Comments on: Thousands of bloggers unite http://www.kevinkoym.com/blog/2007/10/15/thousands-of-bloggers-unite/ Entrepreneurship as life's path Mon, 30 Aug 2010 04:06:23 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 hourly 1 By: Kevin http://www.kevinkoym.com/blog/2007/10/15/thousands-of-bloggers-unite/comment-page-1/#comment-2490 Kevin Wed, 17 Oct 2007 03:17:01 +0000 http://www.exponentialentrepreneurship.com/blog/2007/10/15/thousands-of-bloggers-unite/#comment-2490 MJ, The simple answer is "awareness". No matter how you spin it... there was a great amount of awareness that was created that one day because of the messages that were posted in blogs around the world... A simple way to think about this is that imagine how much money would have had to been paid through traditional media outlets to have gotten anywhere near as much awareness that was created today... The funny thing is that most people might get lost in the notion of "unity movement" as "let's all decide one thing and agree to it". I think that it is naive to think that unity movement needs to be "let's all agree". In an ecology, there is not one idea... the notion of one organization promoting just one idea (say biofuels) just is not what we are talking about here... but the fact that awareness was promoted in a general area (environment) is what was powerful about this "unified" statement across tens of thousands of blogs. I don't think that there is an easy way to presently measure the impact of this message, other than going to google, and seeing how many people linked to the site http://www.blogactionday.com... the software is just not sophisticated enough to measure (yet) the disperse actions of this number of people across a similar (but not the exact same) message just yet. Or actually the technology is there but it is not available generally to track all of the issues yet. I do hear you though... it would be great to have a sense of now much _action_ was created by this one day, not just _awareness_. Thanks for your comment! MJ,
The simple answer is “awareness”. No matter how you spin it… there was a great amount of awareness that was created that one day because of the messages that were posted in blogs around the world… A simple way to think about this is that imagine how much money would have had to been paid through traditional media outlets to have gotten anywhere near as much awareness that was created today…

The funny thing is that most people might get lost in the notion of “unity movement” as “let’s all decide one thing and agree to it”. I think that it is naive to think that unity movement needs to be “let’s all agree”. In an ecology, there is not one idea… the notion of one organization promoting just one idea (say biofuels) just is not what we are talking about here… but the fact that awareness was promoted in a general area (environment) is what was powerful about this “unified” statement across tens of thousands of blogs.

I don’t think that there is an easy way to presently measure the impact of this message, other than going to google, and seeing how many people linked to the site http://www.blogactionday.com... the software is just not sophisticated enough to measure (yet) the disperse actions of this number of people across a similar (but not the exact same) message just yet. Or actually the technology is there but it is not available generally to track all of the issues yet. I do hear you though… it would be great to have a sense of now much _action_ was created by this one day, not just _awareness_. Thanks for your comment!

]]> By: MJ http://www.kevinkoym.com/blog/2007/10/15/thousands-of-bloggers-unite/comment-page-1/#comment-2482 MJ Tue, 16 Oct 2007 22:59:36 +0000 http://www.exponentialentrepreneurship.com/blog/2007/10/15/thousands-of-bloggers-unite/#comment-2482 Can you give a concrete example of how a union of bloggers have made measurable change in the world, or are "unity" movements like this a lot of talk without measurable impact to date? This would be interesting to track. Can you give a concrete example of how a union of bloggers have made measurable change in the world, or are “unity” movements like this a lot of talk without measurable impact to date? This would be interesting to track.

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