Comments on: 3 Traits of True Social Media Experts

By: onreact

onreact — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 14:52:56 +0000

Hey Pete, yeah, I always credit photograpehrs and artists. I hate content theft myself. Creative Commons is the greatest thing since slice bread if you ask me.

By: Pete Prodoehl

Pete Prodoehl — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 16:25:05 +0000

I just wanted to thank you for properly crediting my photo. I always appreciate people who abide by the license my work is released under. :)

By: Steve

Steve — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 21:10:44 +0000

I always remember the saying… “The stranger is the expert”.

Terrible really… until you find out they have not got a clue what they are talking about :-)

By: Daniel Eckler

Daniel Eckler — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 19:42:14 +0000

editors [at] formatmag.com

By: Daniel Eckler

Daniel Eckler — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 19:41:32 +0000

Great post. Speaking of which, I’m looking for a “social media expert” able to drive traffic from Stumbleupon, Digg, Reddit, Delicious, and Twitter (and any other major resources you may have on hand) to quality viral content on my network of websites.

If you are well-versed/established on a number of these websites, please contact me to discuss possibilities.

By: Michiel Van Kets

Michiel Van Kets — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 03:11:57 +0000

It seems that these days everyone can call themself an expert. You are absolutely right with the statement that only others can call you an expert.

The minute a new word is created relating to any kind of industry it seems that “experts” will pop up out of the woodwork. Like you stated the only way you can attempt to define whether someone is a true professional in their field is to judge them on their past experience.

You state in your article – How can you consider someone an expert who has just 2 or 3 years of experience or even less? – there is the point in one simple sentence. However, the more difficult question is how many years of experience in a particular field should a person have before someone actually calls them an expert?

Is there a specific time frame whereby others decide ok this guy has put in the time and ground work lets give him the expert title. Customer feedback and referrals are the best way I have found to try to get a so called expert in the field I am after.

You wouldn’t want the plumber with a weeks experience working on your pipes when you could have the “expert” who has been physically working at the plumbing game for over 15 years. But again… what is the required time frame for expertise. Could be that the guy who has been a plumber for 15 years has not been following the new trends or products available for the industry whereas Mr just out of plumbing school perhaps is up with the latest advancements. I think the whole “expert” question is a difficult one to get to the bottom of.

However, like I said, referrals from other people are good place to start when looking for an expert in almost any field.

Rgds
Michiel

By: jerryford2009

jerryford2009 — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 14:15:22 +0000

I think it’s disingenuous to claim otherwise or to dispute that title claimed by others merely because they claimed it. (By the way, thanks for the response).

By: Cornelia Cunningham

Cornelia Cunningham — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 08:32:04 +0000

I could not agree more. People actually call themselves experts on certain fields when they barely know anything about it just to get the trust of their clients. It is part of the strategy.

By: DominicT

DominicT — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 04:02:15 +0000

It normally took people to grow in a field to be called experts. They made mistakes and learned from them.

Expert is an objective word. People may be in a field for years together and still a novice to certain things in the same field.

By: » Aus dem Dschungel, in den Dschungel | seoFM - der erste deutsche PodCast für SEOs und Online-Marketer

Tue, 09 Jun 2009 18:15:58 +0000

[...] 3 Wahrheiten über Social Media Experten – so true! [...]