2HousePlague
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Joined: 28 Jun 2005
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 Posted: Wed Dec 07, 2005 10:35 am Post subject: Misalignment of the Porous Membrane |
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"Why corporate blogging works. Sure, we know it's the hot new thing and people are paying attention to it (including big media)... but why?
Why does it work? Seriously.
So I drew the diagram above.
1. In Cluetrain parlance, we say "markets are conversations". So the diagram above represents your market, or "The Conversation". That is demarkated by the outer circle "y".
2. There is a smaller, inner circle "x".
3. So the entire market, the "conversation" is seperated into two distinct parts, the inner area "A" and the outer area "B".
4. Area "A" represents your company, the people supplying the market. We call that "The Internal Conversation".
5. Area "B" represents the people in the market who are not making, but buying. Otherwise know as the customers. We call that "The External Conversation".
6. So each market from a corporate point of view has an internal and external conversation. What seperates the two is a membrane, otherwise known as "x".
7. Every company's membrane is different, and controlled by a host of different technical and cultural factors.
8. Ideally, you want A and B to be identical as possible, or at least, in sync... source
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