There’s this thing about name-dropping: It works.
That’s right. It works. That’s what makes name-dropping so insidious.
Dead man walkin'.
Name-dopping happens when people don’t know who they are. They use the reputation of other people to prop themselves up. It’s like an emotional version of “Weekend at Bernie’s”.
I love lists. Lists are one of the best ways to get things done, to survey a project, to get organized, or go grocery shopping for your lady (“Honey, what aisle are the fermented bean sprouts in again?”) Plain and simple: Lists rule.
One of the questions are hear most often is, “what social media resources do you recommend?” I’ve never taken the time to put them all in one place. Until now. Here are my “I reseve the right to change this list whenever I need to!” must-have social media resources, in no particular order:
I’m starting to get sick of social media.
More specifically, I’m growing weary of the “magic bullet” thinking around social media: “If we build it, they will come.” If we have social mediums like Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and a blog, our business/brand/organization/cause will succeed and excel past our wildest imagination!
This gets me every time.
EHH. Wrong. Try again.
We’ve reached a saturation point with social media. Brian Solis calls it the transition from Social Media 1.0. Basically, we’re like dogs who have finally caught up to the car we’ve been chasing. We’re standing around asking the question, “Um. Now what?”
