Comments on: Malcolm Gladwell doesn’t tweet

By: Colleen

Colleen — Fri, 29 Oct 2010 18:29:26 +0000

Hey Handsome Giorgio,
You certainly "said it well" as far as I'm concerned! So nice to see you "youngsters, activists, movers and shakers" speak coherently!!. I remember you "beating" me in a race when you were 5 years old…and then again when I rode a bike and you beat me, running.

By: george

george — Tue, 26 Oct 2010 22:44:00 +0000

In reply to jdlasica. We love to see our DoSomething Award winners out there!

By: jdlasica

jdlasica — Mon, 25 Oct 2010 21:26:17 +0000

In reply to george.

Oh, Lordy. The dreaded social media ROI.

BTW, I was reading Nicolas Kristoff's piece in the New York Times Magazine yesterday, nice mention of DoSomething in his DIY Foreign Aid article:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/24/magazine/24volu…

By: george

george — Mon, 25 Oct 2010 19:53:37 +0000

In reply to Nolan Tully. True- I think the quantifiable measures Gladwell looks for are near impossible to capture as it relates to breadth of causes impacted by this level + scale of communication.

By: Nolan Tully

Nolan Tully — Mon, 25 Oct 2010 18:43:28 +0000

George – Great article as usual. I haven't read Gladwell's article yet, so any portion of this comment hereafter can justifiably be criticized as uninformed. The comparison to the civil rights movement seems ridiculous, simply because Facebook and other social movements have been used to organize many "fundamental rights" type movements. I think the gay rights movement is perhaps the most glaring example. Nevertheless, the comparison seems even less apt in the context of size. Facebook's impact is far beyond one issue, and expands into the daily lives of people worldwide.