Comments on: I’m STILL Doing It Wrong: 5 MORE Mistakes I’ve Made in Social Media

By: An interview with Justin Kownacki « Barry Dewar – Social media

An interview with Justin Kownacki « Barry Dewar – Social media — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 10:16:59 +0000

[...] of what works and what doesn’t. One of the first blogs posts to really catch my attention was I’m STILL Doing It Wrong: 5 MORE Mistakes I’ve Made in Social Media from Justin Kownacki. It pretty much came to define what I’m trying to do on this blog, [...]

By: Carey

Carey — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 01:02:00 +0000

Do the bots catch the email address if it is a link like Justin does, rather than typed out? Would that be a way to avoid them? Or is that wishful thinking? I am on the communications committee of my local PCMA chapter and we are creating a blog to replace our newsletter. I want to make sure, like Davina said, that our contact info is everywhere. Carey (my nickname) (Anne) Carey, CMP Meetings & Events Professional Chicago

By: Carey

Carey — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 22:02:40 +0000

By: Chris B

Chris B — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 18:16:00 +0000

I’m glad to see that someone else uses the Twitter interface too! With all the firewalls, exclusions, etc., at my day job, it has just drifted to the top as the easiest to use. I’m also still working with the usability of lists – and I’m only following 100+ which is a LOT less than you – but my slightly obsessive personality has me getting sucked into trying to read everything which is not a viable long-term strategy.

By: Chris B

Chris B — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 15:16:34 +0000

I'm glad to see that someone else uses the Twitter interface too! With all the firewalls, exclusions, etc., at my day job, it has just drifted to the top as the easiest to use. I'm also still working with the usability of lists – and I'm only following 100+ which is a LOT less than you – but my slightly obsessive personality has me getting sucked into trying to read everything which is not a viable long-term strategy.

By: Justin Kownacki

Justin Kownacki — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 14:29:29 +0000

It's not terrible, and most of us take that defensive step in some capacity. But it really does come across as somewhat self-important or overwhelmingly paranoid.

To me, having an actual mailto: link gives visitors the reassurance that they're reaching the correct address, AND that you have a smart enough spam filter in place that you probably know what you're talking about when it comes to the Internet. Reassuring the visitor of your own capabilities seems like a much healthier image to project than forcing visitors to jump through deductive hoops because you don't want YOUR day inconvenienced by spam.

Perception, yo.

By: carolott

carolott — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 14:19:01 +0000

Would love a way to prevent from being invaded by spambots if I use a mailto: link on our website. Is it terrible to have “name AT organization.com” listed on your contact us page?

By: Ike Pigott

Ike Pigott — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 13:34:52 +0000

Yeah. What he said.

By: Jamie Sandford

Jamie Sandford — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 11:55:54 +0000

Justin,

Here's one thought on th e-mail registration issue. Since you have your own domain name, I'd consider setting up your e-mail address using that domain. Then, if your host allows it, just add “forwarders” to your main and/or business e-mail addresses.

I have used a version of this for sites I register for. For instance, when i register for Delicious, I might use delicious@mydomainname.com; that would just forward to my main e-mail account. Then, if for some reason, I need for those e-mails to start going somewhere else (i.e. change from home to work), then I can just change where the incoming e-mail routes to on my hosting side without doing it at Delicious.

This also helps me keep track of where spam is coming from because I can see the account name in the incoming e-mail and figure out who might've sold my e-mail address.

Just food for thought!
Jamie

By: davinabrewer

davinabrewer — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 11:53:29 +0000

Your posts always teach me something new, so THANKS. #1: Contact info. I have it on my site, in the navigation and footer but you're right: it needs to be everywhere! Making changes today!