Nielsen holds a conference on “consumer-generated media” but won’t allow blogging. Can Nielsen perhaps measure the high irony and low IQ in that? [via Rubel]
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I posted a detailed comment about this on my own blog, and invite you to check it out. In summary: this particular event was primarily our customers sharing their case studies with one another, and that level of openness from the clients required an “off the record” forum.
We do appreciate the feedback (here and your thoughtful comment on Hurst’s blog) and are actively working to find the right approach for all our events and activities.
[...] The Sanctimonious-sphere is all up in arms because Nielsen BuzzMetrics asked attendees of their CGM summit this week not to blog. I attended the summit, and I respected their request not to blog — and I think the request was perfectly reasonable. Why? Because it wasn’t an open “conference” — it was a private client user group for heaven sake! Every day thousands of companies hold private meetings with groups of their clients and nobody expects them to broadcast a live feed. [...]
I see the person you’re writing about has provided motivating info already….
Just because a conference is about user-generated content, doesn’t mean that the conference needs to be public info itself. Most books about baking aren’t printed on dough, for instance.
Jeff, I think you were led by the nose to outrage here. We need to question the authority of *whatever* media figures tell us, whether corporate or casual.
[...] The mindless NBC/Global new show 1 vs. 100 is a fun show to watch. Whereas it is plainly sad to watch the controversy created by Nielsen BuzzMetrics‘ decision to ban the “consumer generated media” conference attendees from blogging. As an unintended consequence, Nielsen has successfully created its show entitled “100+ vs. the world of bloggers”. [...]
[...] href=”http://gregverdino.typepad.com/greg_verdinos_blog/2006/10/social_media_fi.html”>won’t allow blogging. Can Nielsen perhaps measure the high irony and low IQ in that? [via Rubel] Some followup on the kerfuffle about Nielsen closing a conference about “consumer generated media” to blogging: See a very reasonable suggestion from Greg Verdino, whose post started all this. This was what I’d hoped we’d hear from the Nielsen folks, instead of back-up-against-the-wall argument. But as a CGM Summit attendee, I still believe that there was plenty of non-proprietary content that could be shared by bloggers without adversely impacting BuzzMetrics, its clients or other event participants. And it is possible to balance on-the-record and off — it didn’t have to be all or nothing. . . . [...]
October 28th, 2006 at 4:02 pm
“Can Nielsen perhaps measure the high irony and low IQ in that?” Measuring THAT will be a tough and unsavory!
October 28th, 2006 at 7:55 pm
It’s easier to collect from a couple of big nuts than a million little ones.
October 29th, 2006 at 10:11 am
Jeff,
I posted a detailed comment about this on my own blog, and invite you to check it out. In summary: this particular event was primarily our customers sharing their case studies with one another, and that level of openness from the clients required an “off the record” forum.
We do appreciate the feedback (here and your thoughtful comment on Hurst’s blog) and are actively working to find the right approach for all our events and activities.
October 29th, 2006 at 12:55 pm
[...] The Sanctimonious-sphere is all up in arms because Nielsen BuzzMetrics asked attendees of their CGM summit this week not to blog. I attended the summit, and I respected their request not to blog — and I think the request was perfectly reasonable. Why? Because it wasn’t an open “conference” — it was a private client user group for heaven sake! Every day thousands of companies hold private meetings with groups of their clients and nobody expects them to broadcast a live feed. [...]
October 29th, 2006 at 4:23 pm
And who do they think they are charging for the conference? Actually we should do away with money!! And property… how outmoded is that?
Jeff,
Teasing you, of course.
- Amanda
PS As I see it, you’ve got boundary issues. Also, “control” seems to haunt you. I am guessing you had an overbearing mother.
October 30th, 2006 at 8:18 pm
I see the person you’re writing about has provided motivating info already….
Just because a conference is about user-generated content, doesn’t mean that the conference needs to be public info itself. Most books about baking aren’t printed on dough, for instance.
Jeff, I think you were led by the nose to outrage here. We need to question the authority of *whatever* media figures tell us, whether corporate or casual.
October 31st, 2006 at 1:32 am
[...] The mindless NBC/Global new show 1 vs. 100 is a fun show to watch. Whereas it is plainly sad to watch the controversy created by Nielsen BuzzMetrics‘ decision to ban the “consumer generated media” conference attendees from blogging. As an unintended consequence, Nielsen has successfully created its show entitled “100+ vs. the world of bloggers”. [...]
October 31st, 2006 at 7:51 am
[...] href=”http://gregverdino.typepad.com/greg_verdinos_blog/2006/10/social_media_fi.html”>won’t allow blogging. Can Nielsen perhaps measure the high irony and low IQ in that? [via Rubel] Some followup on the kerfuffle about Nielsen closing a conference about “consumer generated media” to blogging: See a very reasonable suggestion from Greg Verdino, whose post started all this. This was what I’d hoped we’d hear from the Nielsen folks, instead of back-up-against-the-wall argument. But as a CGM Summit attendee, I still believe that there was plenty of non-proprietary content that could be shared by bloggers without adversely impacting BuzzMetrics, its clients or other event participants. And it is possible to balance on-the-record and off — it didn’t have to be all or nothing. . . . [...]
October 31st, 2006 at 9:36 pm
Verdino’s a bright guy. The conversation needed to be had and I’m proud of him for having the stones to initiate it.