In the last month of my shift in my new work, I have been attending different local networking events geared to technology. I have found them through my local twitter connections. One was a pizzatweetup created by @lapp. Over 70 people attended to enjoy the face to face company of our online connections. There was no specific talk. It was simply to connect. That is really what the whole Social Media is about.
In the last weeks, I called a couple of my newfound techie twitter friends as I was trying to embrace my new job description. I am hired to do a job that really is not clearly defined. That is what was said in another meeting I went to this week. No one is a real Social Media Expert because it is so new. It was at the Association for Women in Communiciations.(AWCS).
The panel discussion was about the current job climate. There were many tips on how to make your resume better,volunteering as a way of showing your skills while out of a job, and how to use online portals like Linked In, Facebook and Twitter to make new connections. Yet,80% of jobs are found through personal networking.
The good thing is that I have found a job that I like. So my mind is finally without the underlying tension of finding work. I have been busy creating the new website for my brother, putting together the content, and really enjoying it. I imagine that as time goes by my job description will be more clearly defined. One of the best tweets that made me laugh is from @Scobleizer. It sums up what Social Media is about (the lol came from me retweeting his tweet):
After being actively on twitter for over six months, I have really enjoyed the human connection with some people I have not personally talked to on the phone or even met. I can say though, that being on twitter and other social mediums is all about being human and more so, it’s about being real.
The internet is providing the medium to connect in so many new ways. Sure, there are a lot of strange people out there. I am careful what I tweet, blog and say. But my main intent is to make real human connections from interesting people that I would not have made otherwise in my own box here in Miami. I hope to meet some of these connections in real life on my global twitter @blancastella. I actually created my @blancastella profile by following people in different niches that interested me: bloggers, technology, authors, writers, journalists. It has expanded to other topics as well. My idea was to get a pulse on what was happening in the world. It has opened my eyes a lot!
Subsequently, I created a local twitter @miamishines to connect with people in South Florida. Most of my local twitter friends that I engage in tweets with, I have personally met at events. We kind of go back and forth with a lot of tweets because there has been the human face to face touch. I don’t know if having two twitter accounts is the right strategy. But, it makes it more simple and I feel more free to tweet without thinking I may be annoying others on my global twitter with random tweets like: “I’m having pizza at Spris. Anyone around?”
So in a nutshell, my job is to help others humanly connect. Not a bad thing, I would say. I’m liking it. I took this picture last night at Van Dyke. The band GoPalo was playing. I went there because @gopalo was one of my twitter friends. I finally met him in 3D. The funny thing is that his avatar is not him. It is the logo of his band. I was expecting a long haired dark skinned guy. As I scanned the five members of the band while they played, I asked someone on the side, “Who is GoPalo, the one that twitters?” Turns out, it was the bald white american guy, who in his words, is cubanized, speaks spanish and his name is Mike. They play amazing AfroCuban Funk style music.
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