'social media experts'
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- Dodecahedron0
Nobody gets hired for being an 'expert' but there is definitely a need for more and more specialists or experienced social media managers, strategists etc. Remember when everyone thought web designers were geniuses and millionaires?
- animatedgif0
Once got a presentation from one of these snake oil merchants.
Funniest shit I've ever read. What Ashton Kutchers twitter feed has to do with selling carpets I'll never know but it took up 3 slides of the presentation.
- yeah, that's usually how it's done, they bring in these "social media elitists" examples and tell you its mustpopfodders
- duhsign0
bitter much? haters gonna hate but it is what it is. They used to have the interns do this stuff so just look at it as giving seasoned interns fancy titles for making the company look good on all the social media sites you all are looking at everyday too. big deal.
- pumpaction0
Hoo I like this thread.
I have one of those at the desk next to me, he's a total douche nozzle.
Commenting on my layouts like he knows shit, always talking louder than anyone, I am building the perfect question for him so he can look like the wanker he is at the next status meeting.
- mekk0
they do a job that didn´t exist two years ago. and they will something else in two years.
- popfodders0
I think it's been said, but having done a lot of work as a PM, I see these twats fiddle their way into large projects and command top dollar. They make me want to cringe. Everyone's a designer, in their own heads, but social media has absolutely nothing to do with UX work.
- design takes actual talent..usually, wheras snake oil sales just takes gutsvaxorcist
- monoboy0
It's just a new medium. Success is born from good content. If you've got nothing interesting to say, nobody listens. whether that's in print, a blog, facebook or twitter.
- BattleAxe0
- how make money from mumble :)byname
- Annie Lennox is full o shit man...babaganush
- Zerbinows0
Thanks for this....
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- omg0
Charlie Sheen is #1 social media expert
- don't laugh, he was dominating it and he knew it. he was fucking with everyone and they drank the kool-aidpopfodders
- and no one gives a shit or wants to work with him now. GREAT FUCKING JOBanimatedgif
- Ancillary0
The job is totally bunk, but most of the social media team where I work are kinda cool and geeky
- tOki0
- bjladams0
there's a big social network conference going on in town today... it's an odd thing to behold. lots of circular reasoning for the sake of self-preservation.
- uuuuuu0
They should all just admit they work in marketing/PR and that they aren't really experts in anything.
- Well, they do they work in marketing/PR. And why can't they be experts?haga
- If they were experts in social media they would be picking and choosing there salaries with the top companies in the worlduuuuuu
- ...world. Also they would be in high level think tanks and doing private consultation with Charlie Sheen's people.uuuuuu
- Not sure people realize the meaning of the word "expert".uuuuuu
- i don't think that just because you're a 'expert' that means you can pick your own $...bjladams
- Having professional experience and knowledge of a sub-field of marketing does not constitute expertise or specialty.uuuuuu
- Its just a phrase. They would be in demand to say the least, not like merely employed.uuuuuu
- seems a lot of these guys are well paid, and bring a lot of attention to their companies...bjladams
- but they aren't experts duh... they are just valuable employees. I'd allow them to claim a specialty but expert is simply wrong and misleading.uuuuuu
- ... misleading. Experts in science or industry for example have to earn the word 'expert' and are paid for it.uuuuuu
- You get 'expert' added to your resume when you've accomplished something significant for the ENTIRE field.uuuuuu
- ... field you're in.uuuuuu
- well, seems your the expert then.bjladams
- see no.... I'm just correct. Its like people really don't know what 'expert' actually means.uuuuuu
- hahahabjladams
- mg330
I just talked to someone about this the other day and remembered the friend I mentioned. I cannot imagine throwing away $$ on a degree in social media when everyone is just making this stuff up as they go. Talk about a waste.
- sherm0
I'm not trying to start a war or nothing but a lot of people have the same consideration for design or development as well. So lets be cool and play nice.
- hotroddy0
how about seo strategists? errrhh
- GeorgesII0
what a BUNCH of cunts!
sorry had to vent