It’s the road to a year-long project that grew from your idea. You choose it. You got the right folks interested in it for what you thought that might get accomplished.
The deal is when a year is over you’ll be right where you are this moment.
So what would you be doing?
What would you value most deeply and miss most completely while you were walking down this road?
–ME “Liz” Strauss
Work with Liz!!
For those who come looking for a short, thoughtful read, a blogging life discussion, or a way to gradually ease back into the week. I offer this bloggy life question. . . .
You’re a social media consultant. You’ve just established a working relationship with an event planning bureau. Your client provides a service — they match clients who want to sponsor international conferences and trade shows with experienced, local event planners. Your task is to develop a strategy to reach new potential sponsors and to establish a strong and visible online presence for the client company.
Two weeks into your relationship, the Chief Marketing Officer contacts sends you a link to the first page of Google Search. The search is on “Google Event Planning Center.” You read a few of the listed results — all contain the same basic information. Google has announced intentions to establish an international meeting place for event planners and sponsors to do business. . . . not much more. Some industry leaders offer speculation on Google’s strategy. No date for launch or further information is given.
How do you advice your client to respond to the announcement?
–ME “Liz” Strauss
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For those who come looking for a short, thoughtful read, a blogging life discussion, or a way to gradually ease back into the week. I offer this bloggy life question. . . .
You’ve been hearing rumors.
This weekend’s financial programs and news reports have confirmed it. Your mid-sized company has just been sold to a major corporation. Who knows why they bought it?
You know plenty about the corporation and their policies. You’ve been following them on the blogs for 2 or 3 years. The biggest issues are their stance against net neutrality, their attempts to squash anything opensource, and their flat-out policy against ANY employee or vendor blogging.
You read the corporate policy documents — they were passed around the Internet as examples of Big Brother. Basically, this buyout will mean that you will be required to close down your blog. It doesn’t matter that you blog about unrelated subjects — your content could not be connected to the company where you work or the corporation that bought it. The No Blog Tolerance rule is unbendable according to ex-employees of the behemoth enterprise who now owns your company.
How will you respond to coming ultimatum?
–ME “Liz” Strauss
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For those who come looking for a short, thoughtful read, a blogging life discussion, or a way to gradually ease back into the week. I offer this bloggy life question. . . .
It’s a real-life question tonight. . . .
In March, I wrote a post in response to a bad experience at an “elite” social networking site. I’ll wait while you check it out. . . .
In a day or so, two things happened.
- My post made the first page of Google for the keyword doostang.
- My LinkedIn account showed that someone from Doostang had visited my profile. No one attempted to contact me.
Mid-May that post started to draw 5% to 10% of my daily search traffic. As you can see by the comments there, it can’t be helping Doostang’s elite self-defined profile as social network for top tier talent.
This week, I saw traffic from The New York Times article by Andrew Ross Sorkin, called Social Networking on Wall Street. The comments were less than favorable. Someone named John had left a link to my original article there.
I’ll wait while you take a look.
Doostang just launched a new look targeted at college elite.
If Doostang asked for your advice, what would you tell them to do?
–ME “Liz” Strauss
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For those who come looking for a short, thoughtful read, a blogging life discussion, or a way to gradually ease back into the week. I offer this bloggy life question. . . .
It’s a simple question tonight.
If someone offered you a tax-free, cool $10 million in cash.
You choose any house, or mansion, or castle, or villa, or vineyard manse anywhere in the world.
And you only have one condition to accept: You must quit participating on Internet. No blogging. No Twitter conversation. No IMs, DMs, or emails. You can read. You can follow your friends. BUT you have to stay totally silent — no words, no images, no audio, to video, no sign of you in cyberspace for the rest of your life. You’ll be totally back to Web 1.0 — watching the rest of the world move forward.
Would you take the deal?
–ME “Liz” Strauss
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For those who come looking for a short, thoughtful read, a blogging life discussion, or a way to gradually ease back into the week. I offer this bloggy life question. . . .
You had a casual conversation with a group of friends about telling the truth. All of you agreed that truth is important to a relationship.
Then the question of the middle ground came up.
Someone asked, “What do you do when someone asks your opinion of their blog, and you think that it’s really bad?”
One of your friends answers, “Hey that’s easy, you tell the truth and make it sound like a lie. You talk with exaggeration while smiling, and say something like, ‘Ooh your writing is SO incredibly boring and below level, that it makes even you want to think of 1,000 ways to die.’ Then you laugh and smile. It’s the truth, but the person won’t believe you. The question is over and you’re safe again.”
Another friend says, “That’s deception. It’s the same as a lie.”
How do you respond?
–ME “Liz” Strauss
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