Comments on: Iron Hand, Velvet Glove http://www.waxingunlyrical.com/2009/06/29/iron-hand-velvet-glove/ from corporate codswallop to community cool Fri, 10 Feb 2012 23:29:05 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Shonali Burke http://www.waxingunlyrical.com/2009/06/29/iron-hand-velvet-glove/#comment-711 Shonali Burke Tue, 08 Sep 2009 19:24:32 +0000 http://www.waxingunlyrical.com/?p=628#comment-711 Thanks for your input, Frank! Thanks for your input, Frank!

]]> By: frank http://www.waxingunlyrical.com/2009/06/29/iron-hand-velvet-glove/#comment-710 frank Mon, 07 Sep 2009 00:16:16 +0000 http://www.waxingunlyrical.com/?p=628#comment-710 Very interesting idea. I like "guidelines" or "suggestions", but telling people to NOT participate in social media is a bit overboard in my opinion. For a lot of people that's part of attending a conference these days. It enriches the experience through an added layer of participation and engagement. Sometimes people go to far so I do agree with asking people to be adult, professional and courteous. That should be obvious, but some people just don't get it or get off on causing conflict. http://twitter.com/franswaa Very interesting idea. I like “guidelines” or “suggestions”, but telling people to NOT participate in social media is a bit overboard in my opinion. For a lot of people that’s part of attending a conference these days. It enriches the experience through an added layer of participation and engagement.

Sometimes people go to far so I do agree with asking people to be adult, professional and courteous. That should be obvious, but some people just don’t get it or get off on causing conflict.

http://twitter.com/franswaa

]]> By: Shonali Burke http://www.waxingunlyrical.com/2009/06/29/iron-hand-velvet-glove/#comment-581 Shonali Burke Fri, 24 Jul 2009 18:54:50 +0000 http://www.waxingunlyrical.com/?p=628#comment-581 Thanks for your comment, Jim. I don't think anyone minds guidelines - and clearly, since you gave attendees a hashtag to use, as Gail and Shashi pointed out, you intended them to use it. What I was commenting on was the way they came across. If you're telling people it's "impossible" for them to concentrate or what can/cannot be distilled into 140 characters... well, they're going to try to prove you wrong, bozos or not. Sometimes it's not what you say, but how you say it. Again, thanks for commenting. I really appreciate having Bulldog's perspective. Thanks for your comment, Jim. I don’t think anyone minds guidelines – and clearly, since you gave attendees a hashtag to use, as Gail and Shashi pointed out, you intended them to use it. What I was commenting on was the way they came across. If you’re telling people it’s “impossible” for them to concentrate or what can/cannot be distilled into 140 characters… well, they’re going to try to prove you wrong, bozos or not. Sometimes it’s not what you say, but how you say it.

Again, thanks for commenting. I really appreciate having Bulldog’s perspective.

]]> By: Jim Sinkinson http://www.waxingunlyrical.com/2009/06/29/iron-hand-velvet-glove/#comment-564 Jim Sinkinson Mon, 20 Jul 2009 22:23:01 +0000 http://www.waxingunlyrical.com/?p=628#comment-564 Shonali and all: When you go to a theater, they ask you to turn off your cellphone as a courtesy. They don't dictate that you do it, they ask you to use good sense and consideration. Bulldog Reporter's social media guidelines were just that---guidelines. We had learned of other conferences in which denigrating personal (outright rude) comments were being made about panelists and another in which snide (unkind, superficial and premature) comments were being made about speakers' positions even as the speakers were trying to clarify them. Some speakers got very angry, friendships were lost and some tweeters' reputations were damaged because of it. Read our guidelines again. Bulldog Reporter never tried to dictate social media behavior. We only suggested that people consider what could go wrong, and we suggested guidelines that might prevent this. We realize that with social media, just as in movie theaters, some people are determined to be bozos, and there's little that can be done about it. Shonali and all: When you go to a theater, they ask you to turn off your cellphone as a courtesy. They don’t dictate that you do it, they ask you to use good sense and consideration. Bulldog Reporter’s social media guidelines were just that—guidelines. We had learned of other conferences in which denigrating personal (outright rude) comments were being made about panelists and another in which snide (unkind, superficial and premature) comments were being made about speakers’ positions even as the speakers were trying to clarify them. Some speakers got very angry, friendships were lost and some tweeters’ reputations were damaged because of it. Read our guidelines again. Bulldog Reporter never tried to dictate social media behavior. We only suggested that people consider what could go wrong, and we suggested guidelines that might prevent this. We realize that with social media, just as in movie theaters, some people are determined to be bozos, and there’s little that can be done about it.

]]> By: Shonali Burke http://www.waxingunlyrical.com/2009/06/29/iron-hand-velvet-glove/#comment-557 Shonali Burke Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:17:28 +0000 http://www.waxingunlyrical.com/?p=628#comment-557 Thanks, all, for your comments! Thanks, all, for your comments!

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