Comments on: Ghost Blogging and Authenticity http://www.seanbohan.com/2008/12/04/ghost-blogging-and-authenticity-3/ Entrepreneur, Founder, Renaissance Caveman, Heretic, Idea Guy, Crafter of Digital Stuff Thu, 13 Aug 2009 19:25:03 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Sean http://www.seanbohan.com/2008/12/04/ghost-blogging-and-authenticity-3/comment-page-1/#comment-93496 Sean Thu, 11 Dec 2008 01:26:12 +0000 http://www.seanbohan.com/2008/12/04/ghost-blogging-and-authenticity-3/#comment-93496 David - your original post started the ball rolling. Its been a pet peeve of mine for a while. Dean - thankyou for adding "flackery" to my vocabulary... I will now overuse it and abuse it in multiple decks :) Susan - so true... the problem is a lot of clients are willing to buy the snake oil, and in a lot of cases dont have the context for WHY they should do it right. The other day I saw a twitter from a friend about suggestions for a client who questioned blogging after seeing a report that only 16% of users trust corporate blogs. Ghost blogging, flackery, and the users highly tuned BS meters all come to mind :) David – your original post started the ball rolling. Its been a pet peeve of mine for a while.

Dean – thankyou for adding “flackery” to my vocabulary… I will now overuse it and abuse it in multiple decks :)

Susan – so true… the problem is a lot of clients are willing to buy the snake oil, and in a lot of cases dont have the context for WHY they should do it right. The other day I saw a twitter from a friend about suggestions for a client who questioned blogging after seeing a report that only 16% of users trust corporate blogs. Ghost blogging, flackery, and the users highly tuned BS meters all come to mind :)

]]> By: Susan/Unique Business Opportunity http://www.seanbohan.com/2008/12/04/ghost-blogging-and-authenticity-3/comment-page-1/#comment-93479 Susan/Unique Business Opportunity Thu, 11 Dec 2008 00:19:13 +0000 http://www.seanbohan.com/2008/12/04/ghost-blogging-and-authenticity-3/#comment-93479 Call me crazy, but isn't that a little like asking someone to go to the party for you? Call me crazy, but isn’t that a little like asking someone to go to the party for you?

]]> By: Dean Landsman http://www.seanbohan.com/2008/12/04/ghost-blogging-and-authenticity-3/comment-page-1/#comment-93388 Dean Landsman Sat, 06 Dec 2008 19:50:47 +0000 http://www.seanbohan.com/2008/12/04/ghost-blogging-and-authenticity-3/#comment-93388 A blight upon the connected community is the many PR (and other such) shops who see online social engagement and communication as an open platform for flackery. Getting The Message Out can be a critical, beneficial and necessary tactic. But when it is a play for plpay's sake, and done en masse, it loses much of the effectiveness. And, for me, all of the charm. This is not to dismiss PR per se, but the many PR firms that seem to have discovered (or, in one case, actually have gone backwards in time and invented) blogging and now short message social media, are overcrowding certain areas of the space with either misplaced client flackery, or self-flackery, which is way over the edge. There is this one ghost writer I like, though. Very friendly posts. Casper something . . . A blight upon the connected community is the many PR (and other such) shops who see online social engagement and communication as an open platform for flackery. Getting The Message Out can be a critical, beneficial and necessary tactic. But when it is a play for plpay’s sake, and done en masse, it loses much of the effectiveness. And, for me, all of the charm. This is not to dismiss PR per se, but the many PR firms that seem to have discovered (or, in one case, actually have gone backwards in time and invented) blogging and now short message social media, are overcrowding certain areas of the space with either misplaced client flackery, or self-flackery, which is way over the edge.

There is this one ghost writer I like, though. Very friendly posts. Casper something . . .

]]> By: David Mullen http://www.seanbohan.com/2008/12/04/ghost-blogging-and-authenticity-3/comment-page-1/#comment-93357 David Mullen Thu, 04 Dec 2008 04:59:50 +0000 http://www.seanbohan.com/2008/12/04/ghost-blogging-and-authenticity-3/#comment-93357 Sean - thanks for extending the conversation here on your space. It's a topic that needs addressing. Like the post title insinuates, I'm all for ghosts, but only the cute rug rat versions that ring my doorbell on Halloween and say "trick or treat." Ghosts have no place in this space. Sean – thanks for extending the conversation here on your space. It’s a topic that needs addressing. Like the post title insinuates, I’m all for ghosts, but only the cute rug rat versions that ring my doorbell on Halloween and say “trick or treat.” Ghosts have no place in this space.

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