Thursday, November 10, 2011

Twitter, Blog, LinkedIn, Facebook


 Grade 6 class of 1972 Roxboro Elementary Montreal

Which one?  This blog is more a personal diary.  I don't get to it very often and I use it to write more general observations.

I Twitter, but don't expect people to follow me really.  Although I am getting a few more followers and reposts and sometimes what I tweet gets consolidated into some cloud newsletters, which is interesting because I don't know why or how it happens.  I do have a good unique handle - Grokiam - I guess and I do have some unique things to say.

Facebook is for friends from high school and trusted similar-mined work and life colleagues.  I have way more HS friends connected on FB than any others.  I think that HS is a time of maximal identity-forming, and I had a great group of people I spent time with from grade 1 - 6 and then even more from grade 7 - 11- we are still a virtual community now - even after 30 years or so.  See photo - we know each other very well as we all grew up to become adults together.

LinkedIn is for more professional connections and I am a member and contributor to quite a few groups on cloud, innovation, angel and VC investment, complexity science, innovation.  There are some good discussions but some, but not all is self-promotion.

There are lots of other channels too.  I am reading a book, Six Pixels of Separation, which is a pretty good book about connecting via various forms of social media.  I just do it now as part of connecting and networking - it's part of being a connected social being.

Also, my mom and brother and sisters and son (but not husband yet!) are on Facebook, and it's a rich way to share what's up.  We skype, text and post things that we want to share.


Sue, Linda, Scott, Joanne, Lynn 30th reunion of Riverdale HS Montreal class of 1977.



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