Comments on: Plate Spinning & New Media http://www.nateriggs.com/2009/07/27/plate-spining-new-medi/content-marketing-consulting Business consulting for content marketing, social media strategy, business blogging and online community management Sat, 11 Feb 2012 06:08:09 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Establishing Life Congruency | nateriggs.com | Columbus Social Media + Social Media Strategist | Nate Riggs & Social Business Strategies http://www.nateriggs.com/2009/07/27/plate-spining-new-medi/content-marketing-consulting/comment-page-1#comment-3331 Establishing Life Congruency | nateriggs.com | Columbus Social Media + Social Media Strategist | Nate Riggs & Social Business Strategies Fri, 03 Jun 2011 15:46:07 +0000 http://www.nateriggs.com/?p=694#comment-3331 [...] shift is hard to notice at the onset, but within a few weeks, the spinning plates start to come crashing [...] [...] shift is hard to notice at the onset, but within a few weeks, the spinning plates start to come crashing [...]

]]> By: Jacob Stoops http://www.nateriggs.com/2009/07/27/plate-spining-new-medi/content-marketing-consulting/comment-page-1#comment-176 Jacob Stoops Thu, 30 Jul 2009 14:31:54 +0000 http://www.nateriggs.com/?p=694#comment-176 I like the analogy. If you stretch yourself too thin by having a presence in too many social media avenues (and don't tweak your plates), you effectively negate your ability to manage all of them effectively. So the question you must ask yourself is quantity vs quality? Would you rather be average at managing you accounts and have a lot of them, or being really good at managing a select few? I like the analogy. If you stretch yourself too thin by having a presence in too many social media avenues (and don’t tweak your plates), you effectively negate your ability to manage all of them effectively. So the question you must ask yourself is quantity vs quality? Would you rather be average at managing you accounts and have a lot of them, or being really good at managing a select few?

]]> By: Jim Brochowski http://www.nateriggs.com/2009/07/27/plate-spining-new-medi/content-marketing-consulting/comment-page-1#comment-175 Jim Brochowski Wed, 29 Jul 2009 22:19:50 +0000 http://www.nateriggs.com/?p=694#comment-175 Great post! Having been out of the loop for the first part of July, I've spent the second part reevaluating my plates so to speak, hoping to try to find ways to keep my audience cheering as it were. Coming away from that experience I have to say your post here is right on target. Using your analogy - My hangup was with the costume. I think I have the plates where they need to be, and I know the audience is there, but it took me awhile to figure out why, and I'm still not sure yet that I have it nailed down. Having said that, I think that if I had waited to figure out what that costume is my experience would have been altogether different. I got lucky in that when the audience was looking at me I didn't go "deer in the headlights," and let my plates come crashing down. Instead I sort of asked myself why and where they were all looking at me and had one of those self recognition moments realizing - Ah, this is what I bring to this, (these) table(s), and this is what keeps the audience coming back. (I have to admit that while I think I know what "this" is, I don't know what the term for it is.) At some point I hope to find out what will make the audience more vocal, and keep them engaged. The plates are spinning, but I've yet to hear the thunderous applause. Just have to keep on tweaking, or as I like to call it "being in perpetual beta." Great post!
Having been out of the loop for the first part of July, I’ve spent the second part reevaluating my plates so to speak, hoping to try to find ways to keep my audience cheering as it were.

Coming away from that experience I have to say your post here is right on target. Using your analogy -

My hangup was with the costume. I think I have the plates where they need to be, and I know the audience is there, but it took me awhile to figure out why, and I’m still not sure yet that I have it nailed down.

Having said that, I think that if I had waited to figure out what that costume is my experience would have been altogether different. I got lucky in that when the audience was looking at me I didn’t go “deer in the headlights,” and let my plates come crashing down. Instead I sort of asked myself why and where they were all looking at me and had one of those self recognition moments realizing – Ah, this is what I bring to this, (these) table(s), and this is what keeps the audience coming back. (I have to admit that while I think I know what “this” is, I don’t know what the term for it is.)

At some point I hope to find out what will make the audience more vocal, and keep them engaged.
The plates are spinning, but I’ve yet to hear the thunderous applause.
Just have to keep on tweaking, or as I like to call it “being in perpetual beta.”

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