One part of that Nightline report I can’t get out of my head… It’s how Ben Popken Consumerist.com refers to companies that monitor blogs without interacting… “ghosting.” Dear WillVideoForFood reader. Are you a ghost?
P.S. Ben- would you please invite me to post on Consumerist so I can stop ghosting your blog? I’ve been biting my tongue for long enough!
Okay first check out this top-10 list of social-media marketing fails and wins. I just happened to find the Canadian article titled “Top 10 social media hits and misse in 2010,” and my own video hiding in it. Can you find it? Yeah that’s me as the press secretary for Tony Hayward. The accent is fake….
Per my post in December, I finally received and approved my proof of the “Best of Nalts: Volume 1” DVD. So now you can buy 71 minutes of Nalts videos (with 29 videos) on CreateSpace.com by clicking here. I have nearly “comedic” 600 videos online for free, but I think these are the best ones…
The Onion Radio news has a message for folks suffering from depression. Seems depression effects “losers” more than “normal” people. Stick around and enjoy Taco Bell’s morning after solution.
I spoke yesterday with Joe Chapuis yeseterday who is a frequent commenter on WillVideoForFood.com. He’s writing an article on how to make money on online video, so if you have thoughts reach out to him. I don’t want to post his e-mail here but maybe he will. Joe runs a site called “WebVideoZone” that offers…
When I saw a YouTube house ad for “how to upload a video,” I had written a scathing blog review (in my head at least) before the video even loaded. Then I was in for a surprise. It was funny, edgy, self depricating, and informative. I’m unable to criticize it. It basically taught people how…
Combine tech startups, Scoble (the Paul Revere of tech revolution), and a video camera. What do you get? Nearly two dozen videos of various tech startups. Stop Eating Shit, and check out Fooducate. Inspired by the discovery of glow-in-the-dark yogurt containing carcinogen. Send your pictures quickly to multiple social-media platforms via Photogram, an alternative to Instagram…
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Monitoring blogs is the only way to get familiar with what individual bloggers say.
I have been ‘ghosting*’ many a blog over the last 5 years and there are about 19,800 people ‘ghosting’ my political blog every day! This is based on an estimate that only 10% of my readers actually comment. What am I going to do?! I have been ‘ghosted’ over and over again!
*for ‘ghosting’ read ‘reading’ throughout.
I must be old-school. I call it ‘lurking.’ ANd now with my own blog, I get lurked all the time. Even by my own family.
And since I’ve posted all of two times here, have I been de-lurked (or is it de-ghosted)?
Since the WVFF post-to-read ratio is .000023… both of you qualify as full-fledged participants.
I see monitoring blogs and ghosting as different. Monitoring is learning about your customers with interest. Ghosting is watching them and never engaging.
And I’m hoping that (with the help of people like Adriana) companies realize that… in the age of consumer-generated media… the best companies will go beyond ghosting.