Collective Thoughts - Social Media Thinking

Nov 24, 2007 at 3:34 AM
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<rant> The sheer propensity of mainstream humans to congregate in targetable, virulent, and roaming electronic social packs has resulted in spawning a beautiful new breed of working class public relations heroes: “The Social Media Czars.”

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Blogging as an Art Form

December 6th, 2007

I was interviewed yesterday by Gloria Goodale of the Christian Science Monitor. Firstly it is always interesting to be ‘on the other side’ of these conversations. To be the interviewee and not the PR guy is a bit surreal, but I think it allows you to be a bit more relaxed and have a better understanding of the process. Gloria is a pro and made the interview very conversational and fun. I’m not going to post everything about the upcoming article because I know Gloria is still working on interviews, but one themes the conversation centered around was blogging as a form of art.

To be honest I had never thought of blogging as an art form, it was always a communications and interaction platform. Blogs serve as a terrific resource in the quest to better engage with communities; they are a quintessential foundation to the idea and definition of Social Media. Perhaps this was me putting on blinders, since blogging as communication was what I did every day. But is blogging an art form? Yes I know, “Art is in the eye of the beholder”, but that’s too easy to say. I did a bit of digging and wanted to share some thoughts on this topic.

Sweet Briar College’s Art History Department had some really good info online, but this struck me as apt to the conversation:

http://www.engageinpr.com/