I have been looking at how folks use social media (facebook, myspace, linkedin, twitter, etc) for constructive reasons and i came across this link
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Wednesday, August 26, 2009
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i would be concerned that most people would see this as unprofessional and cheap unless you are in entertainment but i don't know....it may be the norm in a few years....overall i think they should be mandated for play unless you are in entertainment or just starting out. like i know of a person advertising her online radio show through face book. this is still entertainment but i imagine once the show gains a following it would be advantageous to shift marketing out of face book....
ReplyDeletei know of a few websites that do this for academia only and it seems the more you try to professionalize these online marketing tools the more it becomes like monster and career builder; thus the sites he states are like black holes....
interesting though, i expect it to be the norm in a few years...
also as it becomes the norm i expect it to no longer be free....
ReplyDeleteMy thoughts it are as follows:
ReplyDelete1. I think as we adopted social media to communicate we will use less formal structure when communicating (I think you viewed it as unprofessional). I think we're trading the formalize structure for speed, fidelity, and real time access.
If you think about it it is hard to expect a more formalized structure every time one communicates assuming speed is what people prefer because it would take too much time to craft the message.
We can look at this as a downward slide of society or we can view it as yet another change that will come, in the past we wrote letters that had a certain formal MLA format but now email messages are more readily used with a loose structure, we even use shorter messages are used with IM,
just look at this IM message from a co-worker
XXX, XXXXX M [X:XX PM]:
i'm gonna share it
i'm in the XX meeting
hold
you see this SH*T?!?
Personally I don't always proof read as much as I should, and I kick myself when I see a spelling error in an email that i sent out.
2. I was wondering where does someone go to be themselves and where can I go to not get marketed to. My manager is on my facebook, and i worry about whether he is taking the wrong impression, then again he tried to hook me up with a date on facebook. I am planning on restricting what he and others from work can see. I don't have anything crazy on my profile but some friends of mine is going to post something crazy that's going to make me blush.
Then at the same time am I more familiar with my manager because he can see some personal stuff and its advantageous.
yeah overall i agree....over time this will become the norm but initially there will be some bumps in the road as to what the standard is for this type of communication....i can recall in undregrad we had classes teaching us how to format email as we did letters....now that is a lost art.
ReplyDeleteGreat post Eugenio. I have always thought that this blog can, should and will evolve into something like a magazine with content that educated savants such as folk we know relate to.
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