My Social Experiment
How successfully can someone with virtually no web presence build one while providing useful content to the web community?
This is the question I want to try and answer using this blog, various social applications along with local networking events. Hopefully this doesn't sound too self-absorbing, most people just open a blog and get to it. I want to document the process, the successes, the pit-falls, and the total experience so that others may follow.
Geoff Livingston recently proposed an interesting question on Twitter recently:
How do you know when you are a social media success?
It looks like the majority of his responses were you are never a success for long. Don't rest on your laurels! My thought went another way, you become successful as you make others succeed. Thats my goal. Whether its a client or someone reading this blog my hope is that I can help provide for their success and we can keep the ball rolling. Think Pay It Forward.
For a personal blogger the first step is finding what to write about. A focus if you will. After much thought and some helpful guidance at the New New Internet conference, this is my focus:
How does a veteran of the software development industry with heavy experience in waterfall and spiral development efforts, along with rigid CMMi practices, migrate to and successfully practice the new Web 2.0 experience?
Tomorrow I'll take the next step and organize my resources. More to come.
This is the question I want to try and answer using this blog, various social applications along with local networking events. Hopefully this doesn't sound too self-absorbing, most people just open a blog and get to it. I want to document the process, the successes, the pit-falls, and the total experience so that others may follow.
Geoff Livingston recently proposed an interesting question on Twitter recently:
How do you know when you are a social media success?
It looks like the majority of his responses were you are never a success for long. Don't rest on your laurels! My thought went another way, you become successful as you make others succeed. Thats my goal. Whether its a client or someone reading this blog my hope is that I can help provide for their success and we can keep the ball rolling. Think Pay It Forward.
For a personal blogger the first step is finding what to write about. A focus if you will. After much thought and some helpful guidance at the New New Internet conference, this is my focus:
How does a veteran of the software development industry with heavy experience in waterfall and spiral development efforts, along with rigid CMMi practices, migrate to and successfully practice the new Web 2.0 experience?
Tomorrow I'll take the next step and organize my resources. More to come.
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