DISQUS

Come Together: Getting interested, getting passionate and getting to know YOU

  • Neerav · 1 year ago
    hear hear Scott, its true that there's "really no such thing as a boring subject", I'm trying to train myself to be a good listener because its a skill that I've seen other people use to get people to open up and talk about fascinating aspects of themselves eg: hobbies, interests etc etc that no one could have guessed
  • Zac Martin · 1 year ago
    The "social" in Social Media?

    Good to see you blogging, Scott. =)
  • Julian Cole · 1 year ago
    Having been following you around for the past week, I have to say that it is also a talent unlocking what people are passionate about. And you definitely have that talent. You are like an Andrew Denton with a Fro.
  • Scott · 1 year ago
    Contrary to what many people may think, I'm always trying to shut up and listen more Neerav. You're absolutely right - it's a skill. The good news is, like all skills, we can train ourselves to be better at it.

    I've been looking around for some helpful resources on this and other continuous personal development (CPD) goals. I even keep a folder in my Firefox bookmarks of all CPD references.

    The best summary I've come across is:

    http://www.43folders.com/2006/07/10/listening

    It's a great starting point full of useful advice. My personal favourite?

    "That’s why it’s so important to be open to learning from anyone that you talk to…"
  • Scott · 1 year ago
    Hey Zac - thanks for the welcome.

    You might argue that all media has the potential to be social, to the extent that it is communicated between people and used as a currency between humans.

    This would make the term 'social media' sort of pointless in a tautological way. This is the point that Steve Rubel made over two years ago [Now can we please kill the phrase 'social media'] and it's the point that Julian emphasised in a recent post [All media is social media, the First Australians proves this!].

    I'd probably argue that the term 'social media' is actually a means by which a certain group of knowledge workers (marketers, PR practitioners etc) define themselves as a community. The term itself is semantically pretty meaningless in context, but socially it's important.
  • Scott · 1 year ago
    "You are like an Andrew Denton with a Fro."


    Hahaha - that is genius! The only thing is, Andrew Denton used to have a fro! Check it out:

    <img src="http://www.abccontentsales.com.au/image/bastard.jpg"></img>
  • Stan Lee · 1 year ago
    Hey Scott.

    I'm twittering.

    You're blogging.

    Have we changed place with each other without us realising it?
  • Scott · 1 year ago
    Hey Stan Lee - having read your post on entering the Twitterverse, if you're not going to be wearing unicorn T-Shirts, does this mean that you're also not going to be cultivating a healthy fro?
  • Mike Hickinbotham · 1 year ago
    Great blog
  • Jye Smith · 1 year ago
    Welcome to the dark side. Congrats mate. Great post.
  • Gavin Heaton · 1 year ago
    What a social butterfly! Nice to see you putting more than a dozen words together again!
  • Scott · 1 year ago
    Mick - cheers for the comment. If brevity is the soul of wit then you must be a very funny man :-)

    Jye - thanks for the welcome to the dark side. I can already tell that blogging has the potential to become a very intensive 'hobby', so at some point I'll blog about the experience of managing my own editorial schedule across this blog, the three blogs for the Sports Hydrant and my commitments to other blogs.

    The good news is the more time spent blogging in general, the more chance that you will actually get some content out of me for TMB!

    Gavin - top of the morning to you I think if you ask most people they'd agree I'm not normally short of a few dozen words ;-)

    The aim here is to keep it concise whenever possible, but I won't go out of my way to avoid the odd longer, more reflective piece. Just depends on the subject and how much time I allow myself for editing.
  • Kate Richardson · 1 year ago
    I admire your energy as just reading this post tired me out!

    Listening is one of the most underrated.

    Not just an kind of listening. But active listening. The kind where you're not just listening for a break in the conversation so you can get a word in. But where you're 'listening for the other person' and asking questions for them, rather than you.

    And that sounds very much like your week.
  • Halans · 1 year ago
    Did I get the back of your head there? Sorry I didn't get the front then!

    Ah blogging, that's soo '90s...