Social Media
To move forward we must Radio Back our discoveries to those right behind us, those with less time.
Bob: I was working on my blog last night.
Boss: What's a blog?
The social aspects of the Internet have fascinated me from day one. It wasn't very long after getting online ten years ago, that I found communities of people who shared similar interests. In those days I used a handle for a name and remained anonymous. One community that I belonged to was work related. It mostly consisted of people much higher up in the food chain than me - but they never knew that. Soon I was considered one of them, boosting my confidence to the moon. Isn't perception such a fickle beast? Here I was, a lowly peon-cat, with upper middle management type people valuing my contribution based on my content, supported by my perceived position.
It was also about this time that I became an Internet evangelist, mostly yapping to small business owners and management. I couldn't help it, I was so excited about the potential to learn and connect with others. Here is a visual of the over whelming reaction that I got : "I (meaning me, Dave) am an encyclopedia. You are a cat. Read me."
Fast forward to the present. Try talking to a baby boomer business person about blogs, podcasts, wiki's and content communities. The cat still can't read. Heck, newspaper articles profile blogs and podcasts as if they were just recently discovered.
I discovered a nifty little white paper, written in cat-speak, designed to help folks understand the social media frontier of 2006. Check it out.
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