Comments on: Piloting Social Media as an Astronaut

By: Stacy Lukas

Stacy Lukas — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 22:08:27 +0000

I love this post, and agree that it IS hard to articulate these kind of things to people who aren’t in the social media realm. I need to come up with a nice metaphor like that, I’ve been responding to such queries with things like, “Businesses know they need to get online. I help them figure out what the hell to do once they get there.”

As an aside, I can’t help but have that line from that movie (White Men Can’t Jump? I don’t remember) in my head: “Ain’t NOBODY’S momma NO astronaut!!”
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By: Make cheese home

Make cheese home — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 21:57:18 +0000

Search engine’s usage is far way more than social media use. Plus traffic from search engines are more sustainable and longer term, while social media traffic is more sporadic.

By: Joel McLaughlin

Joel McLaughlin — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 16:31:01 +0000

Sounds like a fun seminar… I just got out of a meeting with a college the other day explaining some tactics for seo and social media, and I got a lot of nods and everyone was excited to get started, but I don’t think they knew much of what I was talking about

By: Danny Brown

Danny Brown — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 10:49:20 +0000

I simply say I give companies the voice they never knew they had.

Works as a conversation enabler every time.
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By: CJ Bowker

CJ Bowker — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 10:34:00 +0000

So what is your purpose of telling people your an “astronaut”? Are you looking to engage them or disengage them? The reason I ask is because if you want to follow up with these people, they will probably remember that you were the “astronaut”. This would most likely help them take your phone call and see where things go from there. Or maybe you don’t want to talk to people at all and you just enjoy the blank stares they give you. You let them go on their way and that is that. I guess my question is more simply, what is the purpose of what you described?
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