Come Together - Latest Comments in Getting to know YOU

Re: Getting to know YOU

JJ Halans — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 01:55:42 -0000

Did I get the back of your head there? Sorry I didn't get the front then!

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

Re: Getting to know YOU

Kate Richardson — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 19:42:03 -0000

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.

Re: Getting to know YOU

Scott Drummond — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 17:07:39 -0000

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.

Re: Getting to know YOU

Gavin Heaton — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 17:03:13 -0000

What a social butterfly! Nice to see you putting more than a dozen words together again!

Re: Getting to know YOU

Jye Smith — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 16:53:52 -0000

Welcome to the dark side. Congrats mate. Great post.

Re: Getting to know YOU

Mike Hickinbotham — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 16:39:07 -0000

Great blog

Re: Getting to know YOU

Scott Drummond — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 15:11:19 -0000

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?

Re: Getting to know YOU

Stan Lee — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 08:07:19 -0000

Hey Scott.

I'm twittering.

You're blogging.

Have we changed place with each other without us realising it?

Re: Getting to know YOU

Scott Drummond — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 07:20:02 -0000

"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:

Re: Getting to know YOU

Scott Drummond — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 07:12:32 -0000

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.

Re: Getting to know YOU

Scott Drummond — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 06:50:10 -0000

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/20...

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…"

Re: Getting to know YOU

Julian Cole — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 06:40:49 -0000

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.

Re: Getting to know YOU

Zac Martin — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 06:39:48 -0000

The "social" in Social Media?

Good to see you blogging, Scott. =)

Re: Getting to know YOU

Neerav — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 06:35:11 -0000

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