Disruptive Conversations

You know, I was going to write a longer post about how "trust" is important online... about how great a writer and friend Chris Brogan is... how cool Julien Smith is...

I was going to write all that.

But...

I've been (and continue to be) a wee bit busy... Shel already wrote an excellent piece about how PR and marketing folks have a critical role in building trust... and well... here we are at the end of the week.

So let's keep it simple...

Buy "Trust Agents"!

I'll note that I'm doing something here that I don't think I've ever done in the 9.5 years I've been blogging... recommending a book without reading it. That's new for me. But this is probably one of the rare exceptions I'll make... you see, Chris is an excellent writer. He's a storyteller. He's an explainer... an evangelist... and a friend from years back.

I've also had friends who have read it tell me that it's good. I trust them. :-)

My copy purchased from Amazon is in the mail... I'm looking forward to reading it...

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A very cool video called "Social Media Revolution" has been making the rounds of social networks. In the spirit of some of the "Did you know" videos out there comes this compilation of of stats around social media:

The sources of the statistics are available on the Socialnomics blog.

Cool stuff.

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UPDATE: CNN's post now includes this text:

UPDATE (Friday): A few hours after Palin changed her Twitter account name, she switched it back to @AKGovSarahPalin. @SarahPalinUSA is now a new separate account altogether. CNN e-mailed a Palin representative seeking comment, but has not yet heard back.

So apparently the screenshot was in fact legit, only that the account was later changed back between the time CNN started writing and then published their post.

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Want to know why people don't "trust" the mainstream media? Here's a classic example pointed out by C.C. Chapman (and he later posted a screenshot). In his CNN article, Eric Huhn writes about how Sarah Palin has changed her Twitter ID from AKGovSarahPalin to SarahPalinUSA and accompanies it with a "screenshot" of the page:

Here's the problem:

It's a fake.

Here is Palin's existing AKGovSarahPalin page, that looks basically like the one pictured:

Here is her (purported) new SarahPalinUSA page:

Oops.

Leaving aside the issue of "Is the SarahPalinUSA page really from Sarah Palin or is from someone else pulling a really good joke right now?", the larger question is:

Why did CNN feel they needed to alter the screenshot?

I mean... did they seriously think people wouldn't look?

Bizarre.

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