Comments on: Monkeys and Bloggers and Tribes (oh, my!) http://www.remarkable-communication.com/monkeys-and-bloggers-and-tribes-oh-my/ Wed, 08 Sep 2010 09:55:47 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc hourly 1 By: 5 Things Sesame Street Can Teach You About Breakthrough Blogging | Copyblogger http://www.remarkable-communication.com/monkeys-and-bloggers-and-tribes-oh-my/comment-page-1/#comment-2462 5 Things Sesame Street Can Teach You About Breakthrough Blogging | Copyblogger Fri, 12 Jun 2009 14:49:47 +0000 http://www.remarkable-communication.com/monkeys-and-bloggers-and-tribes-oh-my/#comment-2462 [...] and great characters create empathy, emotional involvement, intense interest, and even a sense of belonging. When we watch, we feel that Sesame Street is our [...]

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]]> By: Jay Ramirez http://www.remarkable-communication.com/monkeys-and-bloggers-and-tribes-oh-my/comment-page-1/#comment-292 Jay Ramirez Wed, 14 May 2008 09:23:06 +0000 http://www.remarkable-communication.com/monkeys-and-bloggers-and-tribes-oh-my/#comment-292 <p>Great post Sonia. I think that's the draw of social media, the ability to create our own community that isn't bound by geography, class, or other typical demographics. I think over the last 50 years we've moved from community as neighborhood, to community as job, to now community as online networks.</p> <p>Cheers</p> Great post Sonia. I think that’s the draw of social media, the ability to create our own community that isn’t bound by geography, class, or other typical demographics. I think over the last 50 years we’ve moved from community as neighborhood, to community as job, to now community as online networks.

Cheers

]]> By: Sonia Simone http://www.remarkable-communication.com/monkeys-and-bloggers-and-tribes-oh-my/comment-page-1/#comment-291 Sonia Simone Sun, 11 May 2008 21:13:13 +0000 http://www.remarkable-communication.com/monkeys-and-bloggers-and-tribes-oh-my/#comment-291 <p>Dawud, that was great, wasn't it? Made me glad to have come in a little earlier than I strictly had to. (To bring the rest up to speed, Dawud & Chris Garrett and I had a wonderful afternoon wandering around looking for a lunch spot, and finding a little place that was just right.) </p> <p>Conferences are great, but there's usually too little time to just hang out a few at a time. I had a fantastic coffee with Communicatrix, as well. </p> Dawud, that was great, wasn’t it? Made me glad to have come in a little earlier than I strictly had to. (To bring the rest up to speed, Dawud & Chris Garrett and I had a wonderful afternoon wandering around looking for a lunch spot, and finding a little place that was just right.)

Conferences are great, but there’s usually too little time to just hang out a few at a time. I had a fantastic coffee with Communicatrix, as well.

]]> By: Dawud Miracle http://www.remarkable-communication.com/monkeys-and-bloggers-and-tribes-oh-my/comment-page-1/#comment-290 Dawud Miracle Sat, 10 May 2008 11:58:55 +0000 http://www.remarkable-communication.com/monkeys-and-bloggers-and-tribes-oh-my/#comment-290 <p>"If your customers can form a tribe around your product or service (or church or nonprofit or whatever your particular gig might be), you win."</p> <p>Yes, true, without a doubt love it. This is why I find the relationship to be so important. It's not about business, marketing or money. It's about relationships. Businesses get built because of the relationships they build with their audience and their peers. Sure, there's other factors as well. But, especially for small business owners, making the strategy about relationships will at least offer a chance for success. The rest is about communications and sweat.</p> <p>And, I can over simplify things from time to time.</p> <p>Really enjoyed hanging out Friday by the way. Wish I had that sort of quality time with everyone. Wasn't Carmine's great?</p> “If your customers can form a tribe around your product or service (or church or nonprofit or whatever your particular gig might be), you win.”

Yes, true, without a doubt love it. This is why I find the relationship to be so important. It’s not about business, marketing or money. It’s about relationships. Businesses get built because of the relationships they build with their audience and their peers. Sure, there’s other factors as well. But, especially for small business owners, making the strategy about relationships will at least offer a chance for success. The rest is about communications and sweat.

And, I can over simplify things from time to time.

Really enjoyed hanging out Friday by the way. Wish I had that sort of quality time with everyone. Wasn’t Carmine’s great?

]]> By: David | beplayful http://www.remarkable-communication.com/monkeys-and-bloggers-and-tribes-oh-my/comment-page-1/#comment-289 David | beplayful Sat, 10 May 2008 07:25:42 +0000 http://www.remarkable-communication.com/monkeys-and-bloggers-and-tribes-oh-my/#comment-289 <p>Hey Sonia,</p> <p>I've just been monkeying around the blogosphere and happened to swing across your site.</p> <p>Your observations on tribes are brilliant - there's nothing more frustrating than being excluded from the 'in' group, yet it also feels great to be in that group. </p> <p>Yet community is so important too...</p> <p>You've set me off thinking.</p> Hey Sonia,

I’ve just been monkeying around the blogosphere and happened to swing across your site.

Your observations on tribes are brilliant – there’s nothing more frustrating than being excluded from the ‘in’ group, yet it also feels great to be in that group.

Yet community is so important too…

You’ve set me off thinking.

]]> By: GirlPie http://www.remarkable-communication.com/monkeys-and-bloggers-and-tribes-oh-my/comment-page-1/#comment-288 GirlPie Wed, 07 May 2008 11:24:39 +0000 http://www.remarkable-communication.com/monkeys-and-bloggers-and-tribes-oh-my/#comment-288 <p>Many of the great bloggers posting from SOBcon walked the fine line of making a visitor like me feel included (or the other excellent way to make me feel welcome without excluding anyone was the video you guys did and IttyBiz posted -- !) </p> <p>You're walkin' the talk, and it doesn't go unnoticed by us those of us who are neither insiders nor outsiders -- just neighbors. <br /> Thanks.</p> Many of the great bloggers posting from SOBcon walked the fine line of making a visitor like me feel included (or the other excellent way to make me feel welcome without excluding anyone was the video you guys did and IttyBiz posted — !)

You’re walkin’ the talk, and it doesn’t go unnoticed by us those of us who are neither insiders nor outsiders — just neighbors.
Thanks.

]]> By: Jared Goralnick http://www.remarkable-communication.com/monkeys-and-bloggers-and-tribes-oh-my/comment-page-1/#comment-287 Jared Goralnick Tue, 06 May 2008 13:59:37 +0000 http://www.remarkable-communication.com/monkeys-and-bloggers-and-tribes-oh-my/#comment-287 <p>It was great to meet you at SOB Con. It's interesting to meet the bloggers I've been collaborating with / following for a while: on the one hand, I feel there's a little clique amongst us, but on the other it reminds me that bloggers are just like everyone else (only a bit more verbose).</p> <p>As my blog grows, it's interesting to feel the difference between random commenters and those who I've known in the real world. It's just good to be cognizant of all this stuff so that the mentality never becomes US and THEM--or inside vs outside the tribe.</p> It was great to meet you at SOB Con. It’s interesting to meet the bloggers I’ve been collaborating with / following for a while: on the one hand, I feel there’s a little clique amongst us, but on the other it reminds me that bloggers are just like everyone else (only a bit more verbose).

As my blog grows, it’s interesting to feel the difference between random commenters and those who I’ve known in the real world. It’s just good to be cognizant of all this stuff so that the mentality never becomes US and THEM–or inside vs outside the tribe.

]]> By: Janice C Cartier http://www.remarkable-communication.com/monkeys-and-bloggers-and-tribes-oh-my/comment-page-1/#comment-286 Janice C Cartier Tue, 06 May 2008 11:00:07 +0000 http://www.remarkable-communication.com/monkeys-and-bloggers-and-tribes-oh-my/#comment-286 <p>SOBcon tribal ripple is palpable.. :) Big good stuff. Sympathetic monkey dance here.....:)</p> SOBcon tribal ripple is palpable.. :) Big good stuff. Sympathetic monkey dance here…..:)

]]> By: bob hoffman http://www.remarkable-communication.com/monkeys-and-bloggers-and-tribes-oh-my/comment-page-1/#comment-285 bob hoffman Tue, 06 May 2008 10:50:12 +0000 http://www.remarkable-communication.com/monkeys-and-bloggers-and-tribes-oh-my/#comment-285 <p>Communities and tribes are also dangerous, particularly in business. They tend to talk to each other too much, lose track of the outside world, think alike, and believe everyone is like them. If you're a marketer, this can be fatal. </p> Communities and tribes are also dangerous, particularly in business. They tend to talk to each other too much, lose track of the outside world, think alike, and believe everyone is like them. If you’re a marketer, this can be fatal.

]]> By: Easton Ellsworth http://www.remarkable-communication.com/monkeys-and-bloggers-and-tribes-oh-my/comment-page-1/#comment-284 Easton Ellsworth Tue, 06 May 2008 07:17:59 +0000 http://www.remarkable-communication.com/monkeys-and-bloggers-and-tribes-oh-my/#comment-284 <p>"If you build a community for any reason, you owe it to them to figure out how you will keep the infrastucture going. And you owe it to yourself to figure out--early--who you'll bring in and who you will keep out."</p> <p>Thanks for that Sonia - I'll be chewing on it for a while.</p> <p>And it was great to meet you at SOBCon08!</p> “If you build a community for any reason, you owe it to them to figure out how you will keep the infrastucture going. And you owe it to yourself to figure out–early–who you’ll bring in and who you will keep out.”

Thanks for that Sonia – I’ll be chewing on it for a while.

And it was great to meet you at SOBCon08!

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