{"id":19,"date":"2006-12-24T00:01:25","date_gmt":"2006-12-24T00:01:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mblair.net\/marketing\/websites-are-conversations-2\/"},"modified":"2007-02-06T00:35:07","modified_gmt":"2007-02-06T08:35:07","slug":"websites-are-conversations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mblair.net\/websites-are-conversations\/","title":{"rendered":"Websites are conversations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mblair.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/owl.jpg\" class=\"alignright off\" alt=\"Purple Owl\" title=\"What are you pointing at? You've never seen a purple owl?\" \/>I was walking down a dusty road trying to get somewhere. I could hear the traffic from the nearby interstate, but couldn\u2019t see any cars.  I walked past an oak tree of some kind. The tree was aged from the weather and was scraggly from lack of care. Sitting on a low hanging branch, was a purple owl.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhy are you purple?\u201d I asked.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNever mind that,\u201d The owl retorted. \u201cI\u2019ve got something more important to tell you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat\u2019s that?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWebsites are conversations.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<h3>Conversations?<\/h3>\n<p>I was in a hurry and didn\u2019t have time to talk then, and so I invited the owl over to my caf\u00e9. He arrived the following Tuesday. I brought a couple of tall lattes over to our table and he explained what he meant.<\/p>\n<p>To be concise, as I know your time is limited, the owl told me that:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>The key to a successful website is intimacy.<\/li>\n<li>The most successful websites do more listening than they do talking.<\/li>\n<li>Non verbal communication is often more important than what is explicitly said.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>I know this all sounds a little odd but a blog has to start somewhere.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was walking down a dusty road trying to get somewhere. I could hear the traffic from the nearby interstate, but couldn\u2019t see any cars. I walked past an oak tree of some kind. The tree was aged from the weather and was scraggly from lack of care. Sitting on a low hanging branch, was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mblair.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mblair.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mblair.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mblair.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mblair.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mblair.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mblair.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mblair.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mblair.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}