Sau in urmatoarea prezenta a lui Ionut Oprea la o conferinta de genul asta o sa vedem o “altfel de” prezentare.

If the term is in fact meaningless, reading or writing or talking about it is a waste of time, energy, money,… — whatever.

If you’re willing to try to define it, I’d be glad to take a look at any definition you might come up with (perhaps not ad infinitum, but at least once

What I think MG was trying to actually say through his non-answer was that maybe it’s not such an important thing to try and construct a definition for today’s social media since it’s evolving at such a great pace, and that it’s more useful to focus on its effects of some observable part of it, such as Twitter and Facebook

See http://news.linked.in/1206/happy-that-malcolm-gladwell-responded-to-my-question-coveritlive-even-if-he-didnt-answer-it

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Romanian to English translation ( http://translate.google.com )

When I wrote the other day that the audience is meant to be an interesting conference, some more familiar role of participant in the audience than at the desk, I complained that I am wrong, with different arguments, closely related to the syndrome of paternal post-revolutionary Romanian people (”to give us”).

Well, Malcolm Gladwell The New Yorker and have demonstrated once again how important is the role of questions in a discussion. We consider article Gladwell wrote about Twitter that his own presentation at a global conference (even if they work in a publication called The New Yorker), and chat last night that you can find here in a crude form below and was edited by me questions and answers.

Ok, the resemblance does not go away so he wrote the article a few days before, readers have time to go through it several times, and questions session lasted one hour, which would be the at a local conference barbaric.

Essence MG’s article about Twitter and social media, for whom he did not have time or feel, is that social networks are based mainly on poor relations, and have a decentralized structure, which allows them to create self-revolution, because Revolutions need strong relationships and a centralized system well tuned. And each case the author explains the “Twitter Revolution” including the Republic of Moldova to show that although the channel that was used for a link with the outside (low and that, for those who watched the events), Twitter has a decisive role in revolution itself (if we can say # Square protest and revolution).

Well, on the basis of this article started talking for an hour, you can watch whole lot less time here, and below which will extract the most interesting ideas:

1. Malcolm Gladwell has no Twitter account, those that exist are not created by him, the author says he has no time for this and other places already write enough. Some people have repeatedly ignored the question and answer in other forms: “Why do not you tweet more Often?”)

2. Twitter fans will immediately reproach, condescending: Well what can anyone say that is not using Twitter? Get me out of here … Wrong. A free thinker that Gladwell may have opinions about Twitter more relevant than a heavy-user fascinated by “social media” and who fills your head with information about facilities Twitter chaotic without understanding what’s important in work-life and the world. And if you read on, you’ll be convinced.

Buun, I convinced myself. He knows, sir! At the same time, it raises a serious problem. Some of the Internet and technology evangelists are so drunk with the fumes of their own beliefs about the Internet and technology that they think can solve everything with the help of these two. Evangelists have their important role to grease the wheels in evolution, but we must be rational when you hear:) And one of them and manages to annoy him a little:)

And finally, two more questions / comments that led discussion in two important ways: action vs. reaction, and reach versus attention (though it deals with advertising, Malcolm sees here a problem that many industry specialists see no)

In the end, leave you with two funny answers to two questions that have earned it:)

Awesome. It was a brilliant one-hour conference, we, the people I interviewed Malcolm Gladwell, thinker, writer and publisher of The New Yorker. I hope you liked the way I relocated and I have stressed the essential questions. Well, all this would have been possible without a live audience and acutely interested in developing open subject MG. That I want from you, my readers and listeners to my presentation:)

I have not had the opportunity to get my question answered, but I’m glad I had many colleagues for discussion smarter than me and with their help that the conference was the best conversation about social media that I had for a long time.