Comments on: Forget The Statusphere. How About The Egosystem?

By: Fg2001

Fg2001 — Fri, 01 Apr 2011 06:07:00 +0000

How do they come up with stupid words like “STATUSPHERE” it is bad enough that they use the word “CLOUD”, I wish they stopped pulling words that mean nothing out of their ass !

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[...] 2.0 and so on. However, what it should be called, is the STATUSphere. And it revolves around our EGOsystem. Mine, apparently, is [...]

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By: Brendan Howley

Brendan Howley — Thu, 07 May 2009 12:36:58 +0000

Hi Dave

Dead on. Godin’s of course right: but there’s more

IMHO the real ecosystem is HOW you’re talking to—the audience who’ve self-selected in that particular medium, not some marketer’s demographic.

And what’s really interesting [at least to me] is that the more diverse the media consumption [online, print, radio, TV, even face2face gossip], the more likely a person is to consume media and then dialogue.

So the self-selection piece [eg Twitter not Facebook, BBC not CNN] is even more important than age or gender or degree of education: more and more, as media fragments, the pipeline choice will play an ever greater role in evolving our minds. [Pure McLuhan!]

I personally think this is a profound opportunity to recast not only how we communicate, but, more importantly for the future of the planet and us humans, how we learn

And that’s what closes the loop: if how we consume media is becoming more and more what we think, how we change what we think is all about learning and engagement…without which there is no activism, no community

By: Brian Solis

Brian Solis — Wed, 06 May 2009 17:06:44 +0000

Great article Dave. A few years ago, Chris Pirillo dubbed it the Narcissystem.

Today in Hamburg at Next09, I challenged people to stop answering “What you are doing” on Twitter b/c the answers are mostly meaningless.

Instead, let’s answer questions that force us to think about the updates we wish to galvanize action, response, connections, learning, et al, such as “what inspires you,” “what did you learn today,” “who should we pay attention to and why,” “what are we better off for knowing now because we follow you,” etc. We need to stop tweeting “at” followers and start listening to the things that help us grow, learn, and in turn, contribute value back to those who follow us. We must earn followers and friends. Participating on the Social Web is a privilege. Just because we have access to these broadcast tools doesn’t mean we have something interesting to say…our tweets set the foundation for our online persona and long-term legacy. How do we wish to be characterized or remembered?

I believe that in order to stop transforming social media into broadcast media or egocasting, we need to take a more proactive role in injecting value into the stream – for the benefits of the people on both sides of the update. It’s the only way to take the “me” out of social media. in the end, we’re measured by actions not words and the contextual relationships that bind us together.

Here are two great summaries from the conference:

http://is.gd/x9WI
http://is.gd/xfXi

Thanks for bringing this into the public spotlight for discussion!