Wednesday, 24 March 2010

What Rob learnt at Marie Workshops today

Linking

Links are the best thing about the web. They take you from here to here. Linking is what makes the web different from a book.

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The Blenheim

This is the ship my great-great-great-grandparents arrived to New Zealand in, in February 1840, the same month the Treaty of Waitangi was signed. 

They arrived at Port Nicholson (now known as Wellington) expecting an established settlement, and found the rugged hills and empty beaches. 

Home was either back in Scotland on the other side of the world, or here. They chose here. You could say they didn't have much choice, but their choice was in their attitude. 

Every day they inspire me to choose here. To choose now.

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What I had for breakfast this morning (an ironic take on stereotypes of blogging)

So food. It gets talked about all the time when it comes to social media.

"Why would I go on Twitter?" people say. "I don't want to know what someone had for breakfast!" 

And yet ... from my personal experience on Twitter (3-odd years, 6000-odd followers) tweets about food get the most interaction.

Maybe it's the way I say it: "Crumpet emergency! We are out of Nutella and/or jam". That one led to a lot of great comments back from people with great suggestions - including mixing butter and brown sugar (mmm!) 

Why? Because everyone eats food. No-one doesn't eat food. Food and music are two of the great social connectors. 

So next time you're scratching your head, wondering what to blog about, or tweet about (etc!) maybe just try saying - with a bit of dramatic flair - what you had for breakfast.

Mine, by the way, was supposed to be porridge, but ended up being some of that nice new Vogels cereal (well, new to me, because I haven't tried it before). My verdict: Mmmm! 

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Thursday, 11 March 2010

Eeek

I wonder what this looks like on Posterous?

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Wednesday, 10 March 2010

What Murray said about our workshop

More photos

A blog post with a photo

(And I'm choosing it at random so I wonder what it will look like)

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A blog post about blog posts

This is an example post written for our attendees at Marie Workshops. It may not make any sense to you if you're not here. The sentence that you were working on before...

which, as I recall, was something like:

Who you are (business or individual, or a combination of the two - it's up to you). 

What's your message? (In a sentence)

For example: 

#END
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Simon Young
Director
#sy social media consultancy
http://sy-engage.com/

Ph (+649) 379 5421 | Mob (+64) 021 192 0016
Skype: simonisntsoyoung
Our office: http://www.schmap.me/sy-engage/

Find me on Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook etc: http://j.mp/simonyoung

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Saturday, 6 March 2010

Mental note: i had forgotten how awesome Che Fu is

Mental note: i had forgotten how awesome Che Fu is

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Lot of ppl here for the villamaria concert. MC just said "here's the sun folks, as promised" haha

Lot of ppl here for the #villamaria concert. MC just said "here's the sun folks, as promised" haha

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Tuesday, 2 March 2010

I'm sitting here very thankful for several things, one of which is the ability to get the cover off our spare pc ...

I'm sitting here very thankful for several things, one of which is the ability to get the cover off our spare pc without a screwdriver, (thanks IBM) and the other of which is the ability to communicate your thoughts concisely

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Surprisingly quiet on my desktop

Surprisingly quiet on my desktop

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