Let Someone Else Lead The Conversation
07/26/2007
It's the world 
of conversations. That's not news .. you knew that girlfriend. The social space of blogs and Facebook and Twitters and Pownce and zillions of smash-up communities provide options .. oh so many options (!)for casual chats.
But some afternoons it's nice to take a break, relax with a great cup of java or that special tea and let someone else do the work and lead the discussion .. in the old fashion genre of an interview. For your reading pleasure a few bloggers who are running "interview series."
Rajesh Lawlani,BlogWorks offers Blog The Talk with a focus on industry leaders in social media and technology. Rajesh's most recent interview, with Guy Kawasaki, explores high tech investment and investors.
Yvonne DiVita's, Lip-sticking, Smart Woman Online /Smart Man Online, provides wonderful insights into people and their passions.
Geoff Livingston,The Biz Buzz, taps social media "in the know" people, with a slant towards the PR biz, in his Interview Series.
Valeria Maltoni's, Conversation Agent, Ask (?) Away series is positioned as a recap of a conversation. Check out the right navigation bar under what else but ... "Conversations."
In keeping with bloggy transparency, through a series of interviews, Shel Israel, Global Neighborhoods, is conducting and sharing research for his client SAP on his blog. Shel's Global Survey interviews are a great way to "get a handle on what is happening in the world regarding social media."
Update: Merrill Durbrow, The Merrill Dubrow Blog, highlights leaders in marketing research industry in his interview series.
Lessons Learned: An interview series is a terrific win-win-win content tactic. Your community wins. Your interviewee wins and You win too.
