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June 11, 2009

Social Media Road Trip

kathryn wrote this at 6:47 am

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I’m going on a road trip in the next few weeks. I’ll be traveling around on roads and paths that many have been traveled on by many others before. I will be on the same road but not for the same reasons. My reasons, my path, will differ from anyone else taking the same road.

I will, no doubt, meet many others traveling the very same roads I am taking. Those I meet may not be able to help with the path but they can help me with the road.

Along the way I will stop at cafes, rest stops, garage stations, shops and wonderful places to sleep. Each of those places will provide me with opportunities to meet others and engage in conversations. These people that I meet probably won’t be aware of the path I’m taking but they will know the road.
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The road they just came down might be the road I need to be on. More importantly, I can give them tips, (destinations, distances to places to see etc.) about the road I just traveled.

These roads I will travel are very much like social media tools.

We all have different reasons, approaches and things we wish to accomplish on our path, but we all use the same tools - road, to get there. Each of us, on our own individual path, has something to offer others traveling the same roads, or using the same tools, as we are. No matter what path you’re on, or even if you get stuck, there will always be someone coming along that can help you.

Have you stopped and helped someone lately?

from Kathryn Jennex aka northernchick

Thanks Joel Kelly for offering to drive.





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7 Comments to “Social Media Road Trip”

  1. June 11th, 2009 at 8:23 am
    Joel Kelly said

    Very interesting stuff.

    And telling people they should definitely use auto-DMs, etc, is like when you give someone the wrong road directions for a laugh.

    Not that I would ever do either.

    *cough*

  2. June 11th, 2009 at 8:25 am
    Richard Reeve said

    The balance sheet, if someone where to be keeping it, places me in such a hole of debt to those that have guided me in this space, that I’ve got a few decades of giving back to catch up to my karma load.

    Here’s to all the serendipitous opportunities to simply be human…to stop and lend a hand when we observe the next flat tire.

  3. June 11th, 2009 at 8:30 am
    Kathryn said

    Joel - HA! no you? never…..thanks for stopping by

    Richard - here, here! I find it’s always those who feel they have so much owed to give back are the ones who do most of the giving….. ;)

  4. June 11th, 2009 at 10:13 am
    Therese said

    I love this post. I am a believer that you should always pay it forward, there is no success without a successor.

    I really like the way this was written as well.

  5. June 11th, 2009 at 10:37 pm
    MtnDweller said

    Liz, take a tent just in case. Nice post btw.

  6. June 14th, 2009 at 1:13 am
    Suzie Cheel said

    Sounds great look forward to reading about your journey, great pic too:) Glad to see the blog is back

  7. June 14th, 2009 at 11:26 pm
    Young Entrepreneurs said

    i agree for this post becouse no one can be suceed without guidness thanks

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