This guest post is margieclayman.comby Margie of tenacious D.
One of my favorite Elvis Costello choruses goes like this:
"What's so funny ' bout peace, love and understanding?"
I've always liked that song, but I've never really thought I would live in a time where that question would resonate. I always thought, "well, that was written when peace and love, it seemed hokey, maybe, or maybe even impossible. It was more than a rhetorical question when Elvis first sang it. "
And yet, if I am here in the year 2011 is, I have to ask the same question. What's so funny ' bout peace, love and understanding? Certainly seems as though all three concepts are carried out in a PR crisis in the online world.
I've gotten picked up a bit more than my years in the world of social media. Why? Because I am nice. I'm lovey dovey. People have told me that it's really boring to listen to someone like me, because I never had any ruffle feathers.
To the friendly, I think that is a completely ridiculous feeling.
Sure, you get a strong response from someone if you call someone, to hurl insults, bash, or say that someone is really stupid. There is no doubt that ruffling feathers tends too big for attention and traffic spikes. So what?
If you want to get people to read your blog posts, to entice what about the concept of writing really good content? Really thought-provoking content? What about writing about something people are not much about writing? If, I do not know ... like you're beautiful, perhaps? Why does excitement in the online world, or interest, synonymous with cruelty or malicious intentions? I would rather boring and beautiful than enjoying a bit of success at the expense of others.
This is another expression that I have seen many in the online world about my year the wild Internet navigating waters, and I also think it is utter nonsense. Why are we measure success by how many people hate us? There is no other domain that I can think of in the human world where we measure success in this way.
"Congratulations, Daisy. Everyone in your Department do you hate so we are going to give you now! " That just doesn't happen. So why do we need to pull out the haters instead of a measure when we talk about measuring online success? What is this need to have people attack us everything about?
How can I measure my online success? I look at how many people say that they enjoy my posts. I look at the solid relationships that I've built. It's not exactly a revolutionary concept, people.
My friend Sean McGinnis ran into a post that this claim: that women are not as many can find success in the world because women just not selfish or egotistical enough.
First of all, let me tell you about some of the women I have encountered in my life. If you know about knife stabbing, in-it-for-itself, ruthless, downright cruel women want, I can spiders ya a yarn, sonny jim. That's not a problem.
Second of all, what?!? Are we really say that success is based on how much you want to make people vomit when they see you? I mean, that doesn't sound like a success for me. That sounds kind of like, I don't know ... crazy-sauce?
In addition to the glorification of failure do I find the glorification of rudeness or cruelty the most nauseating thing I have encountered on the Web. You do not have for breaking your button Censor be welcomed. You don't have to get accolades because every other post has an f-bomb. Surely there is more to online success than comparisons with male and female genitals is someone who invites? I mean, really. Can we aim a little higher?
Then again, maybe I'm just a boring nice person.
You tell me what this is all about.
Margie represents the third generation to tenacious D marketing company of her family. She is the resident librarian in the Blog-library www.margieclayman.comand is the resident blogger at.
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