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Re: Will Blogging and Social Media Be Mainstream?

richardstacy — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 09:13:37 -0000

Social media will become mainstream in two ways. First, people will become familiar to using social networks in the workplace - which will make them more inclined to build or participate in networks in other aspects of their lives. Second - when it becomes easy to be a "social media citizen". At the moment it is way too hard and geeky (something the geeks like) but when someone comes up with one tool that will allow you to publish information (to wherever), to receive information (from whatever source) and manage your membership of networks (however many you are a member of), then the space will become available to normal people. (see http://preview.tinyurl.com/5m9sjt)

Re: Will Blogging and Social Media Be Mainstream?

David Law — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 06:45:08 -0000

I think things like major news outlets putting bookmarking buttons on their stories will slowly help to change this and make social media more mainstream.

It makes you think, if it is just a small selection of influencers that are actually being pro-active on social media, and the rest of us are merely passively consuming, how far away have we in fact moved from the traditional media model of one-to-many communication?

Re: Will Blogging and Social Media Be Mainstream?

NV — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 19:08:45 -0000

Voracious appetite for researched and intellectual information = not mainstream.