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My mother always used to say to me “if you can’t say anything nice about someone, then don’t say anything at all”. It was one of those sayings that old people like parents liked to constantly drill into you.

Now that I’m a parent, saying this to my 4 and 6 year olds is about as effective as Britney Spears is at staying checked into any one of the random “clinics” in Beverley Hills. Or something like that.

A couple of posts below this is my re-cap of my time with Seth Godin in New York. Because Seth had set the “ground rules” in previous emails, it was clear to me that if I was to post about his get together, then I needed permission. Which I got.

Just because the net has made the world we live and work in a “boundary-less” environment, doesn’t mean that common manners shouldn’t prevail. Thank you still goes a long way - even in cyber space.

Bloggers like Avinash are fantastic at responding to comments on his blog. He even follows up with personal emails. He’s presenting at Blog World in Vegas in November later this year. There’ll be thousands upon thousands there. And I bet if you were in the audience and wrote to Avinash to ask him a question or request a copy of the slides, he’d respond. Because that’s what he did with me when I saw him way back earlier this year at the Web 2.0 Expo.

It’s the attention to detail, the follow up, the setting the ground rules that sets the standard - even in the blogosphere.

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