Great Listeners Make Great Conversationalist – True For Offline and Online Conversations
Seek first to understand, then to be understood.
I love this quote Bill Balderaz has at The Buzz Saw Blog in his Listening to Social Networks post.
I commented on Bill’s post that online conversations are very much like offline conversations – the great conversationalist are the great listeners.
To be effective one must have an understanding of the context of the conversation. You don’t just scream out to the world, “Listen to me, I’m important”, you need to listen and find out what you have of importance to give them.
Start this by setting up your own RSS Reader. If you have not done that yet, we’ve created a online video tutorial Getting Started with Google Reader for setting up a Google Reader to track listen to online conversations.
Hello_BenHere:
BrandonSings:
Room_214:
MattAt214:
jo_rogel:
runquatro:
ElyseHeslin:
JamesOClark:
JasonCormier:
peterahall: