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Mark Twain Wisdom

July 5th, 2007 Posted in Building Community

I just found a fantastic quote from …of all people… Mark Twain:

"The public is the only critic whose opinion is worth anything at all."

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Pieter Ardinois

Nice one!
Yesterday started to read 'The Cult of The Amateur'. I'm sure you didn't get this one from the book ;-)

captain flummox

He's got a million of 'em, and he's dead. Turns out, most of them keep pretty well.

Jake McKee

Nope, not at all from The Cult...

I think Keen's version of this quote would be:

"The paid professionals are the only critics whose opinion is worth anything at all."

:)

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Jake McKee is the Chief Strategy Officer and Ant Wrangler at Ant's Eye View, a customer experience strategy practice focused on helping clients escalate their customer experience. With a rich background in customer collaboration, online communities, and fan groups, and Web development, community management, and product development, Jake helps organizations understand how to act like groups of people, rather than soulless money making machines.

In a past life, Jake was the Global Community Relations Specialist for the LEGO Company, where he spent five years on the front lines of customer-company interaction.