Where to comment on a blog post about Twitter
A few hours ago, I posted about Twitter's usefulness as a personal search engine. Then I went to twitter and pointed people following me there to my new blog post. A few people have posted comments on that post. A good deal more people have posted response at Twitter. A few people -including me- have toggled between the two.
After I tweet my surprise that people left the blog and went to Twitter to respond, a new conversation was set off that discussed--among other things--the "proper" place to respond to a blog post about Twitter.
To be honest, I don't care where you comment. I am just very grateful to have you engage in conversation with me. I am gratified that what I wrote motivated anyone to think and respond.
Always fun. The best way is probably to post replies to comments in Twitter in Twitter and replies to a blog post in the blog post. The back and forth can drive people crazy if they are not active in both. The comments inline with the content makes it easier for others to follow and chime in. Then again, the benefit of doing the cross posting of replies is that it pulls in people from each medium into the other and possibly leads to a richer interaction. To each their own as long as they interact and share their thoughts. That is what makes this so great.
Posted by: Mark Neff | July 23, 2008 at 01:55 PM
Shel, a post like that is no way to fan the flamewars. Shape up! ;-)
Posted by: Bob LeDrew | July 23, 2008 at 02:21 PM
Too funny - my post from March:
http://www.marketingtechblog.com/2008/03/15/twitter-is-my-new-search-engine/
Posted by: Douglas Karr | July 23, 2008 at 04:45 PM
Again..I respond to your post on twitter and send it out into no where space...where is the conversation? I'm being really sincere..I go to twitter now...where do I find people talking about your blog post...summize? I search shel and the last @shelisrael was like 34 minutes, 40 minutes and 6 hours ago.
Where's the beef?
Posted by: james svenson | July 23, 2008 at 11:30 PM
My friend just wrote a blog about that too. http://web.bentley.edu/students/d/derusha_will/380/final/blog/2008/05/social-computing-twitter-workaround.html
Sounds like everyone is in agreement!
Side comment - I did a job shadow at Intel today, got a behind the scenes look that Circuit, Intel's intranet. Met with Mike Green, the Director of Employee Communications - he said he knew you and told me to tell you "hi" for him.
Posted by: Jenna | July 24, 2008 at 02:04 PM
My friend just wrote a blog about that too. http://web.bentley.edu/students/d/derusha_will/380/final/blog/2008/05/social-computing-twitter-workaround.html
Sounds like everyone is in agreement!
Side comment - I did a job shadow at Intel today, got a behind the scenes look that Circuit, Intel's intranet. Met with Mike Green, the Director of Employee Communications - he said he knew you and told me to tell you "hi" for him.
Posted by: Jenna | July 24, 2008 at 02:04 PM
Jenna,
Sy hi back to Mike Green for me.
Posted by: shel israel | July 24, 2008 at 04:30 PM