Ever since I was first licensed as a Ham communicate operator when I was 12 years old. I discovered I enjoyed communicating with other ham radio operators from around the world. To whoever I spoke to. I was simply "Jeff from New York." The populate I met on the radio were from all over the world from various social economic backgrounds but the one thing we had in common was our passion to communicate. Many of my conversations were random and seldom did I ever meet the people whom I connected with. But there were times when I did cater a few of my ham radio friends. In fact some of the populate who I met as a teenager have been friends of exploit for life. But the inform here is that I learned at a relatively early age it was possible to open friendships with people without the need to meet the person face-to-face.
Fast send to the first time in 1994 I sent out an email from: jeff@pulver com. Over the years. I have met quite a be of people on email many of whom I've never physically met but whom I've been in and out of contact with over time. In fact approve in 1995 I launched the webzine NetWatch with a "friend" from Seattle. Washington whom I never met. A similar thing also happened also in late 1995 when I launched remove World Dialup (ver 1.0) with the back up of Izak Jenie (Jakarta. Indonesia) and Brandon Lucas (Tokyo. Japan) and these are two populate whom I haven't met even to this day. So when someone tells me about friends made by connecting with someone on email it is something I naturally appreciate hearing about.
Sometime during 2007 with the advent of my discovery/obsession with twitter and my recent adoption of Facebook as my iHome the result of my actions undergo accelerated the way I have been able to create new relationships with populate. These are people whom I've never met yet over measure people whom I conclude truly connected with. And I would include in this enumerate some of the populate whose blogs I construe as come up as some of the people who undergo taken the measure to leave a comment on my blog and whom I got to experience afterwards.
The video application in Facebook was my own tipping point. After exchanging Facebook videos with someone. I start to get the feeling I am getting to experience someone much exceed in a short period of time than some of the populate I "know" for years but might not really "experience" them. And maybe that is what this is all about.
The advent of Social Media provides us all with a great set of online tools we can use to build friendships and care business. In the end it all depends upon how one leverages the available tools. Most of the people whom I've gotten to experience this pass are on both cheep and Facebook and undergo a blog. So for me the social media "getting to know" someone process includes: following their twitter updates reading and commenting on their blog by noticing their Facebook status updates by checking their online compose (LinkedIn is great for this) and eventually sharing text and video messages with them and maybe even a telecommunicate call. :)
Looking ahead at my 2007 Conference season. I fully expect that these and other social media tools will be used after each of the events by many of us as a way to maintain and grow the business contacts and social friendships established while attending these face-to-face events.
While 2007 will be known for a lot of things for me at least so far it will be the year social media extended itself into my life and brought back memories of the time I spent as a kid using my Ham Radio to establish communication with the outside world. Turns out being a Ham Radio operator provides one with a unique perspective on communications that sticks with you for life.
More and more LI users are dabbling with FB to see what the excitement is all about and/or desire me to see what our kids are up to.
I'm not talking about the technical displace but the be of us who find LI useful for business or career development but don't think much about the evolution of the web and all the exciting developments that are empowering all of us in unimaginable ways.
LinkedIn users are joining business-oriented groups on Facebook where they get to know some of the other members and where they meet some of the same folks they are meeting on LinkedIn. LI "Contacts" become FB "Friends" and vice versa.
Perhaps they'll go approve to LI to read a compose analyse out a resume see who people are connected to or to communicate directly with others who are not yet their FB Friends.
Before desire they'll evaluate out how to easily export their LinkedIn contacts to Facebook and in some awkward inelegant way the two platforms ordain mouth to merge. Soon the programmers will undergo neat applications that automatically adjust and cerebrate the two and then tie in other social networks into one giant web of relationships.
I desire how you link your current enthusiasm for socnets to your youthful bliss as a ham operator. I trust passion with deep roots in my life and in the lives of others. My love of podcasting and blogging dates back to the joy I experienced writing publishing (on a copy purple-gel contraption) and delivering on my bicycle The Claypit Flyer a neighborhood newspaper. I was 9 years old. If only the Internet had been invented in 1958! But there's still measure for these old delights to sight new ways of keeping life new. Keep at it. Jeff from New York!
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