Found this via 2013 TFII Storify stream but wanted to find the original source. So bam. So so true and how I see these varying networks.
Your Personal Brand (by DrewVigal)
Used this slide for a recent talk about social media. This is reflective of my usage only and not any other data set. The top row are services I’m on but don’t contribute to heavily. And I unfortunately left off Pinterest which I moderately use.
The first few years of the social media revolution have been a golden age of tech utilitarianism, where maximizing users’ delight was considered, quite literally, the only currency that mattered. In Part II of the revolution, the desired currency is poised to change from attention to profit.
Any day?
It should be there to: improve your journalism, or increase your traffic from social platforms, get people spending more on your sites, improve customer relationships, or get customer data.
I vote to “improve your journalism” but should also have the end goal of allowing others to tell, as well as, be informed by those shared experiences.
A little late to the game but still relevant.
But in our rush to connect, we flee from solitude, our ability to be separate and gather ourselves.
Such an excellent list… including:
- Offer random tweets of kindness: Every now and then I ask on Twitter, “Is there anything I can do to help or support you today?”
- Experience now, share later: Just as we aim to reduce our internal monologues to be present, we can do the same with our digital narration.
My top four:
The referral traffic on NPR’s Facebook page has grown from 1.5 million to 4.5 million pageviews a month.
That’s enormous growth.
Some great quotable lines on museums and digital technology:
And in our digital era, museums offer one of the most fertile grounds for that reinvention.
(Social media) can provide access to a much wider audience, and can extend the museum visit by allowing a user to continue the aesthetic experience after leaving the museum.
Edward Rothstein, the New York Times’ cultural critic-at-large, bemoaned the loss of contemplation, which has fallen by the wayside for those museum-goers whose primary goal becomes taking pictures of objects or of other people looking at objects. (via: “From Picassos to Sarcophagi, Guided by Phone Apps”)
There’s not a lot of garden left in the world. And this is what makes museums so important. (In reference to Nicholas Carr’s “there needs to be time for efficient data collection and time for inefficient contemplation, time to operate the machine and time to sit idly in the garden.”)
The future of social media in journalism will see the death of “social media.” That is, all media as we know it today will become social, and feature a social component to one extent or another.
I feel the same way about multimedia.
