Comments on: Social Media Expert or Jester

By: Why did you leave Twitter? « Damien Mulley

Why did you leave Twitter? « Damien Mulley — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 12:35:03 +0000

[...] more. Most of the social media jesters put up numbers on their blog entries (while declaring it ain’t a numbers game) about how [...]

By: Calvin Jones

Calvin Jones — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 20:40:17 +0000

Have to say I agree with much of this.

This whole dilution of the term “expert” started with daytime telly… when Richard and Judy started trotting out “experts” on anything and everything. It was all downhill from there, and social media has just exacerbated things.

Case in point: when I was in college at Liverpool doing Marine Biology one of my classmates — a mature student in his first year of an undergrad course — got on Richard and Judy as a Marine Biology expert commenting on the environmental impact of oil spills in the Persian Gulf during the first Iraq war. Much like many of today’s social media “experts” he was making it up as he went along. It was priceless.

Not sure I’d use the term jester though… because most of these jokers are far from funny. Entertaining though… definitely entertaining .

And there’s nothing wrong with making money genuinely helping businesses to engage through social media, or get to grips their online marketing. As long as you’re focus is on adding value, and steering them around the countless pitfalls (often the one’s you’ve fallen into yourself) rather than ripping them off.

Of course, whether or not you’re classed as a jester could just be down to the type of hat you wear.

(Oops… somehow this comment ended up much longer than I intended it to be)

By: Gareth

Gareth — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 16:29:06 +0000

I worry when anybody appends the word “expert” to their job title

By: Ann Donnelly

Ann Donnelly — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 08:34:23 +0000

Problem is, these experts/jesters will read this because it’s a Mulley post, but they won’t see themselves in it!

By: Fluffy Links – Tuesday 28th July 2009 « Damien Mulley

Fluffy Links – Tuesday 28th July 2009 « Damien Mulley — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 04:52:47 +0000

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By: lisadom

lisadom — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 17:33:07 +0000

half of me wants to get really good at jesting so I can go and make a lot of money out of it and help my kids school. The other half knows it’s really pretty easy, and people should do it themselves.

Can I make some money – for a little while at least??

By: Allan Cavanagh

Allan Cavanagh — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 16:32:39 +0000

I like this comments thing of to the side here. Don’t know about the paint job.

By: Branedy

Branedy — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 16:18:11 +0000

I’d love to be the Jester, except that no one finds me funny, they all stop laughing when I come into the room.