photo by Greg Beadle © 2008 - http://www.gregbeadle.com The latest season of So You Think You Can Dance prompted me to compare certain elements about making a career in dance with making it in Social Media (SM). Yeah, may be a bit of a stretch. But hear me out. Here are some thoughts: Choreography to SM Skill … Continue reading So you think you can Social Media?
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Ode to Twitter
for months at social sea, unyielding to cacophony of twitter dees and twitter dumbs a chanted mantra bit by byte by sprite, like strands of loaded wind a wiz awizzing by vibrating ears, vibrating tears of agony and ecstasy, yes even that recycled shamelessly to blog a post and post a blog and blog myself into a … Continue reading Ode to Twitter
Filtering – a thorny path to awareness
Despite the nature (and brute power) of the social media beast to propagate at break-neck speed, the onus remains on us to filter through the barrage of information. To benefit from the ubiquitous advantage of real-time access to information, we must be able to make sense of it all; and do so ideally, at the … Continue reading Filtering – a thorny path to awareness
Do you follow?
Recently I've managed to successfully convince friends to join Twitter, despite their deer-in-the-headlights reaction. I've also been privileged by follows from complete strangers, mostly entrepreneurs and professionals, who I know enjoy and benefit from the level of engaged interaction we have and try to maintain on a regular basis. Obviously interaction is key to social … Continue reading Do you follow?