Comments on: True Experts Aren’t Self-Proclaimed

By: Modern Print

Modern Print — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 19:29:00 +0000

Please keep up the good work.

By: jasondrohn

jasondrohn — Wed, 06 May 2009 13:30:07 +0000

That is awesome! What is Django exactly? I can code a lot of stuff, but haven't looked into Django much yet..

By: Andreas Nurbo

Andreas Nurbo — Wed, 06 May 2009 13:23:31 +0000

That site I would consider still in the making. Its a little wishy washy at the moment. Will pickup this week. A projects launch date was rescheduled to an earlier date and just rescheduled again to a later date. So I've been very busy.

When it comes to WordPress I write plugins. I'll be releasing a Google Website optimizer plugin to some beta tester this week or rather a alpha version. Probably another Google related plugin after that one. I got a list with various plugin ideas/concepts.

Other than that I'm currently on working a Django project that will be in Swedish and for the Swedish market and another Django site that handles tracking of various stuff. The tracking site is just that I extract a current tracking system onto its own site. Currently focusing on the tracking site.
Can't spread yourself to thin.

By: jasondrohn

jasondrohn — Tue, 05 May 2009 13:20:38 +0000

LOL – Thanks for clearing that up Andreas :0) I agree with the auto follow software comment.

What is it you do? I visited your site – you program and do some marketing. Do you do theme design or are you into plugins? Or custom apps? I'm interested..

By: Andreas Nurbo

Andreas Nurbo — Tue, 05 May 2009 11:47:59 +0000

Yeah I know what your point was. I was just messing with you.
There is indeed a lot of experts on Twitter and Twitter experts. People with less than 100 followers and that sell Become Twitter god ebooks.
From looking at the bots that follow me I would say there is almost a 1:1 ratio between those that call themselves social media experts and that use auto-follow software =).

I'm totally unknown but still consider myself an expert. Thats the problem with working in the shadows but I'm slowly emerging =).

By: jasondrohn

jasondrohn — Mon, 04 May 2009 22:46:02 +0000

As long as you back it up – that's fine. Other people perceive you to be an expert. I was mainly talking about those who have an introductory understanding of a topic and tell everyone they're experts. There are a lot of those people out there.

When I first started working for myself, I was hesitant at calling myself an expert. I was worried that if anyone ever asked me a question and I couldn't answer it, my reputation would be in jeopardy. Now, six years later, I can admittedly say I was stumped once. But I still don't know everything. No one does.

I guess what I was trying to say is expert status is something that people think of you, which leads to you thinking that about yourself… That's all..

By: Andreas Nurbo

Andreas Nurbo — Mon, 04 May 2009 21:41:44 +0000

I say I'm a wordpress expert because that is what I consider myself to be. I also try to back my claims by providing help to those that ask. So far so good.
There are tons of expert calling themselves experts but not necessarily using the word expert.
Like for example
"We show you the best way to market your business, day after day." (From your about page

Calling yourself an expert is never a problem if you can back it up.
Can you? =)