PodCampAZ: Austin Baker’s Social Media session

November 2, 2008

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In Austin Baker’s session about how Social Media can change our lives. He, like me, has a “real job” cause we have kids and need to support them. He’s talking about how he’s used Social Media and the opportunities that have befell him. Kind of an interesting story. My daughter and his are the same age, and we seem to have similar philosophies about living transparent lives online and not worry about privacy. He asked us what the end all is of social media tools and someone said that once you meet the person IRL that the online aspect of the relationship disappears, but most people pounced on this comment and rejected it. Austin said we use social media to build relationships and to strengthen relationships. When twittering he said to not just tweet to tweet. You need to be moderately interesting or you will lose your audience. “The internet shows your lameness to the world.”

When blogging, try to be a professional in that area. You don’t need to be a genuis to do it, but just get out there and do your best. People will begin to connect and then network out. An audience builds around your blog if you keep it focused.

We’ve been having a great discussion about Friday night coffees, and Austin mentioned that the internet is “this big” and held up two fingers about an inch apart. It truly is connectivity and freaks us all out. Kinda like last night having dinner with some lady named Heather who I didn’t know until she s

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