"Can you be a thought leader without a blog?"
Robert kicks of an interesting discussion tonight on Friendfeed. My view is absolutely. There were thought leaders before blogging.
Also, I tried to post this as an iframe so you can follow the conversation live but Posterous wouldn't allow me to. I hit my first limitation. Hopefully Posterous will add iframing and more embeds.
I understand moving on to the next evolution of social media. However, I'm not clear on what he feels is taking the place of blogging.
I don't necessarily consider using posterous as your platform of choice as "not having a blog".
Blogging is still in it's infancy and to think that we have seen all of it's maturations and evolutions is silly.
Posterous seems to me to simply offer a variety of ways to get content into a variety of systems with a bit of automation to go along with it (for pictures and videos etc). At the end of the day though, IMHO this is still just a blog.
I do think it is hard to be a thought leader without some sort of blog, because it is through that blog that you build up your reputation with other thought leaders and peers. I think it is difficult to beat the static nature of a blog (or Posterous) post when it comes to sharing and linking information. FF and Twitter are too fast, its easy to miss the conversations if you step away for a while and it is still complicated to setup searches that help you dig through the mass of information. The average person, and perhaps even the average thought leader, will miss most of the conversation if it is scattered across FF, Twitter, a blog, Facebook and who knows where else.
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