Archives for: March 2009

Social Networking.. and the research

Quickly the introduction of Online Social Networking has become a time captivating interest.
It was a moment last year, while I was approaching one of the local high schools about starting an Ultimate team. I asked if one of the students would be the liaison at the school, to relieve my need from being present for all communications. Everyone pointed to one boy in the class. When I asked him for his email address, his head cocked and his nose wrinkled, “I don’t really check my email much anymore.” When I asked how he stayed in touch and communicated with his friends he said, “All my friends are on facebook now. I only use email for old people.”
Let me clarify that I am enjoying the aging process.. I intend to increase the amount of attention to contribution that I will make as I age. The maturation of a human into an elder is a beautiful something. That said, It is the younger generations that I most want to impact. The result was signing up for Facebook. Since then, I have had multiple people tell me, “Follow me on Twitter.” I think it was @christinekane who caused the tipping point.

Now, the level of my email box is finally receding. The leftovers include my folks and some of the “too busy to save time” typeofpeople... bless their hearts.

Now, I barely even blog. Its all micro sized blogs. 140 characters and I am done. All except on Present.ly. I LOVE THIS SERVICE!! It includes all the microblogging characteristics with the advent of an additional text box that, I think, is unlimited. Ontopofthat, it is a private network.. and I am utilizing it for business relations (as the www.HatchAsheville.com Volunteer Coordinator, with www.BuildSmartAlliance.com and a project I call Distributed Executive Business Development)

Microblogging stops the urge (that, at this moment, I am taking the liberty to express) toward verbosity. It forces the communication into tiny compartment sized mouthfuls. And this requires creativity for those birds who have alot to say (right @FakerParis and @THE_REAL_SHAQ )... and they still find ways to exercise their verbose natures. Much love to truncation.

Time for breakfast. Can’t tweet anymore for the morning.

posted by Brett Email | 03/08/09 | 09:00:22 am | 210 views | Background


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