It is with great hesitation that I’m beginning to blog about social media and technology. It is not my field of primary expertise, and the there are already far too many “experts” out there. But after weeks of having four or five social-media themed posts that I wasn’t writing for my other blog because they were too far off my almost non-existent topic, it seemed like it was time to break down and create a blog dedicated to Social Media, Technology and Society.
So I begin, with a bit of a tongue in cheek look at the social media expert (myself included).
The interior dialogue monologue of the social media consultant:
When I got up this morning [we'll call it morning even if it was almost 11AM] I knew it was going to be a great day because that’s what I tweeted. And then I read my own tweet on TweetDeck, and if you see it on Twitter, it has to be true.
So I contacted one of my clients (and by client I mean this guy I know who needs help with facebook–money changing hands is so irrelevant in the SocialMedia world), and we IMed for a good 45 minutes. Then I updated my linked-in page to reflect the work I did for the client this morning: “Prepared social media response push for experimental agriculture system.” It means I told him how to request gifts in farmville.
This evening I have a big networking event. I’m really looking forward to seeing people, and having people see me be too busy with my iPhone to talk with them. I’m sure I’ll make some great contacts. I have stickers to hand out, but they’re special: they’re blank. It symbolizes how we create our own media. That way, whenever someone sees a blank page, they’ll think of me. Brilliant!
Well, I better get going. I have to polish my fonts or something.
And with that, I’ll be going, but I’ll have more real content in the future.
