Joanna, your sentiment is resonating with me today - I too am feeling your pain around "conversations", as if that is the main goal. You summarize well when you state "Social media only presents a new medium or enabler" for conversations.
What's more elusive - and I continue to seek - is the purpose and result of those conversations - what is done with them? How do we act differently because of them? Those are the examples that are powerful.
Within the LIS Career Options subgroup of the American Library Association group on LinkedIn, there have been several good, short conversations recently - participants pooling together their expertise, advice and perspective to help answer real questions. Just one example of a conversation leading somewhere :)
It may be that we are viewing conversations online differently than in-person conversations. In-person conversations stay alive as long as they need to, and (sometimes mercifully) die when the conversation is over. This may be a good practice to adapt to the online conversation as well.
These days there is hardly a moment that goes by without the mention of capturing the ‘conversations’ via social media tools. Everyone (especially organisations) are talking about ‘joining the conversation’ or ‘listening to conversation’. So what?
Conversation is hardly new. Social media only presents a new ...
Joanna Ptolomey
07/07/10 13:49
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Re: Conversations that lead somewhere please
Joanna, your sentiment is resonating with me today - I too am feeling your pain around "conversations", as if that is the main goal. You summarize well when you state "Social media only presents a new medium or enabler" for conversations.
I too believe that we need to start treating 'online conversations' similar to 'real life' conversations - we need to take action or as you say 'let them die'. Just because conversations are online does not mean that we need to curate, manage or bake them together - ...
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