August 12, 2009

08.12.09: One Voice, Many Ears

Today I participated in a panel on social media. At this panel, which was geared to non-profits, we heard a great many questions, most of which revealed their bias at the outset. Still others tipped their hand with question that showed where they were trying to find the answers that they perhaps wanted to hear.

More interesting though was some of the post-event feedback where I heard groups congratulating themselves for inaction, for hesitancy, and in effect, of self-actualizing indecision(s). This perspective is not relegated to the non-profit world, by any means, but when I heard this I was shocked and said to myself, "how could they possibly have heard that they fit this model and that they were strategically aligned?" Especially since these organizations would fail any social media sniff test out there and here they were giving themselves A's.

Quite an evolving world we live in.

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