Comments on: Never take short cuts within social media

By: Iggy Pintado

Iggy Pintado — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 00:34:50 +0000

We’re all human and we make mistakes – offline or online. We need to ensure we recover from these in a way that’s logical and inoffensive to maintain our integrity. Thanks for reminding us of this, Ms. Sam!

Cheers, Iggy

By: Jade Craven

Jade Craven — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 21:01:03 +0000

Part of anything social is making mistakes. I do it all the time.

Social media speeds up the process and provides us with the temptation to take shortcuts.

I, too, would be interested in the details but its always admirable to see someone turn a mistake into a lesson learnt.

jade

By: Firas Steitiyeh

Firas Steitiyeh — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 10:32:37 +0000

I totally agree with what you have mentioned above Sam, but the thing is we always shouldn’t take shortcuts not only in social media related issues, but with everything!

I believe that if mistakes didn’t happen to us, we will never learn so my advice to you mate is be thankful for the mistake and learn from it and continue your successful journey!

Very interesting words and beneficial ones as well.

Thanks for sharing your experiences mate!

Best,
Steit

By: Aylin

Aylin — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 09:41:54 +0000

Having an active online presence only reinforces the importance of remaining true to oneself, sticking to personal values and ensuring consistency and transparency in the message you’re sending.
People tend to forget that what is said online, stays online and is accessible by anyone at anytime…
Good post.

By: David Warwick

David Warwick — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 07:57:31 +0000

Not sure of your faux pas, but congratulations on your remedy. Social Media is not always for the feint hearted, we are all opening ourselves up to comment and self-discovery. The more we ‘put it out there’, the more we open ourselves up to error, attack and other unpleasant outcomes. The result is worth it, because the flip side is making a contribution, learning and constantly checking ourselves against the view of the whole online world. You Sam are leading the charge as much as anyone! Congratulations and thanks for the post.

By: George Hall

George Hall — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 02:56:52 +0000

Long-term, sticking to values in ANY space always wins out.

Sometimes it’s all too easy to take those shortcuts, but they cost in the end.

But you learned from the lesson and that’s called experience.

By: Frank

Frank — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 22:13:15 +0000

Details, please DETAILS!!!

Great to read you have used it as a learner. Immediate action and many humble apologies showing you are human AND prepared to fix up your mistakes can have excellent benefits in long term relationships with clients. No one is perfect.

Good luck

By: Sam Mutimer

Sam Mutimer — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 04:27:43 +0000

Wow, thanks for the comments guys. I completely agree with you there. I love what you say also I_enigma ” DO what you know is right by your heart and you will always come out on top”. This is a sentence we can all take on board, think about and act when in times of need. Rock on!

By: I_enigma

I_enigma — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 03:51:55 +0000

A mistake made is a lesson learnt. But…….. you talk about values – which can also be called ethics.
DO what you know is right by your heart and you will always come out on top – even if you are wrong – because by being honest both with yourself and others – you can afford to make tthe odd mistake and be forgiven for it

By: AJ Kulatunga

AJ Kulatunga — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 03:43:01 +0000

Hi Sam!

very impressed with your “speed to market” regarding this blog post. Was only a few hours ago you tweeted about your mistake and here we are learning from your lesson this morning.

I always look at mistakes as learning opportunities but I prefer to call them “decisions”. Sometimes you make good decisions and sometimes you make bad ones. The trick is to accept both types and as soon as you accept the bad ones you’ll find that options seem to flow to you in the weirdest ways!

Dream, Build, Inspire, Lead!

AJ~