The best bloggers are connectors

On June 9, 2005, in In English, Viral Marketing, Weblogs, by Hans Mestrum

That is the opinion of Steve Rubel. With about 3025 feedreaders it is obvious that he is connected. And what Steve is doing most of the time is connecting and sharing. Connecting with other interesting postings, people, thoughts, figures a.s.o. and passing them through to us the readers. Most of the time he has an opinion, but Adam Weinroth think that this is not important. I disagree. Yes Steve is a connector and yes I like links to wonder through the enormous of knowledge and information, but I also like opinions. Most of the time it can be a few words, one sentence. Sometimes it is a background article stressing some points with arguments and figures. But please add your opinion Steve. It makes me think.


Ook interessant om te lezen:

  1. Are trackbacks spam?

    Steve does think it is nearly close to spam if the originally posting is five months old. So an old posting is linking into a...

  2. To share, to connect and to build business

    That’s why Steve Rubel of Micropersuasion is blogging. I could have said this. BlogWrite for CEOs has a second posting about the interview with Steve....

  3. links for 2009-05-27

    SMS2vote | Sendsteps Ask a question to a group and people will answer alike. Anonymous voting via cell phone is a comfortable solution. Every opinion...

  4. The interviewer being interviewed: Neville Hobson about weblogs and podcasts

    In PRWeek an interview with Neville Hobson. He produces the For Immediately Release Podcasts. Interesting article to read the opinion about his passions and ideas...

  5. coComment causing problems in loading pages

    It seems that coComment has real problems. You may experience long loading time here. Sorry for that. Especially on the sidebar. This is because the...

About the author

Hans Mestrum

Hans is nieuwe mediaspecialist bij de faculteit Techniek en Economie Management en Recht van de Hogeschool van Arnhem en Nijmegen. Daarvoor houdt hij o.a. deze weblog bij met videoblogs en fotoblogs van projecten, evenementen etc. Bovenaan in de menu's vind je de foto's en video's van de afzonderlijke opleidingen van faculteit Techniek en Economie Management en Recht en de diverse social media kanalen waar je ook content van mij kunt vinden. Onderaan zie je nog meer plaatsen waar ik sporen achterlaat.

Visit Authors Website

Delen mag!
Facebook Twitter Delicious StumbleUpon Digg LinkedIn Hyves NuJij Buffer

 
  • Mickel Langeveld

    Let’s hope not everybody only starts connecting. You need them both people who are focussing on generating original/interesting ideas and asking feedback on them. And people that connect other to those ideas. I myself think the first group is even a bit more important: without original content we don’t have anything. The connection can always be deliverd by search engines.
    Further I think that “hans on experience” is making a transition from content to connecting, something I would like to see otherwise. It’s a choice: reaching less people, but be more valuable to them. Personally I would loose all the ‘blog’ content and return towards the original issues.

  • Hans

    Hi Mickel, great feedback! What do you mean by ‘original issues’? In my opinion the blog content is part of the lifecycle of a blogger according to my earlier posting: metablogging. After this period I think the blogger reinvents his blog and content and returns with fresh new ideas. Could it be possible to serve both worlds? SO connecting & sharing?

  • Mickel Langeveld

    Your header says:
    About ideas, opinions, insights, books, reviews, servant leadership, education, experience economy, trends and more interesting “things” of life!
    It does not say “about blogging”. I get an overdosis concerning blogging nowadays. I don’t read the articles on that subject anymore (“blog content”). I don’t know if you see the same tendency in you readers accessing the subjects (or isn’t that possible to analyze) I would like you to introduce more ideas like “servant leadership” ande “experience economy”. Precious available time can be better spend on truly new subjects then on the technology that is called blogging. (i.m.h.o.)

  • Hans

    Blogging is a real great trend and for me interesting. As ICT Trendwatcher blogging and the technologies around it are important. They are also perfect examples of the experience economy: empowerment of the mass. So they combine both worlds: technology and experience. Besides this I start or follow ‘conversation’ in the blogosphere. Sometimes they are about blogging, sometimes they are not (as with my posting on De Vertraagde Tijd). For tomorrow I have posting which is interesting I hope about the new book of ALbert Boswijk: een nieuwe kijk op Experience Economy. And at the end I am writing these stuff because I like it. Of course I hope that other people also find it interesting but I cannot start conversations with everyone ;-) Thanks again for your great feedback.

Looking for something?

Use the form below to search the site:

Still not finding what you're looking for? Drop a comment on a post or contact us so we can take care of it!

Techniek studeer je bij de HAN
iBlogPro by PageLines