So many blogs, so little time – research or procrastination?

I have to apologise to Dave Duarte for my rather trite comment on an excellent post he wrote this week, entitled “Symptoms of Organisational Attention Deficit Disorder.” It might have seemed dismissive of the post, but certainly wasn’t intended to be. I started to add a further comment expanding on my previous one-line contribution, but then thought perhaps it needed a post of its own.

Dave opened with the question, “Do you ever get so overwhelmed with information that you end up procrastinating on all the things you should be doing to be productive?”

What also came up in subsequent comments was the distinction between “important” and “urgent”. I found myself wondering (aloud, because I recorded it in Dave’s Comments) where reading that post and subsequent comments fitted on my importance/urgency matrix.

Joining the Conversation

I love the title of Joseph Jaffe’s new book, and I’d like to read it, Dave (is the list of trackbacks in your comments the reservation list? I rather enjoyed Eric’s extremely minimalist approach to a mention )

“Join the Conversation”, for me, perfectly sums up marketing in the Web 2.0 universe. Whether you’re selling a political vision or designer jeans, people are talking about your brand online. And they’re paying much more attention to each other than they are to you.

The conversation is going to continue, with or without you. We’re joining it. Are you?