Comments on: Blogs are for Dialogue; Twitter is for Snippets

By: Blogging Do’s and Don’ts : Part I « 3Fold

Blogging Do’s and Don’ts : Part I « 3Fold — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 04:37:02 +0000

[...] Do write in a way that encourages people to dialogue. Ask questions, and even consider bringing up questions that are controversial, or that will illicit plenty of different opinions. PR Breakfast Club has a great post on this topic, found by clicking here. [...]

By: Kate Ottavio

Kate Ottavio — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 07:46:09 +0000

I work with a genius and therefore have a severe inferiority complex…

Kidding. Great stuff, D!

By: Kate Ottavio

Kate Ottavio — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 03:46:09 +0000

I work with a genius and therefore have a severe inferiority complex…

Kidding. Great stuff, D!

By: sherri haymond

sherri haymond — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 15:32:33 +0000

Great post, Danielle. I agree that tweets are sort of like a highlight reel – for the full story, you often need a blog post (or a comment thereto…) to flush it out. Not to change the subject, but just to exapand the concept's applicability – I feel the same way about a company website. As my friend @photobiz said at a recent presentation, a company website is sort of like a snapshot brochure – where the blog that accompanies it really brings out the company's (or its proprietor's) personality and point of view. Oftentimes the message in a tweet gets lost because it's so short – and if you're trying to express something complex (and all of us are high-level complex thinkers… ), a flushed out blog post is usually the way to go. Looking forward to continuing this conversation.

By: Danny Brown

Danny Brown — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 15:08:04 +0000

I think you have it down to perfection, Danielle. They aren't competitors; they are two very different approaches.

Where my post was mainly coming from was having the conversations on Twitter (and other platforms) around the post, as opposed to through the post.

While this is great, and it's still opening up the conversation, it's fracturing it. So, Reader A who just reads the blog misses some salient point from Reader B on Twitter, or Reader C discusses on LinkedIn and neither Reader A or B benefit from that comment and any great points it makes.

If we could find an aggregator system (similar to DISQUS) that brought in all meaningful discussions around a post (and not simply a RT or Digg submission), I think we could really go places in blog commenting.

Cheers!

By: TJ

TJ — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 14:47:19 +0000

This reminds me of when @stephenfry began twittering way back when (maybe last year?), which is why I got a Twitter account to begin with. He was so used to long-form writing that his tweets inevitably trailed off into ... territory. Now he's a master twitterer, of course, and lately he's been microblogging when his thoughts get too long for a tweet.

This is the first in a long line of times where I will use Stephen Fry as an example of all things awesome. I apologize in advance.