Here are some new people who you may want to start following on socialmedian. These aren't the most "popular" people on the site, but people who deserve to be more popular and followed.
@jasongoldberg Its great, But i'm already following most of them. I noticed some of them for the first time yesterday. I hope Leo spends more time time here,and Phil is great.
many of the ppl mentioned here aren't updating at all.. they are active on their blog & twitter etc. but not on S|M. So tell me again why we should follow them here?
@Adgenius whether they are active directly on socialmedian or not is fine so long as they are contributing great content that we can follow along from. @LouisGray for instance is awesome at sharing stuff from Google Reader. Ditto @robdiana. My bet is that with all these folks if a large # of people are following them on socialmedian AND engaging in constructive dialogue around the stories they contribute, that over time they'll be more and more drawn in to participate here directly too.
@jasongoldberg : I truly hope so.. because they are experts in their field and I love to hear more from them. But atm I don't find it necessary to follow them just because of the reason they are "famous", this due to a current lack of info sharing.
@jasongoldberg @adgenius there is a high percentage of folks who will sign up to check it out and not return. Happens at all Social Networks. The ones that remain are cream of the crop. You know I'll be here.
@louisgray Thanks Louis. About 30% of the people who discovered socialmedian around the time of our move from alpha to beta August 1st have remained highly active. Another 30% have been periodically active. The remaining 40% checked it out and never got into it. BUT, what we're also finding is that folks in the past 72 hours are now starting to come back to socialmedian -- that the updated feature set is more complete and compelling, and that those who are trying socialmedian again or for the first time now, are sticking with it at much higher rates. We'll continue to monitor it and keep at it...