Demystifying Social Media
/In this eight-minute video, I attempt to demystify social media, which is often over-identified with the technology that enables it, when, in fact, we have always been social, and we have always used media, because social media is about human communication, about humans communicating in the same ways they have always communicated, by sharing images, memories, stories, words, and more often nowadays, we are communicating by sharing photographs, videos, and messages via social media status updates.
This video briefly discusses the three social media services used by my local Toastmasters club — Pinterest, Vimeo, and Twitter — and concludes with an analogy inspired by The Emerald City and The Yellow Brick Road from The Wizard of Oz:
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Social Karma Blog Series
- Social Karma (Part 1) – Series Introduction
- Social Karma (Part 2) – Social Media Preparation
- Social Karma (Part 3) – Listening Stations, Home Base, and Outposts
- Social Karma (Part 4) – Blogging Best Practices
- Social Karma (Part 5) – Connection, Engagement, and ROI Basics
- Social Karma (Part 6) – Social Media Books
- Social Karma (Part 7) – Twitter
- Social Karma (Part 8) – Social Karma Presentation
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