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Oct 08, 2008
http://www.socialmedian.com/leolaporte http://www.socialmedian.com/locris http://www.socialmedian.com/itafroma http://www.socialmedian.com/eng1ne http://www.socialmedian.com/solacetech http://www.socialmedian.com/sarahintampa http://www.socialmedian.com/Russellreno http://www.socialmedian.com/rafe http://www.socialmedian.com/jasonkincaid http://www.socialmedian.com/matthewcooper http://www.socialmedian.com/jimbradysp http://www.socialmedian.com/zee http://www.socialmedian.com/jowyang
Oct 08, 2008
Oct 08, 2008
@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.
Oct 08, 2008
@jasongoldberg You should add @akrage for most creative new network. And you totally forgot @bwana . That video he made was really great!
Oct 08, 2008
@michaelfidler @sarahcrisman Few more interesting people to follow: http://www.socialmedian.com/duncanriley http://www.socialmedian.com/gossipcraze http://www.socialmedian.com/sheuer http://www.socialmedian.com/dobata http://www.socialmedian.com/DanielJPritchett http://www.socialmedian.com/greghollingsworth
Oct 08, 2008
A few more to add:
http://www.socialmedian.com/krynsky http://www.socialmedian.com/IdoNotes http://www.socialmedian.com/shey http://www.socialmedian.com/susanbeebe http://www.socialmedian.com/bwana I am sure I am missing a few people as well. 
Oct 08, 2008
@nishith Thank you!
@michaelfidler @jasongoldberg A couple of my favorites: http://www.socialmedian.com/crimsonexe http://www.socialmedian.com/phillymarketing
Oct 08, 2008
@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.
Oct 09, 2008
@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.
Oct 09, 2008
@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.
Oct 09, 2008
@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...
Oct 09, 2008
@jasongoldberg @louisgray : Some of them hasn't almost contributed anything such as http://www.socialmedian.com/rafe , http://www.socialmedian.com/jasonkincaid , http://www.socialmedian.com/jimbradysp so why recommend them? SOme of them almost looks like spammers to me. With wrong personal photos....
Oct 09, 2008
@jasongoldberg @svartling has a good point, a lot of those people haven't made a post. On the bright side, I decided to put a little list of my own together of people you might have looked. The good news is while I was collecting the url's yesterday, I noticed a dozen socialmedian's had returned for the first time yesterday, after months away! I going to post this list!
Oct 09, 2008
@svartling part of the point of recommending some of these folks was to re-energize them... in some cases, like matt cooper, they are smart and intriguing people who I personally know, and who have told me they would be back ...
Oct 09, 2008
I like to look at lists and make my own call, tend to be selective myself as following the wrong people can make the overall experience pretty weak.
It's the same with Twitter, I am very thorough in who I actually follow myself, not just anyone. And certainly don't reciprocate when someone follows me that I have no 'subject interest in'. Same goes for Social MEdian. Plus it takes time for people to get into a new service. I am getting more into it on a daily basis now, always check daily, it's always the first place in submitting stories, over Stumble etc. I love it and can see myself getting very involved. Graham Smith
Oct 09, 2008
@jasongoldberg maybe you could make a page similar like http://justtweetit.com/ where S|M users can selects 1 category (i.e. social media) they are "promoting" the most.. On that page you can also find how many articles they have posted until now(+ average a day,..). This way you get a more accurate list of active users you wish to follow + categorized per topic => this instead of the "popular" list which doesn't reflect the "interest level" that much
Oct 09, 2008
@jasongoldberg I think that those who are most active should get some help along and be seen in such a list instead.
Oct 09, 2008
@Jasongoldberg @imjustcreative @Adgenius Good points and ideas. Personally, I agree about being selective about who I follow and interact with. Although, I've been "giving people a try" lately and then remove 'em from my list if their interests don't really match mine, or if they don't add much value. I always enjoy humor and relevant info, news, etc. I'm getting a bit worn from purely-partisan-political noise lately though...
Oct 09, 2008
@michaelfidler : thx for the list! checking it out and already found some interesting newsmakers.. a new ranking-system would still prove very handy though!
Oct 09, 2008
@Adgenius I have a problem getting all the links to post right. I'm going to just wait for an answer from Jason
Oct 09, 2008
@jasongoldberg I'm interested in your thoughts on this. While I'm only a recent addition to the SocialMedian community (though I have been actively engaged on FriendFeed, Del.icio.us, etc..) for some time...so I may be speaking a bit out of turn here...I think that what's largely missing from most socially focused new sites is diversity of interests and intelligent/well informed contributors outside of a few main subject areas. The notion that if you build it, they will come, doesn't really seem to be holding true.
The subjects I see most strongly represented here are tech (very generally speaking), commentary about SocialMedian and social news sites in the broader context, Politics which most of us geeks are interested as well and maybe a bit about Web x.0. I just don't find very vibrant communities springing up (whether here, on Friendfeed or anywhere else really) around other subject matter. Admittedly, achieving critical mass of interest is challenging even under the best of circumstances. I suspect this is largely because the people who are informed on many of these subjects have better things to do and we're well informed geeks who think technology can organize and improve most everything. What are your thoughts here? Do you intend SocialMedian to address broader communities of interests, or do you intend to keep it focused on tech / politics? If the former, do you think it's been successful, and if not, how do think you'll draw people in?
Oct 09, 2008
@gregscher Greg - this is a great and important question. We have purposely taken a "let 1000 flowers bloom" approach with socialmedian. Users can create News Networks on any topic and we have seen nearly 2000 News Networks created already on an amazingly diverse range of topics. It is not a shock to me that tech, the economy, and politics are currently the "hottest" topics as tech appeals to the early adopters, while the economy and politics are dominating the news. That said, one of the beautiful things about socialmedian is that no two users have the same homepage news feed -- each of our users has their own personalized experience based on their interests and their social graph / connections. There are already interesting discussions happening in micro communities on socialmedian that many folks don't see because they are not in those communities. Will we do more to foster other topics emerging? I'm not sure. My hope is to let the community take it where they want to take it vs. forcing it. That said, we may find some ways to give it a push in certain directions from time to time, as we did a couple of weeks ago by highlighting the financial crisis as a key topic.
Oct 09, 2008
I'm a bit confused....
You tell us that those are the people that should be followed, but then you tell us that some of them don't contribute much, and that you've posted in the hope that they wll contribute more? OK, well in that case I think we should all follow Johnny Depp in the hope he'll post more here..... I don't mind haveing recommendations for people to follow, but at least give a reason to follow them! And @ThomasPower - recommending that people follow YOURSELF is a little narcissistic, even for you honey...
Oct 09, 2008
@NikkiPilkington Hey there -- in the heading to this post I noted that these were some "NEW" people you may want to follow. I note: "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."
Oct 09, 2008
@nikkipilkington additionally, there are someone who contribute a lot of good content but aren't engaged in discussion (i.e. active on the site). S|M does a better job than any social media site I've seen at pulling in your content from many sources and I think it's easy to forget that there is possibly a discussion fomenting on your content because of that.
There are a lot of newer users that are clipping a lot of good stuff and the more followed they are, the more likely they may be to join the discussion. I'm honored to be included in this list. 
Oct 09, 2008
Thanks @Nishith! I am still trying to figure out how to mix Social Median in with my other content streaming tools (mostly gReader and FF). It's nice to be able to bounce from one to the other and always have something new (and relevant!) to read.
Oct 09, 2008
@sarahcrisman Thanks for the plug, babe. I really need to update my blog again soon, but I actually have work cookin' - so naturally that comes first. I have some very exciting news to share with you all very soon, though. Stay tuned! :)
Oct 09, 2008
@jasongoldberg Thanks. I'm certainly not casting stones here as I think Socialmedian is a great tool. The fact is that there will always be destination sites to go for specific types of content, but the value here is the dialouge around the news. Getting people to come here for discussion rather then keeping the conversation localized to those sites will be your challenge. Any thoughts about ways in which to bring the dialog here or at least make it visible here? Give the variety of content management systems, i suspect this is an ugly suggestion, but one I'm sure you've considered.
Oct 09, 2008
Not knocking SM at all - everyone should know i'm a big supporter - just a bit confused to be asked to follow poeple for no real reason. Smacks of a numbers game and i get enough of that on other networks ;)
And no, I wasn't complaining that I wasn't on the lists LOL
Oct 09, 2008
@NikkiPilkington lol, you're at the top of the list of people everyone needs to follow! this was just intended to be a list of people that many folks didn't realize were on socialmedian yet.
Oct 09, 2008
@gregscher you are 100% correct. The value of this sort of offering is in the community and the quality of the conversation. Our entire focus right now is on fostering the dialogue.
Oct 09, 2008
See, now I want to change my 'dislike' to a 'ok, well maybe i don't 100% like but I get it a bit more now' and I can't .... ;)
Oct 09, 2008
@svartling hey, always let us know when you don't like or don't agree. that's what this is all about. that's also why we have a dislike button in addition to a like button. it's the two-way dialogue that makes this work in many ways.
Oct 09, 2008
@NikkiPilkington @Adgenius @louisgray What @Jasongoldberg has achieved here is that I'm now following the three of you - never having followed anyone before :) I appreciate real information, real help for my business and blunt, informed opinions - not simply talk for talk's sake.
Oct 09, 2008
I got some fancy email saying "Jason Goldberg included you in the story, "Some new people you should follow on soc...". " but i don't see myself anywhere. That's not a question driven out of vanity :) , just wondering why i got the mail.... @jasongoldberg
Oct 09, 2008
@jasongoldberg Thank you for the information and the discussion! It is always good to know new people. I am usually storefront type of guy! (Only see people passing by my windows or walk in through my doors!)
Oct 09, 2008
@Greghollingsworth same here and now my replies are showing up on my facebook as a post. which is a bit irritating. why i was included in this, not sure,since none of us are on the list itself.
Oct 09, 2008
@greghollingsworth @jeffdoug ah, you picked up on one of my favorite new features. Just include @username for any socialmedian user and it will draw them into the discussion. Like I just did here with @christiananderson
Oct 09, 2008
@jasongoldberg except in this case, I don't see where you drew me in before your reply? Am I missing something ?
Oct 09, 2008
@jasongoldberg wow, so got deleted, never re-added, then an email to rub it in ;) maybe another email "you just got nuked" would work? on a more serious note, i do like the fact that it labels it a reply vs. a include based on where you park their name
Oct 09, 2008
@jasongoldberg this is a great feature. It did draw me into the conversation, which i guess was the point. socialmedian is exploding. tons of new people here. great interaction
Oct 09, 2008
@jasongoldberg whew! I thought my name was being taken in vain. Good to know I was just deleted.
Oct 09, 2008
@Renaissancechambara is my favorite UK social media / digital marketing / PR consultant, office ninja and merry prankster
Oct 14, 2008
After 25+ e-mails ... ugh ... I just found my SocialMedian pssword ... Duck!
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