Sunday, April 17, 2011
Professionalism or name calling?
When you are tied to name product, service or an organization where the community sees you as a "leader" you are an extension of that name recognition. Abusing that name recognition does not help. Going onto a public (as opposed to private) online discussion group (e.g. Facebook, YouTube comments, discussion groups, etc) and addressing people you do not agree or don't like you call them names instead. As leaders or "leaders" as in this case, such attitudes WILL reflect poorly on a product, service or organization as a whole. And in this case, I call on the poor professionalism on some of the "leaders" in Deafhood Foundation. If they are unable to address people by their proper names then it's best to say those things in private and not online in full public view for all to see.
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When I decided to develop the Deafhood's Rumor Rats page, I did that with a purpose in mind. The purpose is to reduce the impact of vloggers that have ended up on that particular page. It also reflects my brand and my ambition to reduce the impact of the rumor rat vloggers. Am I getting disrespect for that? Yes and I can live with that since the disrespect is coming from the losing side of the deaf evolution. If they say that the Rumor Rats page reflects my unprofessional side, so what. It's producing the results I expect from it.
I can only agree that the deafhood elitists have decided to treat your blog identity with egregious disrespect.
Furthermore their lethargic silence on the fact I'm them one who invented the IP relay protocols reflects the deafhood elitists' egregious disrespect for me as a deaf leader.
The best way for me to respond is to simply stand as a mirror just reflecting the same disrespect back to them with the Rumor Rats page.
We are living in a tit for tat world, living through a social war, and standing a field of changes. And we can see that the definition of professionalism has lost its boundaries.
Mike speaking of using people's proper names - did you know it's Bobbie Beth Scoggins, not Beth Scoggins? just wondered if you did that on purpose. ;)
Mr. McConnell, I happened to look at some of your youtube videos. I had noticed that some of the upload had names of kokonutty. Did you put that name there while you were loading the videos into the youtube? Is this how the Deaf Society picked up your name and decided to call you such as? The one I saw with To Deaf Jeff (I believed).
WisDeaf
anony @ 11:12 AM,
Yes, I did that on purpose only because that was all I remembered at time when I did my one shot video of myself. I knew she has three names but only remembered her as "Beth Scoggins." BTW, if you're suggesting that saying "Beth Scoggins" is name calling then you're desperately grasping at straws here. Don't go there.
mcconnell
Wisdeaf, that is the YouTube channel name. And, no, saying "kookynut" or "kookynuts" isn't a misspelling attributed to my other YouTube channel name as "kokonutty." That'd be pretty obvious on their intent to call me names by saying "kookynuts." They'd be obvious on their intent if they call me as "kokonutty" and act naive about it thinking they can get away from it. They have always known me as "kokonut," "kokonut pundit" or as "Mike McConnell." Any other names using variations of the word "kokonut" on their part would in fact show them to be dishonest people.
It lacks professionalism and goes without saying. really. From the beginning when I started to blog (before Candy) I have always addressed people by their first name. It is good manners. goes without saying. ;)
And I have continued minding my manners. When things got hot online, I have noticed certain people have resorted to name callings or changing the correct way of spelling a persons name, such as recently when Richard Eckert misspelled my name on purpose at Patti's blog. Instead of getting into discussions. It is as if that was their point. It was all they got. The best they could do. And, it would have been better if they could have contributed to the discussion. :/
For so long I have minded my manners. Until not too long ago, I thought...well that individual need to have a taste of her medicine. So, I referred that persons site as the toxic red glow. Regardless of what the original intentions were, It didn't feel good to stoop to their level and I have minded my manners again, since that slip. We are human, and even so...when someone makes a mistake - it is meant to be a lesson learned. As It was for me and this post serves as a reminder. Good post Mike. And, thank you!
However, it appears some people did not learn and they constantly do not mind their manners. Common sense dictates the difference between group/organization and the individual. Respect, afterall, goes both ways.
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