On January 12th, I posted a tweet asking the question, “If a business were going to hire you for a few hours per week to apply your social media savvy, how would you best use that time for them?” I asked it because it was asked of me in just that same way.
Six days later (and five minutes before I started writing this post) @missinglinknz answered me with this thought… “given a few hrs per wk to help w social media, we’d find out where conversation is happening and join it…” and a link to an article entitled ‘Find The Kitchen’: Your New Online Marketing Mantra.
The article is cool, you should definitely check it out. The author writes about the kitchen being the place at a party where both the food and the conversation are to be found. That’s a golden thought. But what impressed me even more was how I was engaged in the conversation. I post at least a dozen tweets per day on a slow day. Six days passed and one user either remembered my tweet, bookmarked it, or found it in a search and reached out to grab me, engaging my question with a great answer.
I was impressed.
I read the article.
I’m going to hang on to the artilce, subscribe to the feed, and see what other conversations arise in the future.
Maybe there’s a good lesson in this exchange for the rest of us… conversation matters… a lot!
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Thanks for the great article on conversation part of blogging..
Yes, it really matters!
Having read the whole article one thing I was missing is “Go beyond the basics” that you have mentioned in one point, this thing is really very important in writing which most of the writers and blogger miss it.
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Hmmm that was great :)
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Hmmm … Southerners have known for a long time that the party always ends up in the kitchen where we spend time just sittin and pickin at the food. It doesn’t matter where it starts, people just naturally gravitate towards the kitchen.
I am quite surprised to find out you are a wall flower. I would have assumed you were someone who worked the room. A great way to work networking meetings and seminars is to hang out at the food tables. There’s something about it that just puts people at ease and starts up conversations.
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We all contain our surprises, haha. Actually, being a Pastor has forced me to come out of my shell and learn how to network with people. In fact, I’ve really come to love people and love meeting people, but there’s still that inner tug saying “stay safe, stay quiet.”
Being in the kitchen is great but not if you are more engaged in eating and not talking. :)
You see groups of people that attend seminars. Some sit there, quietly soak up the information that is shared by the speakers and then they leave without any engagement with fellow attendees.
The ones that get the real benefit are those that interact with the other people attending, sharing ideas and experiences.
The long-lasting effect of doing the latter can be much more rewarding than the seminar itself (leading to partnerships, joint ventures etc).
So, how you use your time in the kitchen is so important.
A great find Brandon,
Karl
Excellent point, Karl. I’ve had the tendency to be that wallflower in the past, so to speak, but I’ve learned so much in recent years about just reaching out to shake a hand and encourage somebody.
i totally agree with karl…10 different people could understand a particular statement in 10 ways.only when you ask and share that you get the other person understanding and widen your in the process..
cool point..
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First I want to say (even though it may not be the point of the article) that the kitchen IS where it is at! Of course, I am a foodie, so that is where you will find me!
Great article, I would have commented, but you know how I feel about obstacles when commenting and you had to register/sign in to comment on that blog.
Great find though, I was recently faced with similar questions as I manage a couple of communities and you MUST make good use of the time allotted for you to meet the objective.
It is easy to look in the wrong places…
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I’m with you on that. And after I said I’d subscribe, I didn’t find an rss link – you have to join to do that too. Bad UX mojo!
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Brandon, thats a good article. Its also impressive about the tweet as well. Something to think about.
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It certainly set a good example for me.