Jeremiah Owyang has a video on media snackers on his blog tonight. And he asked some of us to respond if we respect media snackers.
The video provides the definition of people my daughter’s age & how they get bits of info here & there. I noted the point that they utilize free spaces like Flickr & other storage spaces. That probably caught my attention because I’m polling our ACDSee customers as to what services they use so that we can provide uploaders to help them conveniently upload their ‘image snacking’ to their photo storage place of choice.
Since Jeremiah says he’s not concise, I definitely know that I’m not! I tend to enjoy writing. Personally I think Jeremiah does a great job of providing bite sized pieces & I need to work on that because I know that people are really busy. I know that I skim blog posts too.
What does my audience want or expect? Well, I’m hoping they’re looking for more than a snack. I prefer to put more thoughts here (bit more than a snack) and struggle with keeping it under 140 characters on Twitter. I’ve been putting short snack-like posts on our ACDSee blog though. That’s more like an appetizer with a number of entrees to choose from. We have products for home users, professionals and corporate folks.
Ok I quickly adapted this to a food analogy. Thanks Jeremiah for inviting me to add to the conversation! Now to keep the conversation going – I’m going to ask Clay Newton, David Yeo, Stan, & Connie Reece – Do you respect Media Snackers?
October 24th, 2007 on 10:07 pm
Thanks Connie! Starting to think about them snackers!
October 25th, 2007 on 5:22 am
Forget appetizers, Connie. You give us Thanksgiving.
October 25th, 2007 on 1:25 pm
Actually she usually provides enough snacks/talking to last from Thanksgiving through Christmas.
Sorry, I had to add and as a sister I can make a jab!
October 25th, 2007 on 11:19 pm
I’m guilty of being a mediasnacker myself. There’s just too much information cluttering the web and it’s really much more useful and efficient to take in bite-size morsels of information. I hate to spend more x amount of time on any single site. That’s why I think more and more people will take to news and social aggregator sites.
October 28th, 2007 on 6:25 pm
Hey Clay, thanks for joining in the meme! You’re a much more concise writer than I’ll ever be.
and Adam – that was TOO kind of you!
Heidi – you probably do owe me (I will get you back)
Thanks Connie R for joining the meme – your snack was great!
And Stan, I hear ya. I snack at Twitter on the links people tweet.
April 6th, 2009 on 9:04 pm
What a strange premise. How could you disrespect somebody, simply because of their preferred media consumption habits??
Might be interesting to have a discussion about whether that behavior is effective or not at getting oneself informed, but if the question is respect…..
well, I sure hope you do. And I sure do.