Super cool Steve Woodruff asked me if I’d guest post for his kick-butt Five in the Morning series. And since I’d probably eat sawdust if Steve asked me to, here are a few posts that ran across that I think you should see, too, as part of my “Anything But Another Twitter Post” episode of FITM:

Kellye Crane has a fantastic guest post at Kami Huyse’s Communication Overtones. She makes a careful distinction between that dreaded word “messaging” and truly valuable messages. I like her take.

Beth Kanter has yet another substantive post, this time about the ROI of online communities, and by that she means Return on Insight. (I’m especially keen on this topic given my new jobby job.) She’s been writing some killer stuff lately about the value of listening and engagement, so a stroll back through her previous posts is time well spent.

Liz Strauss has a gift sometimes for getting straight to the heart of something that many folks are thinking but can’t manage to articulate. She does it again here, where she asks how you trust someone you can’t see.

Jonathan Kranz makes a hell of a lot of sense over on the MarketingProfs Daily Fix when he says that marketers are the problem when we’re creating “relationships” when there might not be any. I’ve seen this more than once.

And for last, something completely different. Jon Swanson. Moving, articulate, wise. Reverberant silence. Go read.

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Thanks, Steve, for letting me share this week. Hope you slept in. 🙂

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