Jayme, you really made me rethink how I was handling my connections. You make excellent points online and off. I am still in deep think over my goals for the future. I know that Triberr is part of that and I wish that I could go to NYC for the meetup.

Maybe we should get Dino and Dan to do a live stream from the event. Supposedly there is a big announcement involved.

I love Triberr! Thank you for inviting me to it and yes, I am planning to have a tribe of my own and use it more. 

Thank you!

I love your passion for Triberr, Jayme :)

And.. Okay, so I'm finally on Triberr, and part of my first Tribe (Andi-Roo's), but I still feel kind of lost. Maybe it's cuz I'm swamped with social media communities, and dont end up researching any in depth :P

Ah Jayme, I was not a victim of your freethinking but a lucky recipient... :) 

I've been a Triberr fan, since I was first invited into the PR Justice League by @EricaAllison I'm not in any "monster" tribes, so I don't know the dynamics there, but I think small tribes actually allow you to form very strong relationships. It's how you and I first got to know one another.

I like your bullet points. I will say that I don't really care about how influential someone is as much as the nature of their content. It has to be something that fits with what I tend to share and what I think followers would expect.

I prefer to call it being thoughtful and willing to jump back on board once those early, early kinks were worked out. You might recall, my sweets, I brought you on that train with me as I jumped back on board.

You know the main reason for my loyalty to Triberr? @dino_dogan  and Dan! They are #RockHot in their ability to listen, take the good with the bad, and work it out. Very proud of them!

Now, on the effectiveness of your tribes, they can become stuck if we're not careful. Present company included. I've long thought it's a good idea to shake up your tribes. Swap members or hop around from time to time (minds out of the gutter, people), just to keep your twitter feed from looking like a cast from the Who's Who of Marketing and PR peeps or the usual suspects from any one topic. 

I think change is a good thing and Dan and Dino are Aces at that one!

Thanks to Team Blogjack! @Kaarina you get the gold for this one!

Wait, did I miss the train? They said to be here by 1, and I'm early!

So I'm starting my own tribe. Let's just say I'm experimenting with Triberr. I'm interested in joining with bloggers who have marketing smarts, but I don't want to talk primarily to the community of bloggers or the community of marketing people.

I'm happy to trade comments with bloggers I respect. But I also want to reach and engage business owners and managers who will benefit from our experience.

So there. 

Hey Jayme,

Good post. Great thoughts.

Listen, I am part of one of your tribes and I am certainly thankful for that but I have to say that I get more from the engagement on the blogs I visit than from Triberr. Having access to my community via Triberr is great but I am really only part of two tribes and the RT's are not really helping me that much. It seems kind of automatic. My sense was that a tribe was there to support each other and not just RT each other's content. Who knows, maybe my stuff is just crap.

I feel I have an obligation as part of my Triberr communities to share, visit and support regardless of what the content is. That's what I signed on for. Making a more discernible choice is certainly an option with future engagements but the question remains "how do you know that you will have a reciprocal relationship?".

The suggestions you have made are valid to me but I have to ask, can being too selective present a considerable challenge? Like Bill said the echo chamber is huge and quite frankly, in my 18 months of blogging experience (very little by some standards), I find it also fairly fickle. Today's echo is not going to be tomorrow's echo. Finding the unique thinkers who stay on the leading edge may be like finding a needle in a haystack.

I say make friends and share knowledge across disciplines. That's the way I have found that we all can learn a lot from each other. All that feeds into being strategic about the choices you make on who to stick with so good on ya for taking a stand.

Otherwise, just be social. Nothing wrong with that either.

Huh? So are you saying you will only belong to tribes with the 'right' people in it? And are you also saying you will only promote the 'dynamic' posts w/in your tribe so as not to contribute to the echo chamber? You do know how big that echo chamber is, right? Is it worth trying to be that 'fine?' Will it make any difference? Will it bring you fame and fortune? 

Why don't you be that 'influencer?'

I'm just asking; sounds like a whole bunch of strategery that will barely make a ripple in the pond. If someone wants to pimp my stuff, fine; if not, that's fine too. If you are in my tribe you will get pimped even if you do a post on the benefits of furniture polish.

I won't see Dino in NY, but plan on seeing him in Orlando this month on the 17th; with Mr Toporek.  Then I will be able to discover the secret sauce.........

that was indeed a fruitful convo. And thnx for being with this all this time, Jayme. You are awesome :-)