Day: October 28, 2010

@DannyBrown to be SPECIAL Guest on #MMchat!

Very excited to relate to all of you #MMchat tweeps out there that the inimitable @DannyBrown has agreed to grace us with his jocular presence on #MMchat on November 1st at 8:00pm eastern!!

And going it even one better, together we have agreed that for the first time, the topic for @DannyBrown ‘s #MMchat will be crowdsourced from all of you #MMchat tweeps out there!

So please send us your suggested topic for @DannyBrown to wax poetic or type frantically about, and he’ll pick the best one for our firehose chat with him on Monday November 1st. Simply @Msg or DM @TheSocialCMO your suggestion by midnight Monday October 4th if you’d like it to be considered. We will of course recognize the selected suggestor and they will even get the honour of posing the first question to @DannyBrown on their topic.

Hope you’re all as excited as I am to have @DannyBrown join us and we look forward to gettng some amazing topic suggestions from all of you who make #MarketerMonday Chat matter! Remember #MMchat makes Mondays MARVELOUS!!

Cheers

Jeff Ashcroft

@TheSocialCMO

Dump your followers!

Picture credit: NathanHulls.Com

This post was prompted by a conversation I had in the #MMChat with SPECIAL guest @GlenGilmore on twitter, that takes place Monday nights. We got a little hung up on the whole “engagement” thing.

I get tired of being told that:

“It’s all about the engagement”,

“It’s all about the conversation.”

Time for a reality check. A minimum of 95% of the connections in mostpeoples networks are passive in social-media channels. It’s a bit like the number of people who have real conversations with others outside of their immediate circle or acquaintances in a bar, not very many. Social, often reflects real life.

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