Someone just recently asked me about LinkedIN and their graduation; a conversation ensued in FB Mail, so I took this looooong answer and created a blog post; also helps me showcase the rationales to a few other friends who think the water it’s too cold, deep, or otherwise murky to ‘dive in’…
[SPLASHES INTO A CANNONBALL!]
@ [OLD FBF!]
“Love reading the stuff you post!” (OLD FBF, 2010)
[SIDE SMILE... PUZZLED LOOK]
Really? then I’d make you my ONE reader!
[CHUCKLES... GUFFAWS]
Seriously; it’s sometimes a weird feeling when the ‘interacting’ stops, I know it was more profuse in the past because of specifics such as the election, the length of this recession (which by now has all worn us down to a nub!) and other topics.
Now I think most of the talk happens in FarmVille land, and that little time is available to talk; also, content has exponentially been ‘induced’ into Facebook, so the amounts are just overwhelming…
… and for someone about to graduate, I think time for you is like the most precious commodity, ain’t it?
[SNICKERS... SIGHS...]
Anyway… yeah, y’all 2010 Grads will be facing a HISTORICALLY sucky market; the good news?
Y’all are also the MOST talented ‘generation’ of grads to come out; many ascribe it to the fact that you’re ‘digitally enabled’
IMHO?
Just got a note from a Toastmasters in Dubai.
Go Global.
Expose Yourself
Curate these Sites as though your life depended on IT!
LinkedIN? PAY for the upgrade, and make it a point of getting PAST those 500+ connections in a minute; there, it’s obvious why you’re asking, so be courteous, yet assertive
Here? Create a Professional FB ‘Fan’ Page; make it ‘sound’ like your LinkedIN Profile (100% Business)
Use Networked Blogs to add some cool RSS’ing to it; creates a REASON to fan it; and for some of us, a reason to @Mention, Share and interact with YOUR Fan Page here in FB
…. and last but NOT least?
Dude… get on TWITTER!!!!
ASAP!
That’s where a LOT of people are getting their “Ticker Tape” fix… remember Homer Adams watching it intently?
That’s my best analogy for it; it’s fresh, breaking, and above all, relevant information.
Me?
Check out the info tab, there’s a handful of ID’s, pick at least:
@MMSocieties
@FJPalacio
The others are ‘convo’ -specific (i.e. Oralisimo = #LATISM; Papparazzos = #TOGS, etc)
AND LEARN THE LINGO!
Want more?
Sign up for our Meetup.Com place, I post all the vids, and most relevant of all, that’s the only place to get our ‘Slides’.
http://MediaMentoring.Net.
Okidoki, hope this helps – and answers! some more questions, Mr. Graduate
F.
P.S: Coffee? SURE!… the whole point of FBF’s is that eventually we DO get to meet them FTF!…
[CACKLES!]
O Tempora, O Mores!
Ci vedeamo!
[HUMS HAPPILY... THINKS TO HIMSELF: "I have a reader! at least ONE reader out there!... yay!"]
(;OD)~
“
Sometimes
we post stuff, that may be obscure (yeah, guilty as charged) and
sometimes it feels that sometimes not everyone is aware of how much
BETTER a conversation would be if the research was done before hand……
… not that it’s NOT rude, but perhaps a new way of communicating in these ‘halls’, so to speak?
Candidly
A Google-ator
Searching for Conversation since The Remotest Past
but if the question is made so as to elicit a person’s personal
opinion, the subject matter of which you are both personably
knowledgeable, the person being asked the question is being rude if
they tell you to google it.Or maybe the person isn’t as knowledgable as you thought they were.
And
yeah, some of us may be acting rudely dissmissive; yet, for example,
there’s a bunch of my friends, that for example, keep buggin’ me about
translatin’ what I do here in THEIR language; others, bug me about them
being sometimes in three or more languages…
So if I tell them to go to Google Translate more than once, am I being rude?
See the dilemma?
And
again, as I said earlier: it’s a tab away; I for one, if the synopsis
that is attached to the posting is not enough, given time – and
resources; i.e. sometimes Googling on a phone is painstaking – I will
Google before asking; others? I’ll be on the receiving end, with the
interlocutor on the other end glaring at me, as though we all had the
time, disposition and context to understand everythin’ they’re postin’!
So I think it’s a matter of common sense and courtesy, perhaps? specially when we’re ALL ‘tone-deaf’ in this place?
Tone deafness? May want to review your manners, too!
[ADJUSTS THE PROVERBIAL HEARING AID]
Si?
Ci vedeamo!
[GRINS]
P.S:
BTW, would it be Ok. if I edited this exchange (and what I hope is to
follow) on my blog? it’s precisely centered on the challenges of
computer-mediated communications… Let me know!
Again, salute!
[WINK'N'GRIN]
just send me a link to the blog so I can enjoy reading the fruits of a
conversation. If I could read the entry first, post-editing just so my
perspective is kept in context, if included in anyway, that would be
grand.What does CMAC stand for?
I do wonder tho, for as
many people that ask you to simply translate what you are posting, how
many people on facebook and/or other applications are intuitive enough
to understand what you are doing and ask questions that cause you to
stop and reflect upon some questions in a way that google cannot answer?…
Also,
I must comment on the content that results from a google search. For
instance, I recently google’d The SanRemo Music Festival. I did this
search despite knowing full well that my friend, here on facebook,
Franco Corso, could provide me with firsthand information that would be
exactly the kind of answers I was looking for about SanRemo.
At
the risk of putting myself in a vulnerable position in which my
feelings may have gotten hurt by his lack of response, I googled, and,
of course, the first result was Wikipedia.
There are a lot of
people who have junked up Wikipedia. So, if a person tells me to google
a question, are they purposefully leading me towards false information?
getting better at giving stupid responses to those kinds of questions.
... And yeah, sometimes it's worth to go 'head over heels' for the sake of keeping people engaged in your 'performance'
Not really; once I get permission, as the Clipboardist that I am, I merely move these -as-is/verbatim- over to the blog….
Hence
no need to worry about revisions; it’s as fresh as it was here – and we
‘preserve’ these good conversations, as I understand these are one of
the few items that FB actually ‘shreds’ (I mean, how far back can we go
on the wall? have not checked lately, but a few iterations ago, it was
about 60 to 45 days at the most; hence the start of the series, yadda,
yadda, yadda)That said, your last two entries are 100%
copacetic with the entirety of the thread, and yes, illustrate the
‘Fuzzy Logic” that accompanies live in the Cloud Computing.
CMAC?
Check
this FB Group out; I’ve been researching it for a few years, and have
made it the foundation of the business I recently started.
Most of the links are either academic (proven sources/whitepapers/research papers) or when they come out on e-zines or magazines, I’ve tried to keep them as ‘valid’ as any.
http://groups.to/CMAC
… Grazie!… I will come back and preserve this thread in a bit, hafta complete some event coverage from last night.
Ciao!
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I also ‘tagged’ you so you could find it – and tie the note onto the tread, perhaps?