Comments on: Being Seth Godin

By: Caleb

Caleb — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 23:54:47 +0000

Anytime we step into a similar mind-frame/set as somone else, we will definitely begin to pull from the same thought sphere. I know this may sound a bit esoteric,but it's true. Notice how ppl in the same fields(who are serious about it of course) seem to stumble upon the same ideas at almost the same time? This is the phenomena of socializing with like minds...you truly build. This happens all the time. For example musicians will often create a piece that someone else already created or was about to create without the two even knowing each other! Just look at how many post topics are similar in the blogosphere...surely they all can't be copycatting. Calebs last blog post..ClickBank TopSites Review

By: Jack Humphrey

Jack Humphrey — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 17:24:10 +0000

@Tim – I HOPE what happens is people listen to the message! I didn’t write that up to make me look smart. I really know first-hand what a solid tribe can do for your business.

One of the biggest tribes on the web centered on a personal blog is at Dooce.com.
Heather sure knows what it means to have more than casual followers of your work. My hope is that the message is taken seriously and acted upon by as many people as possible.

By: Tim Judge

Tim Judge — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 04:02:55 +0000

Jack Back when I was in college for those 11 years :0 I wrote a piece for an English class about the Gen Xers. That very morning as luck would have it a small column in the Wall Street Journal came out with an article 85% like mine. Thank God the "school" papers didn't get delivered until 9am and my paper was due at 830! I gave a copy of the article to my English professor (not a daily reader), he said I could use my finance degree and go write for the WSJ! HA So what happens when 2 tribes collide?? And their fearless leaders are preaching the same message? Tim Judges last blog post..Make Money With Continuity

By: Jack Humphrey

Jack Humphrey — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 20:04:28 +0000

Maybe then what he coined is the use of Tribes and leadership as they relate to blogs? I have to confess I didn’t do much, or any, digging really to find out who first developed the tribes concept related to marketing and leadership.

I just know what a hot button the word “coined” can be and I’m sorry to have used it in the past because there’s always someone who can come up with examples of how others have used language, concepts and ideas before us.

Kind of like how everyone sneers when they say “Al Gore invented the internet.”

I don’t, and I know Seth sure doesn’t want to be associated in that way, and so maybe I did him a disservice there.

What I am fairly sure about is that Seth’s tribes stuff in relation to bloggers is one of the more important recent works on the theme.

I don’t have any other examples because I didn’t do my homework. I really did my post out of my own head in one take and had been meaning to do a tribe post for awhile. And I had gotten behind on my Seth blog reading in the last few weeks.

By: Kyle Stich

Kyle Stich — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 17:48:01 +0000

Oh, man! My gut just sunk. Sorry that this will be a negative comment, but I was hoping that people would be able to see Seth’s “Tribes” book for what it is – an articulation of Seth’s observations regarding the leadership roles that bloggers assume.

Seth did NOT coin the term “tribes.” He appropriated it. The term and the ideas existed well before Seth wrote about them in a book. Along with his smarmy “Nobody Cares About You” clip from an interview, his attempt to act like the originator of the idea of tribes caused me to leave Seth’s “tribe.

Once again, I’m sorry for the negativity of this post, but I can’t stand seeing this guy get more credit than he deserves. He has clout and knows how to take full advantage of his clout. For that I applaud him. BTW, I enjoyed YOUR tribes post.

By: Jack Humphrey

Jack Humphrey — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 02:58:52 +0000

By the way, how come you’re the only one who noticed Seth was the first one to comment on this post?

By: Jack Humphrey

Jack Humphrey — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 02:57:28 +0000

Gary – I think what you’re saying is its all Seth’s fault! I like the way you think. If he’d kept quiet about this whole tribe thing there wouldn’t have been this overlap making me look like a punk by appearing to ride his coat tails!

Yep, Seth Godin is making me look bad!

By: Gary McElwain

Gary McElwain — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 02:13:58 +0000

Coincidence? I think not! How cool is that Jack, you write a post possibly from your subconcious And the creator of that thought shows up to comment on your creativity that he subliminally instilled in your thinking. Lost track of my thinking (the Browns just intercepted the ball again) Now if they could just score big. Kind of like getting Seth Godin to comment on your blog! Gary McElwain Gary McElwains last blog post..Two Guy's, 10 Steps, and 1 Reason to Color Your Way to Success

By: Jack Humphrey

Jack Humphrey — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 19:25:05 +0000

@Cath – I don’t know, but it sure beats email!

By: Cath Lawson

Cath Lawson — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 19:10:04 +0000

Hi Jack – I love when this happens – two people thinking or writing the same thing at the same time. Is it telepathy, or are we all getting our ideas sent from some planet we’ve never heard of?