Comments on: Did You Vote in the Shorty Awards? http://www.fastforwardblog.com/2009/01/05/did-you-vote-in-the-shorty-awards/ Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:29:35 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Bill Ives http://www.fastforwardblog.com/2009/01/05/did-you-vote-in-the-shorty-awards/comment-page-1/#comment-206760 Bill Ives Fri, 09 Jan 2009 17:41:57 +0000 http://www.fastforwardblog.com/?p=1283#comment-206760 Steve Thanks for your comment. I have seen worse blog awards that try to get you to pay an entry fee to compete for the "honors" they offer. There is a real scam. I do think there is a place for legitimate recognition for good work but it seems like there is a lot of self-promotion that downgrades many awards as you mention. I also agree about the quality versus quantity issue. I recently saw a blog post about what to do when you reach the 5000 person limit for Facebook friends. It seems that 5000 friends in an oxymoron. Bill Steve

Thanks for your comment. I have seen worse blog awards that try to get you to pay an entry fee to compete for the “honors” they offer. There is a real scam. I do think there is a place for legitimate recognition for good work but it seems like there is a lot of self-promotion that downgrades many awards as you mention. I also agree about the quality versus quantity issue. I recently saw a blog post about what to do when you reach the 5000 person limit for Facebook friends. It seems that 5000 friends in an oxymoron. Bill

]]> By: Steve Radick http://www.fastforwardblog.com/2009/01/05/did-you-vote-in-the-shorty-awards/comment-page-1/#comment-206646 Steve Radick Fri, 09 Jan 2009 04:35:48 +0000 http://www.fastforwardblog.com/?p=1283#comment-206646 I've hated the Shorty awards since I first heard about them. Made-up awards to help make people more "Internet famous." This is the same reason I can't stand the tweets about "help me reach 10,000 followers by midnight!" Who cares? Who are you competing with? Are you getting any value out of this grand self-promotion or is it simply to say that you "know Internet marketing" by saying you have 10,000 followers. It's not about the number of your followers - it's about the quality of your relationships out there. Joel Postman has a great post on this phenomenon here - http://www.socializedpr.com/my-big-fat-failed-experiment-in-self-promotion/. I’ve hated the Shorty awards since I first heard about them. Made-up awards to help make people more “Internet famous.” This is the same reason I can’t stand the tweets about “help me reach 10,000 followers by midnight!” Who cares? Who are you competing with? Are you getting any value out of this grand self-promotion or is it simply to say that you “know Internet marketing” by saying you have 10,000 followers. It’s not about the number of your followers – it’s about the quality of your relationships out there.

Joel Postman has a great post on this phenomenon here – http://www.socializedpr.com/my-big-fat-failed-experiment-in-self-promotion/.

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