September 2010
Beginner to intermediate
256 pages
4h 39m
English
Content preview from UnMarketing: Stop Marketing. Start EngagingBecome an O’Reilly member and get unlimited access to this title plus top books and audiobooks from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers, thousands of courses curated by job role, 150+ live events each month,
O’Reilly covers everything we've got, with content to help us build a world-class technology community, upgrade the capabilities and competencies of our teams, and improve overall team performance as well as their engagement.I wanted to learn C and C++, but it didn't click for me until I picked up an O'Reilly book. When I went on the O’Reilly platform, I was astonished to find all the books there, plus live events and sandboxes so you could play around with the technology.I’ve been on the O’Reilly platform for more than eight years. I use a couple of learning platforms, but I'm on O'Reilly more than anybody else. When you're there, you start learning. I'm never disappointed.I'm always learning. So when I got on to O'Reilly, I was like a kid in a candy store. There are playlists. There are answers. There's on-demand training. It's worth its weight in gold, in terms of what it allows me to do.
Chapter 22. Don't Feed the Trolls
THERE ARE NEGATIVE things that can happen when you become active on social media sites. I am not going to lie to you. I have made myself visible on these sites and I know what can happen— the good and the bad. When you jump into the social media world for your company, you invite the world to come. And all the world does.
Back in my über-geek days, I used to hang out in IRC chat rooms. These rooms were places where fellow geeks could hang out in different topic-based rooms, swap stories, MP3s,[64] and generally connect with others.
Every time, bar none, he would appear. The troll:
In Internet slang, a troll is someone who posts controversial, inflammatory, irrelevant, or off-topic messages in an online community, such as an online discussion forum, chat room, or blog, with the primary intent of provoking other users into an emotional response or of otherwise disrupting normal on-topic discussion.[65]
Usually, this sorry excuse for a human being would type something like "Your mom is hot" or "That's what your mom said."[66]
Nowadays, trolls have moved into the social media stream, leaving nasty blog comments, sending meathead tweets, or insulting Facebook comments.
Witness a recent tweet from someone:
"Am I the only one to find @unmarketing[67] an annoying, blabber mouthed, self prophetic ass?"
I had to look-up "self prophetic."
How do you deal with them? How do I deal with them?[68]
Here are four tips to get you out of the troll spiral:
DFTT (Don't Feed the ...
Become an O’Reilly member and get unlimited access to this title plus top books and audiobooks from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers, thousands of courses curated by job role, 150+ live events each month,
and much more.
Read now
Unlock full access
More than 5,000 organizations count on O’Reilly
O’Reilly covers everything we've got, with content to help us build a world-class technology community, upgrade the capabilities and competencies of our teams, and improve overall team performance as well as their engagement.Julian F.
I wanted to learn C and C++, but it didn't click for me until I picked up an O'Reilly book. When I went on the O’Reilly platform, I was astonished to find all the books there, plus live events and sandboxes so you could play around with the technology.Addison B.
I’ve been on the O’Reilly platform for more than eight years. I use a couple of learning platforms, but I'm on O'Reilly more than anybody else. When you're there, you start learning. I'm never disappointed.Amir M.
I'm always learning. So when I got on to O'Reilly, I was like a kid in a candy store. There are playlists. There are answers. There's on-demand training. It's worth its weight in gold, in terms of what it allows me to do.