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Blah blah blah. Im a professional Expert is what you will be hearing next, or an Expert in being Professional. I have actually heard it once or twice, and yes, only through Twitter.
It's ok to be confident, to have trust in yourself and your abilities, calling yourself an Expert however, I guess much like calling yourself a professional is somewhat of a grey area with lots of people.
BUt you hit the nail on the head with the onslaught of people seeping through the cracks claiming to be this and that when they are so clearly nothing more than following the next easy path to a instant career trend.
Meh.
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The thing that kills me the most is that now "EVERYONE" is a "social media marketing" specialist, yet they've got 36 friends on twitter, only stumbled 400 pages in stumbleupon and has never used digg, mixx, sphinn or other social media websites.
I think the word EXPERT should only be used by people who make a million+ each year SOLELY through social media work. just my opinion though.
I run a blog with social media related articles, but I never claim on it to be an expert. I'm just sharing my advice and things I've seen work/not work. More people need to play the right roles. But then again, in another couple years the next big craze will come through and 90% of the "experts" with social media will become experts somewhere else.
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Thanks Roger :)...great post!
I guess if you work at something long enough you could call your self an expert but you may only but an expert in a certian part of you job eg. web designer > coder > php coder < expert at php not expert web designer or expert coder. can you cover all the social medias and market everything, do the same rules apply!
I think i might start calling myself a scientist because i like experimenting with certain mediums but by no means an expert.
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That's just a load of crap... If there's one business that shouldn't have any experts at all it's marketing... it's all about gutfeelings and has too many variables to come to exact conclusions. The only thing people can do is follow that feeling and hope they don't make the same mistake twice. Cause we make mistakes, more often than we succeed actually. (or is that just me? :) If so... hope my boss isn't reading)
"opinions are like assholes, everyone has one"
(Can't remember who said it, but it fits just right in this discussion)
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Social MEDIA marketing is pretty big right now, and because it's a new field, it's difficult to determine who's an expert.
However, social marketing (as mentioned in the quote, referring to behaviour change) is NOT a new field. Referring to the wikipedia entry on social marketing (interestingly enough, from which your quote appears to be pulled), social marketing as a discipline has been around since the 1970s. There is an academic journal and academic programs dedicated to the field. It has NOTHING to do with how often you blog or tweet.
Experts in the social marketing field? Those who are published and have made advances in the field. I'd mention <a href="Beginning in the 1970s, it has in the last decade matured into a much more integrative and inclusive discipline that draws on the full range of social sciences and social policy approaches as well as marketing.
Contents">Nedra Weinreich and R Craig Lefevre, who don't just blast into an echo chamber but work within an established field to offer content of value.
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