Second [tweet tweet] nature
Today my mom went to a seminar for a women in business group about using social networks. She came home and asked:
“So, how did you learn how to blog and stuff online? Did you learn it in school?”
No. I just kind of started to play around with it.
I just started my tumblr account this week (!), but for the past year I’ve been working on an online portfolio using Wordpress. Maybe it’s because I came of age in the digital era…that it is programed in me to be able to figure out social media on my own. Both Wordpress and Tumblr have ways of posting in both visual text and html — so it’s user-friendly for anyone that can navigate a keyboard. I think that the boomers are blowing Web 2.0 way out of proportion.
This article ran in the WaPo the beginning of July by writer Ian Shapira. I missed the article when it came out, but Gawker picked up recently and Shapira responded with a great article about all Gawker used his work without giving him (and his hours of reporting) enough attribution.
Anyway, this article is about a woman named Anne Loehr who gives executives advice on how to work with their younger associates:
“In her seminar, “Get Wise With Gen Ys: How to Effectively Sell to Each Generation in Today’s Workplace,” Loehr zeroes in on people born in the late 1970s or early 1980s, a demographic cohort so mystifying to its elders that she hands out cheat-sheet wallet cards enumerating traits that supposedly define this exotic generation”
(Ian Shapira 7.9.09)
Now I follow Shapira on Twitter.
Speaking of Twitter:
How to make your twitter feed worth a damn
by Graeme Newell
Some of it is stuff I already figured out on my own (ie you don’t need to follow everyone who follows you — unlike facebook)
But I didn’t know about #followfriday and twello.com.
I probably wont try any of these because I’m not incredibly active on Twitter, but it sounds like it could be interesting for more active users.
