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While attendng a women’s lecture luncheon yesterday, I mentioned “weblogs” to a few people in the pre-lecture chatting time. At functions where I think there are less internet-savvy folks, I use “blogs” and “weblogs” interchangeably. I usually get “What are weblogs/blogs?” and I go into my elevator speech about blogs. It’s scary how much I can blather about them if given half a chance, although I try to start with just a quick sentence or two.

Well yesterday I got the usual “What are weblogs?” But in both cases, the person went on to ask, “Is that like a blog?”

Woo-hoo!

Twice people said that they’d heard about blogs, although both weren’t 100% sure of what they were. One woman had looked at a few, and read the blog of a sales coach who had recently added a blog to her site.

The other, a woman maybe in her late 20’s, early 30’s started telling me about this band she was following, and how a blog sounded sort of like what the band had.

I asked if the site was on MySpace.

She said she knew about MySpace, but the band’s site wasn’t there, and that the conversation on the site was called a “vine.”

I’ve never heard of that term before. I’m going to email her and ask her for more information. The lecture was starting so I didn’t have a change to continue the conversation.

I’m encouraged that the term is slowly filtering through to more people (Realtors and mortgage lenders, in this case). And it reminds me that people care less about what things are called and more about what they can do for them — help them communicate with a band and fellow fans, or read articles by a sales coach.