I see a lot of actions and words taken by influencers on back channels and on the public interwebs. Sometimes I act like a diva as well and spout some nastiness online, but I always try to come back to earth, and clean it up. Safeway is my local grocery store. MORE

OK, this is more of a back channel nasty one. So why is it social media seems to propel us back to high school behavior? by Beth Harte and Geoff Livingston. The anti-social media guru meme received a death wish from Shel Holtz last week. MORE

But any time there’s a new trend, tactic, or channel, this collaboration turns to competition. Open dialogue gives way to back-channel alliance building. Social Media has a claim because much of the content is created for social media channels. MORE

In essence, social media and instant messaging forms a massive TV back channel, empowering people to talk about a program as it airs. Programmers see this as an opportunity to engage the audience on the back channel with value added content and live interaction. MORE

The result is the creation of a back channel process to invigorate the presentation. This post is by Chris Urena, Director of Development at CommPartners. MORE

Barbs on the "Back Channel" that don't help move the conversation along in a win-win for the audience and speaker is a clue that you want all the candy for yourself. Friday Fun is Diva Marketing's virtual happy hour from cosmos to Jack to lemonade. MORE

It is a consistent back channel (and increasingly public) conversation. A Book of Five Rings , written by Miyamoto Musashi in 1645, is one of the world’s classic sources of strategy. MORE

A colleague has been struggling with some negative talk on the back channel, and asked me how I deal with it. Image by rebekaburgess. When someone slights me, I use that resentment to drive me further, finish hard projects, go the extra mile, and get up when I fail. MORE

Do you think this whole social TV, whether it’s American Idol or Super Bowl or what have you, this back channel, we’re watching it with one eye, we’re tweeting it with the other eye, is that ultimately a good thing? It got a rise out of the Twitter back channel. MORE

Everything will be done in the open, encouraging participation, contribution, and truthfulness and discouraging passive-aggressive behavior, back channel discussions, and hidden agendas. Other channels include more traditional “Web 1.0″, MORE

To me, the people tweeting about a show are already watching the show , so the Twitter-fueled “back channel” surrounding the show may result in additional loyalty and/or visits to the show’s website/Facebook page/SnapChat account etc., MORE

The back channel is full of stories about big A-List names, New York Times bestselling authors (note the plural) that when hired crashed and burned. Image by Graymalkn. MORE

Both GroupMe and Beluga were quite interesting, but GroupMe was easier to use , allowing for quick group set up, and back channel conversations within the company. Pre-order Geoff Livingston’s Welcome to the Fifth Estate today! MORE

The Twitter back channel ( #defragcon ) went nearly silent as a roomful of bright people struggled to keep up with a firehose of big ideas. Yeah, I'll be back. I mentioned earlier that I would again make the trip to Colorado for Defrag. MORE

We are particularly interested in the physical organization of attention and distraction as audience members at a lecture or conference interact with one another across multiple channels and sites. How users engage with these communication channels determines the parameters of the situation. MORE

The microblogging network, err information service, hasn’t looked back. The concept of PR serving as the ombudsman goes back several decades. The airline went back to the drawing board and created its now current seating system, A, B and C priority seating. MORE

Do you think this whole social TV, whether it’s American Idol or Super Bowl or what have you, this back channel, we’re watching it with one eye, we’re tweeting it with the other eye, is that ultimately a good thing? It got a rise out of the Twitter back channel. MORE

A colleague has been struggling with some negative talk on the back channel and asked me how I deal with it. Image by rebekaburgess. When someone slights me, I use that resentment to drive me further, finish hard projects, go the extra mile, and get up when I fail. MORE

The customer in the back of the line has a Klout score of 75, the customer in the middle of the line has a Klout score of 17. Where I think I took my blog post today, sort of over the line a little bit, was that I likened social profiling of basically hearkening back to Jeremiah’s post. MORE

Publicly everyone listens, privately they get dismissed on the back channel as a hater or worse. Image by Rain. So why do serial complainers lose credibility on and offline? MORE

Now for the back story. First I want to quote a paragraph from the abstract of a 2011 paper by danah boyd , a renowned expert on teen culture and social media at Microsoft Research. The paper is titled, The Drama! Teen Conflict, Gossip, and Bullying in Networked Publics. MORE

Back-channel emails are a wonderful thing. A couple of CEOs have pointed out how few of the vendors ever featured in Forrester's reports on social media analysis are still independent. So, in the spirit of the filmmaker who's not sure how to end a movie, let's roll the "where are they now?" The first report in the space was Peter Kim's Forrester Wave: Brand Monitoring (September 2006), which introduced us to seven companies: Biz360 Acquired by Attensity in 2010. MORE

There are so many people to thank for spreading the word publicly, as well as private back channel encouragement, it’s impossible to thank them all. MORE

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Conferences and Meetups Back in 2007, I followed the back-channel conversation at the NewComm Forum using Internet Relay Chat ( IRC ). Now, of course, the back channel is always Twitter, and it sometimes threatens to overwhelm the front channel (the person on stage). MORE

This is a great opportunity to thank everyone who has encouraged me since I first announce my intent to publish the book, particularly those who signed up for advance copies and chatted with me on back channels. Jason looked at George, and they both looked back at Hector. MORE

It got back to brass tacks: Do the work, refine your skills, then build the reputation. Make sure you are busting your ass on the back channel, too. It’s funny how some people feel an online profile is the most important part of their career today. MORE