Best Engaging Communities: Recent Comments

Comment on 5 tips to introduce yourself in a positive manner and sell your strengths

Mukund Mohan — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 00:43:30 GMT

Hmm
That makes a lot more sense and will probably put them at ease also Kare. Let me try this next time and let you know about the results.

Thanks so much for the suggestion.

Comment on 5 tips to introduce yourself in a positive manner and sell your strengths

Kare Anderson — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 00:42:11 GMT

Mukund,
Alternatively,what if you began by

• suggesting that you wanted to find the best way to support their growth,
with the right kind of funding,

• asking her/them what they thought were the most-needed next steps,

• indicating, up-front that you could then address those things most directly

• in describing your background and resources.

This
1. You
2. Us
3. Me
approach pulls in the other person(s) and enables them and you to most quickly find the "sweet spot" of mutual benefit.

This 3-step approach to connecting to collaborate was described in a book I wrote some years ago, called Getting What You Want (ironically not the title I wanted)

another fan of your ideas
humbly
Kare
movingfrommetowe.com

Comment on The importance of Discipline and Drive

Mukund Mohan — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 00:58:24 GMT

Very good point Chris. Understanding core strengths is absolutely important, but I think common folks can achieve greatness with drive and discipline. Uncommon or "talented" folks achieve it faster or with lesser effort is what I think.

Comment on The importance of Discipline and Drive

Chris — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 00:56:53 GMT

Hi Mukund,

Agree on drive and discipline; but those things alone cannot bring success...using your Michael Phelps example (and certainly recognizing drive and discipline as two key factors in his success)...

How about realizing your strengths and leveraging your natural abilities? Michael Phelps is nearly a genetic freak of nature. His body is made to swim. No amount of drive or discipline would ever make him a wold-class horse jockey or coxswain...

I think more important than either drive or discipline is the is the ability to realize your potential for success (and failure) in a given endeavor. Otherwise...drive and discipline might be all for naught.

Not to say you hadn't considered, but popped into my mind so I thought I'd share.

Comment on What I learned from Jon Stewart about blogging & liveblogging

Nathan Ketsdever — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 23:52:19 GMT

I tend to agree with you. Alternatively, I think engaging people in a shared interest chat room on a hosted site like Tech President did for at least one of the live debates or like Huff Po did on Campfire for the YouTube presidential debates there is a rather interesting community effect. Realize, these were pretty much all democrats and so were united in purpose on some level.

I also think some people are incredibly skilled at the art of grabbing an idea or a nugget of info from a speech or presentation that really adds value via liveblogging.

Comment on What I learned from Jon Stewart about blogging & liveblogging

Kare Anderson — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 15:30:22 GMT

So am not alone on this - thank you.I felt the same way as people have sent me emails, indicating they want to twitter. My favorite quotes at this DNC are from the new, reluctant "dean" of journalism have been from JS. Ben Stein also wrote in this Sunday's NYT re letting go of tech to connect

Comment on What I learned from Jon Stewart about blogging & liveblogging

Lois Kelly — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 08:18:38 GMT

Great post, Makund.Especially like the analogy of liveblogging to tv news. To me Twitter and the like are water cooler conversations. Good blog posts are like the best Op-Ed articles -- or Daily Show skits: they have a point of view, make a case, and make you think. I'll take the latter over the former, but enjoy both for different reasons.
Lois

Comment on Real world example of blog impact

Arunk — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 15:40:45 GMT

I am impressed - but hope you are not a marked man :)

BTW, "legitimate ID" - is there (still) the possibility of that being an oxymoron there?

Comment on Why newspapers in India will continue to rise and grow unlike the US

manuscrypts — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 05:30:01 GMT

ah, now thats unfair... i started out with the premise (to quote myself, i don't really do that, but..) "While, with a 4.5% penetration, newspapers aren’t exactly on a ‘near-death spiral’ in India, I believe it still might be just a matter of ‘when’ rather than ‘if’." doesn't 15 years plus come under 'when'?
also, while circulation is showing growth (not great %), readership has been dipping.. eg. in Karnataka, out of all the dailies - eng and vernacular, only one showed a + growth - kannada prabha (figures from irs 2008 round 1)..
lastly, would have loved it if you'd kept it as a debate/counterpoint rather than extrapolating my view to my smoking habits.. but yes, its a free country, and a free webspace, so that is just an opinion :)

Comment on Real world example of blog impact

manuscrypts — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 02:58:43 GMT

i remember reading on metblogs that they'd called the city's bloggers for a guided tour of the facilities, before opening it to the public..