Comments on: Three Kinds Of Social Media Losers: Charlatans, Sharks, And Geeks http://blog.bradrourke.com/2009/07/13/three-kinds-of-social-media-losers-charlatans-sharks-and-geeks/ Thoughts for leaders where new media meets public life. Fri, 03 Feb 2012 08:27:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Guy LeCharles Gonzalez http://blog.bradrourke.com/2009/07/13/three-kinds-of-social-media-losers-charlatans-sharks-and-geeks/comment-page-1/#comment-263 Guy LeCharles Gonzalez Mon, 13 Jul 2009 18:08:31 +0000 http://blog.bradrourke.com/?p=1218#comment-263 Ah, 1996! I was a self-proclaimed HTML guru for about 15 minutes that year -- mostly of the geek variety, with a dash of wannabe charlatan -- and actually built a handful of websites, mostly for myself and friends. I very quickly realized there was a difference between an avid user and an expert, though, when an almost-client made some very reasonable design requests that I had no idea how to do. Can it be that it was all so simple then? ;-) Ah, 1996! I was a self-proclaimed HTML guru for about 15 minutes that year — mostly of the geek variety, with a dash of wannabe charlatan — and actually built a handful of websites, mostly for myself and friends. I very quickly realized there was a difference between an avid user and an expert, though, when an almost-client made some very reasonable design requests that I had no idea how to do.

Can it be that it was all so simple then? ;-)

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