June 24, 2008

Change the World: Social Media and Time

ME Liz Strauss wrote this at 6:50 am

Renewable Resources

Change the World!

This morning I was writing the sentence, “Time is our truly unrenewable resource,” when a Twhirl update popped up in the corner of my screen. I was hard not think about the time so many people spend on Twitter, doing business, being social, letting off steam.

I couldn’t help but wonder what would happen if we took a mere 1% of that total time to simply add a comment to this question about using social media?

What Advice Would You Give to Women in Africa About using Web2.0 Tools to Advance their Work?

Speaking as an educational publisher, I know that those of us who have time to live social media could contribute intuitive detail that those who teach don’t always have time to collect.

We can change the world — just like that.
–ME “Liz” Strauss

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If you’re ready to change the world, send me your thoughts in a guest post. Feel free to take the gorgeous Change the World image up there that Sandy designed back to your blog. Or help yourself to this one.

Change the World!.

Email me about what you’re doing or what we might do. Let’s change the world one bit at a time together. Together it can’t take forever.


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4 Comments to “Change the World: Social Media and Time”

  1. June 25th, 2008 at 1:05 pm
    Beth Kanter said

    Thanks so much for giving people the opportunity to share their advice ..

    I’ve summarized the various threads in different places including your pearls of networking wisdom
    http://beth.typepad.com/beths_blog/2008/06/effective-onl-1.html

  2. June 25th, 2008 at 1:20 pm
    Alanna said

    You need to know what you want the social media to do for you. Make connections who can help you? Link to customers for something you are selling? Help you get information you need, or serve as a resource to others? Social media just for the sake of being present is a hobby, and won’t advance your work.

  3. June 25th, 2008 at 4:58 pm
    ME Liz Strauss said

    Thanks, Beth for bringing that back here!

  4. June 25th, 2008 at 4:59 pm
    ME Liz Strauss said

    Hi Alanna,
    That the key isn’t it? Knowing what your goal or purpose is.

    Once we know why we’re there it’s easier to be open to learning about the folks we meet. :)

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