Comments on: Who needs emails anyway, rise of Egommunication http://www.conradstrydom.com/2008/08/13/egommunication/ views and commentary from a web engineer Tue, 31 Mar 2009 09:33:36 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Doc Searls http://www.conradstrydom.com/2008/08/13/egommunication/comment-page-1/#comment-8 Doc Searls Thu, 21 Aug 2008 14:55:35 +0000 http://conradstrydom.wordpress.com/?p=29#comment-8 New tools are always good. As it happens, I have a folder called "Vanity" in my RSS feed aggregator. That's where syndicated Technorati, Google Blogsearch and Blogpulse searches for my name show up. Also where searches for my various blog URLs show as well. But the reason they're all there has nothing to do with vanity and everything to do with ordinary conversation. I like to hold up my side of conversations that I'm in, and I can't do that if I don't know I'm in them. It also helps to know if topics I bring up are interesting, or if I'm participating productively in topics others bring up. Vanity feeds are one way of doing that. So are subject searches. I keep feeds for any number of those as well. In any case, we have a long way to go. Thanks for pushing us in the right direction. New tools are always good.

As it happens, I have a folder called “Vanity” in my RSS feed aggregator. That’s where syndicated Technorati, Google Blogsearch and Blogpulse searches for my name show up. Also where searches for my various blog URLs show as well.

But the reason they’re all there has nothing to do with vanity and everything to do with ordinary conversation. I like to hold up my side of conversations that I’m in, and I can’t do that if I don’t know I’m in them.

It also helps to know if topics I bring up are interesting, or if I’m participating productively in topics others bring up. Vanity feeds are one way of doing that.

So are subject searches. I keep feeds for any number of those as well.

In any case, we have a long way to go. Thanks for pushing us in the right direction.

]]> By: Dave http://www.conradstrydom.com/2008/08/13/egommunication/comment-page-1/#comment-7 Dave Thu, 14 Aug 2008 13:56:04 +0000 http://conradstrydom.wordpress.com/?p=29#comment-7 This is such a great way to reach out to hard-to-reach people and companies. I have inadvertently picked up two corporate clients by writing about them in the past. This is such a great way to reach out to hard-to-reach people and companies.
I have inadvertently picked up two corporate clients by writing about them in the past.

]]> By: Lester Hein http://www.conradstrydom.com/2008/08/13/egommunication/comment-page-1/#comment-6 Lester Hein Wed, 13 Aug 2008 16:54:16 +0000 http://conradstrydom.wordpress.com/?p=29#comment-6 Great post Conrad, I've used some of the same tactics in the past and it worked. In keeping with my "whatever works" philosophy, I have to say that I'm an egommunication fan. Technology such as Brandseye will take this a step further in the not too distant future, i think. Brandseye is at the cutting/bleeding edge of the ORM market at the moment and is a great, easy to use tool.As the market catches on, there will be followers and copy cat services available to Joe Blog which will be free, so anyone can now see how to attract attention online by name dropping. Something that I think will become commonplace in this future is for the media to get called out in this way. A journo is only as good as their rep, so it would make sense for them to keep a hawk eye on their ORM with a brandseye type service. Anyone looking to attract the attention of a particular newso will then only have to drop their name. That is until the service gets saturated and we're back in the email/spam scenario. Lester Hein Great post Conrad, I’ve used some of the same tactics in the past and it worked. In keeping with my “whatever works” philosophy, I have to say that I’m an egommunication fan.

Technology such as Brandseye will take this a step further in the not too distant future, i think. Brandseye is at the cutting/bleeding edge of the ORM market at the moment and is a great, easy to use tool.As the market catches on, there will be followers and copy cat services available to Joe Blog which will be free, so anyone can now see how to attract attention online by name dropping.

Something that I think will become commonplace in this future is for the media to get called out in this way. A journo is only as good as their rep, so it would make sense for them to keep a hawk eye on their ORM with a brandseye type service. Anyone looking to attract the attention of a particular newso will then only have to drop their name.

That is until the service gets saturated and we’re back in the email/spam scenario.

Lester Hein

]]> By: Conrad http://www.conradstrydom.com/2008/08/13/egommunication/comment-page-1/#comment-5 Conrad Wed, 13 Aug 2008 10:29:16 +0000 http://conradstrydom.wordpress.com/?p=29#comment-5 Oh yes I forgot about that one. Why not free for bloggers? At $1 it may as well be free? Oh yes I forgot about that one. Why not free for bloggers? At $1 it may as well be free?

]]> By: rafiq http://www.conradstrydom.com/2008/08/13/egommunication/comment-page-1/#comment-4 rafiq Wed, 13 Aug 2008 10:20:39 +0000 http://conradstrydom.wordpress.com/?p=29#comment-4 Geekspin meet @brandseye http://www.bradnseye.com maybe it should be renamed the egommunication tool of choice* ? How do you think i find all these mention? Geekspin meet @brandseye http://www.bradnseye.com maybe it should be renamed the egommunication tool of choice* ?

How do you think i find all these mention?

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