, among friends, among soul siblings, and that no other RE.net blog would ever be home for me.
It’s not my favorite post. Almost anything Geno tosses out is more engaging to read. It’s not the most useful post, in terms of getting paid. It’s not the one I find the most interesting, or the most moving, or the best marketing, salesmanship, etc., but it’s the one post that made me happiest to read and to this day I remember the feeling of joy when I read it.
This, https://www.bloodhoundrealty.com/BloodhoundBlog/?p=1869 is the most innovative real estate blog post I’ve ever read. Thanks for writing that, Greg.
June 23, 2009 — 3:07 pm
Louis Cammarosano says:
Greg
Congrats on three years of cutting edge writing and aggregation of content.
I wouldn’t pay much attention, however, to page rank-its not a reflection on the site’s quality.
I have bloodhound on my browser as a page rank 5 , not 6.
Perhaps there was an update recently
June 29, 2009 — 2:29 am
Greg Swann says:
> Perhaps there was an update recently
There was. I saw the changes yesterday.
June 29, 2009 — 6:07 am
Brian Brady says:
“Are you the top producer in your market, or is it one of those dinosaurs?”
They finally got you to wear the tie, Todd.
“So I’ll ask again if you all would care to back this up.”
FWIW, I thought Lenderama was genius, regardless of the fact that you hadn’t closed a loan in the latter part of this decade. I learned a bunch from you that resulted in this:
http://lifethatpops.com/2008/11/19/social-media-marketing-and-real-estate/
That process brought YTD production that exceeded all of 2008. You see, social media really is a process, Todd. It just doesn’t happen overnight.
Enough of the phallus size contests, Todd; it’s beneath you.
June 29, 2009 — 3:46 am
Brian Brady says:
“Here’s an innovative idea posted on BHB. How did that one work out? ”
Not well and it was recognized within three months. Facebook took the wind out of Twitter’s sails. Of course, I reported that immediately to the BHB community. Innovation is admitting what DOESN’T work, after you try it.
As you found out, Twitter works well when you want to sell conference tickets but it doesn’t sell loans or houses.
June 29, 2009 — 3:58 am
Louis cammarosano says:
Brian nailed it
Social media is great for selling social media
Social media can not claim among it’s users
Real estate agents that are “facebooking” and twittering are not making the type of money
Homegain users are making
Agents are having a hard time owning up to the fact –
When you are on facebook or twitter for hours
You are not “working” you are playing or worse
Wasting time
The social media successes are still
Conference organiZers
“coaches”
Consultants
Or people like rudy or Todd who used their social media
Prowess to get “real” jobs
June 29, 2009 — 4:08 am
Jay Thompson says:
BB: “Twitter works well when you want to sell conference tickets but it doesn’t sell loans or houses”
Sorry for the off-topic intrusion, but that’s a highly debatable statement. Maybe it doesn’t work for loans, I don’t know as I don’t sell loans. But you can’t tell me it doesn’t sell houses. I currently have one listing and three active buyer clients secured solely via initial contact through Twitter. Just because it may not be “innovative”, doesn’t work for everyone and just because some think it’s stupid doesn’t mean it’s not a viable tool.
One of the buyer clients went under contract yesterday, another is in negotiations and the third just looked at homes for the first time on Friday.
Twitter can sell homes.
Is its ROI “good”? I don’t know, it’s difficult to measure. I’m not on Twitter “for hours” to use Louis’ phrase. A Twitter client stays on one monitor when I’m at a PC (which is often). It doesn’t take long to type a 140 character response. I can do it while WP is deleting the 150 spam comments that came in overnight.
It’s called multi-tasking. Again not exactly an innovative practice, but it’s pretty damn effective.
It took less than 10 seconds to respond to this Tweet:
It took a couple minutes more to follow this never interacted with before complete stranger, get an email address and begin an engagement that led to showing homes all day Friday.
Was it a waste of time to respond to this person on Twitter? I’ll let you know when I’m depositing the $6K commission check.
June 29, 2009 — 6:54 am
Louis Cammarosano says:
jay wrote
“Just because it may not be “innovative”, doesn’t work for everyone and just because some think it’s stupid doesn’t mean it’s not a viable tool.”
Exactly! my response to those that have been trashing homegain for years!!!!
BTW congratulations on the twitter business. Of course twitter or any other marketing outlet can lead to business.
I’ve yet to see dozens of realtors come forward claiming that they have sold DOZENS of homes using twitter.
The amount of discussion and conferences about twitter is disproportionate to the amount of business it generates.
Most realtors unfortunately are not having the same sucess as Jay on twitter and are spending far more time on it than he is.
YET they will shell out money and cross the country to attend conference after conference to learn how they can spend MORE time on twitter!
June 29, 2009 — 7:07 am
Todd Carpenter says:
“They finally got you to wear the tie, Todd.”
“Enough of the phallus size contests, Todd; it’s beneath you.”
“But at the same time I agree with Gregg Swan: Tod is the best thing to happen to the NAR since Realtor.com!”
“Oh, wow. This is so dumb”
“It’s ironic, isn’t it, that in a post about innovation, creativity and “great ideas that work”, that you have succumbed to the lowest denominator.”
“Just keep preaching that sermon, Todd. I am by now completely convinced that you are exactly the right man in exactly the right job.”
and finally,
” the grand poohbahs of the NAR come to us, lurking in cowardice.”
Well, I guess I’m not a grand poohbah, but I’m afraid to comment here. I’m not afraid to challenge all of your assertions. Most of all, I’m not afraid of how quickly the Bloodhounds choose to make it personal.
All I’ve done in this post is assert that innovative ideas are not as impressive as ideas that work. Often they are the same thing. Often they are not. If you want the title for most innovative blog, hey that’s cool. Wave that flag just as high as last years Iman winner does. I’d like to see something more though.
June 29, 2009 — 7:42 am
Greg Swann says:
Yo, Todd. It’s our birthday. Go pee in somebody else’s campfire.
June 29, 2009 — 8:05 am
Todd Carpenter says:
Happy Birthday Greg. I can’t wait to see what’s in store now that this bloodhound is all grown up.
June 29, 2009 — 8:32 am
Brian Brady says:
“I currently have one listing and three active buyer clients secured solely via initial contact through Twitter”
I guess Twitter works. Maybe the stuff we talk about on BHB really IS innovative.
PS: Nice work, Jay.
June 29, 2009 — 12:47 pm
Louis Cammarosano says:
Of courses twitter “works”.
There is always a nice anecdote about the wonder of getting a deal on twitter. A lot of head bobbing-“see it works”
Some homegain customers close a deal a day-so Homegain customer success is not anecdotal but constant.
We just inducted 17 members into our $500K diamond club-for homegain members earning over a half a million in commissions from homegain.
Anyone make that much on twitter?
There is a reason you can’t make that kind of money on twitter-its not set up to be a business forum
Anecdotes are fine but I don’t hear of hundreds of realtors closing dozens of deals a year on twitter.
Much gets written about twitter and each deal that closes makes the retweeted rounds ad nauseaum
Again, Im not really knocking twitter-its just vastly over hyped and over used
June 29, 2009 — 1:09 pm
Jay Thompson says:
Louis said: “Again, Im not really knocking twitter-its just vastly over hyped and over used”
Agreed completely!
I even said this, on the HomeGain Blog:
Twittering away the hours for lead generation is a waste of time and energy. That of course doesn’t stop a lot of people from trying to do just that. The Twitter stream is polluted with dozens and dozens of tweets every day from people shouting “I’m a Top Producer!” and “I can sell your home!”, or “Look at this listing!”.
It’s not an effective medium (nor is the audience right) for that kind of crap.
But it is a very effective medium for actively engaging people, and it is a great tool for meeting people “In Real Life” — which is, by far, the best “social network” on the planet.
June 29, 2009 — 1:26 pm
Louis Cammarosano says:
Jay its actually crazy that there are consultants and conferences to teach people “how to use social media”
If you have no social skills or realtor skills,”learning” twitter ain’t going to help you at all.
Where are the conferences on how to get business at your next cocktail party or at your son’s softball game?
Twitter is just another medium to meet and chat with people.Those types of fora are sometimes good to get business but are not the primary purposes of the fora.
Companies can use social media to pitch their products-if you chose to follow Dell or any other company, don;t expect enaging conversation-expect come ons, sales pitches etc which may be what you want or need if you are in the market for a new lap top or pair of shoes.
BTW-Happy anniversary Blood hound and to more of it in the coming years.
June 29, 2009 — 1:35 pm
Teri Lussier says:
>There is always a nice anecdote about the wonder of getting a deal on twitter. A lot of head bobbing-”see it works”
Not here. I’ve posted more about twitter than any Bloodhound, and I’m always reminded that it’s not a reliable source of income. True. Not yet, anyway.
But what you see here is someone saying, “Hey, what about this? What about that? Would this work? Why not? Let me hear it.” That’s innovation. Taking a chance, throwing an idea out there, running something up the flagpole. You know this Louis, because you’ve had your boxers run up the flagpole here, just like my twitter boxers, and my hyperlocal boxers.
There is no other place in the RE.net where ideas are free to flow- insanely great, and not so great, yours mine and ours. And no other place where they all get skewered, and praised, so quickly, so thoroughly, and with as much relish as on BHB. Nowhere. And as someone who has been on both ends of the skewer, I wouldn’t want it any other way!
June 29, 2009 — 1:42 pm
Louis cammarosano says:
Greg
Why not create a category on the bhb
“insanely great ideas”
June 29, 2009 — 1:45 pm
Louis cammarosano says:
Terri
Not here! We don’t see the type of mindless group think that permeates other blogs and conferences
As brian says innovation is sometimes recognizing what doesn’t work
Innovation is not always a new idea or technology
The bhs recognize this collectively not through
A singular point of view but rather arrived at through
The process of skewering and praising and re skewering and re praising and sometimes merely tossing aside a formerly well praised idea or adopting a formerly well skewered one
June 29, 2009 — 1:51 pm
Jay Thompson says:
“Jay its actually crazy that there are consultants and conferences to teach people “how to use social media””
Crazier still is people will pay to hear it…
I think we’re in complete agreement Louis.
I’m a big fan of Twitter. Not because it gets me “leads”. I get more leads than I can handle from my blog. That’s one reason I started my own brokerage — to hand off leads to people I know will take care of them. Of course I appreciate the business that I’ve gotten from Twitter — I won’t turn any viable business away.
I enjoy Twitter. It’s fun, and it’s a great way to keep in touch with people. Using it to join and organize “Tweet Ups” has introduced me to approximately 100 local people that I’ve met and now engage with in person. Many I now consider friends. Some of them have utilized my services, and some have referred me to their friends to help them buy /sell a home. That’s how a “sphere of influence” works (I realize this isn’t earth-shattering, innovative, speak. But it’s amazing how many don’t, can’t or won’t “get it”).
To date, Twitter has been one of the more effective ways for me to expand my SOI. That’s not the primary reason I use it, but it’s certainly a nice ancillary effect.
June 29, 2009 — 1:57 pm
Teri Lussier says:
Louis-
>skewering and praising and re skewering and re praising and sometimes merely tossing aside a formerly well praised idea or adopting a formerly well skewered one
That too! 🙂
June 29, 2009 — 2:06 pm