Comments for David B. Thomas http://www.dbthomas.com enterprise social media marketing, plus being a dad who loves tech, cooking and music Mon, 23 Apr 2012 15:20:00 -0400 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Comment on Enterprise content marketers are making a huge mistake with Facebook by Lisa Sullivan http://www.dbthomas.com/2012/04/22/enterprise-content-marketers-are-making-a-huge-mistake-with-facebook/comment-page-1/#comment-1669 Lisa Sullivan Mon, 23 Apr 2012 15:20:00 +0000 http://www.dbthomas.com/?p=2642#comment-1669 Agreed. Our Fonville Morisey "Faces of Fonville" blog is the core of what we do, the center of the wheel so to speak. Everything else is considered the spokes. I couldn't imagine throwing all of our eggs (or mine even) into one basket. That's not sound advice from a brand standpoint at all. Thanks for sharing your thoughts & the article, Dave! Agreed. Our Fonville Morisey “Faces of Fonville” blog is the core of what we do, the center of the wheel so to speak. Everything else is considered the spokes. I couldn’t imagine throwing all of our eggs (or mine even) into one basket. That’s not sound advice from a brand standpoint at all. Thanks for sharing your thoughts & the article, Dave!

]]> Comment on Enterprise content marketers are making a huge mistake with Facebook by Janet Thaeler http://www.dbthomas.com/2012/04/22/enterprise-content-marketers-are-making-a-huge-mistake-with-facebook/comment-page-1/#comment-1668 Janet Thaeler Sun, 22 Apr 2012 19:28:00 +0000 http://www.dbthomas.com/?p=2642#comment-1668 Thank you David. I cringed when I heard the first company I started blogging for deleted the blog after I left and they didn't keep it updated. Postsecret is a very popular blog only gets updated weekly. Even if the content is old or updated can still send traffic. I find it interesting that traffic is one reason people participate in social media. And blogging is one of the best ways to get not only traffic but social media shares. In fact, I bet you found my post from a tweet that goes out whenever I publish a new blog post. Blog On, Janet Thank you David. I cringed when I heard the first company I started blogging for deleted the blog after I left and they didn’t keep it updated. Postsecret is a very popular blog only gets updated weekly. Even if the content is old or updated can still send traffic. I find it interesting that traffic is one reason people participate in social media. And blogging is one of the best ways to get not only traffic but social media shares.
In fact, I bet you found my post from a tweet that goes out whenever I publish a new blog post.
Blog On,
Janet

]]> Comment on Your customers don’t believe you because you lie to them every day by Marnie Macdonald http://www.dbthomas.com/2012/04/17/your-customers-dont-believe-you-because-you-lie-to-them-every-day/comment-page-1/#comment-1667 Marnie Macdonald Tue, 17 Apr 2012 10:15:00 +0000 http://www.dbthomas.com/?p=2639#comment-1667 Agreed! And to add to that, I hate when a company half-apologises, as in "we apologise IF we have caused any problems". It really irks me that they don't say "THAT". They know they have, so let's not pretend everything's fine! Agreed! And to add to that, I hate when a company half-apologises, as in “we apologise IF we have caused any problems”. It really irks me that they don’t say “THAT”. They know they have, so let’s not pretend everything’s fine!

]]> Comment on What I want in a blogging platform by Keith Burtis http://www.dbthomas.com/2012/02/20/what-i-want-in-a-blogging-platform/comment-page-1/#comment-1666 Keith Burtis Mon, 20 Feb 2012 16:32:00 +0000 http://www.dbthomas.com/?p=2618#comment-1666 Dave, this is a conundrum because every time I read one of your "Want's" and thought of a solution your next want would make me scribble that solution out. Anyway, If I ignore number seven this sounds an awful lot like Google Plus. I know quite a few bloggers that have pushed all of their content there. (The API is growing) Google plus has a feature (on android-maybe iPhone) where all of your photos are uploaded and backed up to the service. You then have the ability to approve them individually to share or not to share. The length of the posts is basically unlimited where Facebook limits the characters on the wall.  You know me well Dave. You are looking for features here of which I believe could probably be built however my question is always, "What do you want to accomplish?" My biggest issue with most social networks is that there is no call-to-action beyond asking people to click something in text. The blog, in my opinion, offers a ton of flexibility and the ability to customize where by social media is so often within the platform rules.  As far as "Owning the Content" I think that is important to some and not really important to others. I know that my daughter doesn't care, at least right now, whether she can export her Facebook data. I think most people use social as a communications platform and not as a service of records. I don't know. Your post has a lot going through my head. Lets pick off your needs one at a time and go from there :) -Keith Dave, this is a conundrum because every time I read one of your “Want’s” and thought of a solution your next want would make me scribble that solution out. Anyway, If I ignore number seven this sounds an awful lot like Google Plus. I know quite a few bloggers that have pushed all of their content there. (The API is growing) Google plus has a feature (on android-maybe iPhone) where all of your photos are uploaded and backed up to the service. You then have the ability to approve them individually to share or not to share. The length of the posts is basically unlimited where Facebook limits the characters on the wall. 

You know me well Dave. You are looking for features here of which I believe could probably be built however my question is always, “What do you want to accomplish?” My biggest issue with most social networks is that there is no call-to-action beyond asking people to click something in text. The blog, in my opinion, offers a ton of flexibility and the ability to customize where by social media is so often within the platform rules. 

As far as “Owning the Content” I think that is important to some and not really important to others. I know that my daughter doesn’t care, at least right now, whether she can export her Facebook data. I think most people use social as a communications platform and not as a service of records. I don’t know. Your post has a lot going through my head. Lets pick off your needs one at a time and go from there :)

-Keith

]]> Comment on I’m no attorney but that could harm your defense by Dthomas http://www.dbthomas.com/2012/01/30/im-no-attorney-but-that-could-harm-your-defense/comment-page-1/#comment-1665 Dthomas Tue, 31 Jan 2012 14:12:00 +0000 http://www.dbthomas.com/?p=2608#comment-1665 read him his rights. read him his rights.

]]> Comment on Adding punctuation with Siri speech-to-text on the iPhone 4S by BrandonDesign http://www.dbthomas.com/2011/10/16/adding-punctuation-with-siri-speech-to-text/comment-page-1/#comment-1664 BrandonDesign Wed, 30 Nov 2011 20:14:00 +0000 http://www.dbthomas.com/2011/10/16/adding-punctuation-with-siri-speech-to-text/#comment-1664 I found you could actually spell words such as those to get them in voice. Same with hard to recognize words or names. I found you could actually spell words such as those to get them in voice. Same with hard to recognize words or names.

]]> Comment on Adding punctuation with Siri speech-to-text on the iPhone 4S by Garybannett http://www.dbthomas.com/2011/10/16/adding-punctuation-with-siri-speech-to-text/comment-page-1/#comment-1663 Garybannett Thu, 20 Oct 2011 11:36:00 +0000 http://www.dbthomas.com/2011/10/16/adding-punctuation-with-siri-speech-to-text/#comment-1663 What about the new paragraph. Did you just say "new paragraph" ? What about the new paragraph. Did you just say “new paragraph” ?

]]> Comment on Adding punctuation with Siri speech-to-text on the iPhone 4S by David B. Thomas http://www.dbthomas.com/2011/10/16/adding-punctuation-with-siri-speech-to-text/comment-page-1/#comment-1662 David B. Thomas Tue, 18 Oct 2011 20:52:00 +0000 http://www.dbthomas.com/2011/10/16/adding-punctuation-with-siri-speech-to-text/#comment-1662 Indeed. Indeed.

]]> Comment on Adding punctuation with Siri speech-to-text on the iPhone 4S by Alison http://www.dbthomas.com/2011/10/16/adding-punctuation-with-siri-speech-to-text/comment-page-1/#comment-1661 Alison Tue, 18 Oct 2011 20:39:00 +0000 http://www.dbthomas.com/2011/10/16/adding-punctuation-with-siri-speech-to-text/#comment-1661 Did you say, "open parentheses," and "close parentheses," to do the parenthetical statements?  Did you say, “open parentheses,” and “close parentheses,” to do the parenthetical statements? 

]]> Comment on Adding punctuation with Siri speech-to-text on the iPhone 4S by David B. Thomas http://www.dbthomas.com/2011/10/16/adding-punctuation-with-siri-speech-to-text/comment-page-1/#comment-1660 David B. Thomas Sun, 16 Oct 2011 17:37:00 +0000 http://www.dbthomas.com/2011/10/16/adding-punctuation-with-siri-speech-to-text/#comment-1660 Yeah, that's the part I had to type. Yeah, that’s the part I had to type.

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