Just in case you’re interested, the January SMBMSP ListenUp Podcast is available! Mykl Roventine and I talked with Pamela Muldoon about the challenges and opportunities of social media to the publishing industry. Pamela was also the moderator at the January SMBMSP event on the same topic.
Head over to www.smbmsp.org/podcasts to subscribe to the SMBMSP ListenUp via iTunes or RSS!
Ever have a plan? One you are sure is the one you’re destined to follow? Did it work out the way you thought?
Yeah, same here. Though its becoming less surprising as the years pass I think. The great part of following your gut and your heart in life’s great adventure is that you’re guaranteed an exciting one.
Its been awhile since I’ve talked here about the exciting challenges I’ve run into, and this year has been filled with a number of new ones. Events, people, and situations that make you think hard about what you’ve chosen to do. They give you another perspective that you may not have had when you started.
I speak, of course, about the challenges and choice of freelance consulting. Taking the world by the tail and making the most of your skills and knowledge in a new and exciting way. The great things about plans is that they always tend to deviate… to zig when you plotted a zag, or that the situation you thought would take place doesn’t seem to develop.
For many who attempt it, this is simply known as the Plan B effect. Of course, “The Plan” didn’t require a Plan B… so we never develop one. They tend to develop themselves, and that’s where the real excitement comes from.
In my case, I’m talking about SMBMSP, and there is so much to tell, so much to share on that front that I’m going to cover some of that over the coming months. What I hope to do is share a bit of the back story, some of the perspectives from my viewpoint on how we’ve got to where we are today, and what’s happening next. I guess I should call it “Plan SMBMSP”.
Its interesting to see where the long and winding road will take you.
Small towns. I grew up in one, and wish many more folks had that opportunity to really get to know the people in your community. Unfortunately, that’s not the reality in our neighborhoods today, where the urban landscape seems to run unendingly into the horizon.
It was in small towns that communities were, more often than not, strong and supportive. In these small communities, people looked out for each other and most of the time made it easy for people to succeed. You relied on your neighbor because of the challenges and demands that were common to everyone.
For many of us, this kind of community didn’t exist. Or some of us started in those small communities and moved to much, much larger ones. The differences are profound and complex. Large communities tend to seem about numbers rather than people, and coming from an environment where you know everyone to one where you’re lost in the crowd can be overwhelming.
However, we’ve found another way to create unique, small communities that have tremendous value through the Internet. These innumerable, special-interest communities are not unlike small towns. They’re made up of many different individuals with wide-ranging perspectives and experiences, and they are the better for it.
I very much like to compare online communities to those small towns I speak so favorably about. Mainly because they reward the members as they participate and interact with each other. They open up new worlds of opportunity and knowledge that seem daunting at the outset, making friendships and acquaintances easier for many people lost in larger physical communities.
I see a number of small communities I belong to today, each one unique, offering something the others do not. These communities help define and direct who I am and what I do much like the small town I grew up in helped shape my world view and direction in life.
I truly hope you have great experiences with your small communities and help others to discover theirs.
Photo credit: Kodama (home)
Every time we wrap up a Social Media Breakfast – Minneapolis/St. Paul, we learn new things. Fortunately, this time we had the pleasure of sharing the morning with founder of Social Media Breakfast Boston (the original), Bryan Person! Here’s a quick interview we had.
Yesterday must have been one of those days that I could keep the Flip cam in the pocket. There were too many good reasons to use it, one of which was the opportunity to talk with Justin Ware.
Justin is a local Minneapolis video production professional who not only embraces the ideals and tools of social media, but looks for creative ways to tell his client’s story. We met over coffee to talk about the opportunities, challenges, and rewards of working as independent professionals in the social space.
You can find Justin on line at:
Twitter: http://twitter.com/WarehousMedia
What a great day here in Minneapolis yesterday. Along with about 50 other great folks, I had a chance to chat with Jeff Pulver about his 140 Conference and his current #140Conf Roadtrip throughout the Midwest.
After the meetup, I had a chance to chat with Jeff and grab a quick mini-interview before they jumped in the car, bound for Iowa and ‘Field of Dreams’.
I agree with @RealJamesWoods 100% on this suggestion!👇👇
It all started under Clinton
In (1993) Soros opened up a (HQ) in (NYC) for his Open Society
a month later ~ the National Voter Registration Act was signed into law by Clinton
Prohibiting the federal form used to require proof of citizenship to register to vote
Also making
HERO 🚨
Nick Shirley is finding so much fraud in CA, that they wanna pass a law that bans him from finding it
Shirley is right over the target... he's put off going to (IL) to go back to (CA)
Hit that like button if you appreciate what this young man is doing for the country
John Thune isn’t fooling anyone with his RINO tactics.
He is trying to delay passage of Voter ID and other crucial bills so that Democrats win the midterms and impeach President Trump.
He needs to be removed as Leader and primaried.
A 20-something kid with a cell phone camera just cut the national budget deficit by exposing hundreds of billions in fraud.
Turns out we didn’t need more taxation.
Only enforcement of our laws.
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