Comments on: Social media gurus nailed in Onion parody

By: Brad Bell

Brad Bell — Mon, 26 Nov 2012 11:24:00 +0000

White Noise is a masterpiece.

THE MOST PHOTOGRAPHED BARN IN AMERICA
http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/541239-we-drove-22-miles-into-the-country-around-farmington-there

By: bklynchris

bklynchris — Sat, 24 Nov 2012 01:01:00 +0000

I see your:
“Enable user-centred feeds by integrating podcasting ecologies in order to reinvent Cluetrain platforms whilst creating social life-hacks with tag embedded ecologies.”

and raise you one:
“engage long-tailed blogospheres”

By: bklynchris

bklynchris — Sat, 24 Nov 2012 00:51:00 +0000

This is how I felt when razorfish (‘memba them?) went public. Office in Helsinki my ass.

By: bklynchris

bklynchris — Sat, 24 Nov 2012 00:47:00 +0000

Yes, exactly the point of the sketch. Your friends are who they are poking fun at.

By: paulj

paulj — Fri, 23 Nov 2012 19:08:00 +0000

As usual, XKCD has this nailed: http://xkcd.com/1138/

By: Metostopholes

Metostopholes — Fri, 23 Nov 2012 10:21:00 +0000

I like your comment!

By: Thomas Baxter

Thomas Baxter — Fri, 23 Nov 2012 09:53:00 +0000

Ideas?! Whoa! Keep those dirty words to yourself or you will find yourself out of a job soon enough. Unless your idea is: “OK, so we’ll incentivize page views with some product giveaways!” That’ll shoot you right to the top! That ones gratis…

By: Christopher Carr

Christopher Carr — Fri, 23 Nov 2012 07:19:00 +0000

Hit a little close to home, does it?

By: Ping Kee

Ping Kee — Fri, 23 Nov 2012 00:47:00 +0000

The big PR firms are cleaning up on this. They’ve hitched stakeholder engagement and crisis management services to the social media bandwagon and charge a fortune for new “tools”. Here’s a true example of how it works.

PR firm X has a client that wants to know what stakeholders it should engage with in China. PR firm X sells a “proprietary tool” to the client, which they imply uses complex algorithms to identify and weight “key” stakeholders. In reality, they ring me and ask for a list of NGOs, government officials, journalists and academics who know something about the “issues”. They want me to do it for free. I tell them to go to hell. Who knows what load of alogrithmic dross the client gets. Who cares… PR firms and their clients deserve each other.

By: taras

taras — Thu, 22 Nov 2012 23:46:00 +0000

I’ve been to conferences like this.

“Let me let you in on a little secret – QR codes. They’re going to be big.”
“If you don’t have a Twitter account, you’re dead in the water!”
etc.

Fortunately, a lot of people are sick of this shit – I think (at least in techier conferences) it’s finally dying a death.

By: Aram Jahn

Aram Jahn — Thu, 22 Nov 2012 23:45:00 +0000

I have never seen “The Pitch,” but your description of the episode reminds me of the part of Don DeLillo’s novel White Noise, where everyone wants to go take a picture of some barn somewhere, because it’s widely known that it’s the most photographed barn in the world. Why? Who cares? It’s the most-photographed!

By: Aram Jahn

Aram Jahn — Thu, 22 Nov 2012 23:43:00 +0000

Somewhere, Douglas Rushkoff is actually giggling at this. And who has seen Doug bust up, ever? I haven’t. He’s so damned earnest, brilliant…but I bet he laffs his ass off at this. I know I did.

And tofagerl and miasm: did you guys use some sorta “social media gobbledygook generator” or did have you read so much of the social media BS that it spewed perfectly out of your fingers? Because your posts made me laff, too. Thanks!

By: Sirkowski

Sirkowski — Thu, 22 Nov 2012 20:54:00 +0000

You’re a TED fan, are you?

By: Matisse Enzer

Matisse Enzer — Thu, 22 Nov 2012 20:38:00 +0000

“Using your brains to think of an idea, and your skills to implement it: That’s the old model.”

By: miasm

miasm — Thu, 22 Nov 2012 18:55:00 +0000

Enable user-centred feeds by integrating podcasting ecologies in order to reinvent Cluetrain platforms whilst creating social life-hacks with tag embedded ecologies.

http://emptybottle.org/bullshit/index.php

By: Jem Sweeney

Jem Sweeney — Thu, 22 Nov 2012 18:10:00 +0000

Finally, an echo chamber I want to live in.

By: novium

novium — Thu, 22 Nov 2012 17:50:00 +0000

I don’t know man. I’m right in the prime demographic for setting yourself up as a “social media guru” (several of my friends have done it, and have made bank, and they don’t know anything about social media that I don’t), and to me it’s all bullshit (more power to them), just exploiting the fact that traditional marketers were convinced that social media was some strange new world that they needed a guide to get through. rather, than, you know, just someone setting up a basic twitter/facebook account and then getting the company to use it.

By: cycle23

cycle23 — Thu, 22 Nov 2012 17:28:00 +0000

You sound like a social media guru.

By: James Kimbell

James Kimbell — Thu, 22 Nov 2012 16:50:00 +0000

This looks like a Fox News attempt at comedy. Oh, those kids with their new ideas that aren’t real and don’t involve work.

By: sqyntz

sqyntz — Thu, 22 Nov 2012 15:38:00 +0000

Wait, i just hired this guy to expand my twitter footprint! WTF?

By: mdot

mdot — Thu, 22 Nov 2012 15:38:00 +0000

I am reading a book called “Social Media is Bullshit” by B.J Mendelson right now. It is a worthy read. Here is an interview where he talks about it. http://bjmendelson.com/

By: giantasterisk

giantasterisk — Thu, 22 Nov 2012 15:17:00 +0000

Reminds me of an episode of “The Pitch,” a competition reality show about ad agencies, where the client, PopChips, wanted an agency to create “the greatest, longest, most watched viral video of all time.” But the agencies only had a couple of days. Nothing even resembling and idea came out of the “creative” process. In the end, the winning agency created a shiny, colorful Flash video ad, to be posted on YouTube, that literally said, “In 2012, PopChips will create the greatest, longest, most watched viral video of all time, and you can be a part of it!” The client was thrilled — those guys really understood their brand!

Question is, how the hell can anyone be so stupid?

By: tofagerl

tofagerl — Thu, 22 Nov 2012 14:40:00 +0000

See, what you have to do is leverage the talent already invested by the company itself, synergize their output with the social model and harvest the customers interest graphs so that you can put together a mashup that will truly generate buzz around the social media product.

In other words, put some shit on a facebook page.

By: groovyeyal

groovyeyal — Thu, 22 Nov 2012 14:20:00 +0000

Truth!

By: MarlboroTestMonkey7

MarlboroTestMonkey7 — Thu, 22 Nov 2012 14:04:00 +0000

I like this!