Comments on: Titles Are As Meaningless As Ever

By: Jason Finch

Jason Finch — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 16:48:18 +0000

I call myself a retail specialist and a blended networking evangelist. It just sums up what I have experience in and what I do. I think ‘social media expert’ and ‘online entrepreneur’ have become pretty meaningless. I’ve been running one of the UK’s major (profitable!) niche online/offline blended social networks since 1995 so *could* call myself a social media expert *and* an online entrepreneur, but so what – I far prefer to evangelise about blended networking that hype up any connection to a pretty old school idea like ‘social media’… that’s surely just a replacement for the awful ‘Web 2.0′ and *so* 2005 ;)

By: Tony

Tony — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 01:09:20 +0000

Adam, you inspire an interesting debate – are titles too restricting in a professional and creative environment?

By: Tim Jahn

Tim Jahn — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 15:30:47 +0000

Titles have always been a pet peeve of mine. 99.9% of the time they’re meaningless.

As you said, experience, reputation, and credibility matter more than any crazy 43 world title.

By: Julius Kuhn-Regnier

Julius Kuhn-Regnier — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 21:46:32 +0000

I totally agree with you Adam in what is meaningless on the Internet and I think one of the best measures to see whether a blog is a good one is to look at the comments. Not actually at the number of comments but the quality, i.e. how related they are to the topic and whether they add to the conversation etc. Take a look at copyblogger.com, they only receive quality comments.

Anyway great article ;)

By: Internet Strategist

Internet Strategist — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 20:54:31 +0000

LOL. I know Adam. I was simply expressing how I feel now about calling myself an Internet Strategist compared to how perfectly I originally thought that title fit what I do.

Great post – and thanks for the link to Website Grader. Awesome tool!