Interaction

Meet By Chance

Garth Beyer

We meet few people by chance.

Every year we meet hundreds – and for some, thousands – of people willing to be a part of our lives, to benefit us in some way.

Pause and think of all the people who you considered as truly meeting last year. Was there something special attached to meeting that person? Did you help them? Did they assist you? Did one or both of you leave learning something? Are you still communicating and benefiting off each other’s energy?

You never meet anyone without something special transpiring from it. Every meet, all are opportunities in one experience or another. We are due them certain considerations as much as they are due us.

The people who get the most out of meeting someone are the ones who know there’s a reason for them meeting this person, and they are going to make sure they find it.

It’s not coincidence that the most successful people in the world have the most connections with other people, the most communications, the most meet-ups.

 

Stay Positive & Make This Year One Of Connectivity

Garth E. Beyer

Get A Room (A Chat Room)

Garth Beyer

If Twitter isn’t getting filled with noise like spamming quotes, dumb links and self-promotion then it is getting just as filled with the noise of everyone’s conversations.

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If you have been looking forward to my next installment of social media riffing, then you remember when

I first went off on a  riff on follow back courtesy.

After that, there was the need to write about Social Media’s noise and the need for white space.

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Now it’s time to make the “Silence is golden, but duct tape is silver” apply to social media. My view is that it doesn’t matter whether it’s gold, silver, bronze or pink, shut it or get a chat room. There are two parts to this.

Content, Not Compliment: Tweeters feel they are playing their part and promoting those who sent a compliment tweet to them by sending a tweet back saying thanks or wishing them a great day. Lovely. Sincerity and manners is wonderful, but it’s not a promotion, nor is it  meant to be read by all the other people following them. It’s supposed to be personal. Send it in a private message or get a chat room to talk more about how thankful you are. It can stay out of everyone’s Twitter feed.

@@@@@@@@@@@: Responding to a compliment often leads to this: the entire twitter feed is filled with @’s. It doesn’t need to start with a compliment though, it can be catching up with a friend, it can be responding to someones tweet and finally connecting with a tweeter. As I mentioned in riff on follow back courtesy, interaction is the goal, it’s essential. That doesn’t mean you should be constantly tweeting your interactions. You destroy your credibility of providing rich content that way. “@you Thanks for rubbing it in my face that I am not involved in your discussion” If you want a conversation with a potential client, partner, old friend or a new friend – if you are just there to talk, get a chat room will you?

 

Stay Positive & Interaction Is Personal, Content Is Public

Garth E. Beyer

If you are going to tweet someone “thank you”, send it to someone who knows how to use Twitter to provide content and use a chat room to talk about it

 

SocialMediaNoise& White Space

Garth Beyer

The problem at large with social media, particularly Twitter and Facebook, is that it is all noise and no white space.

Twitter is averaging less and less on click-throughs and I’m not surprised. Half the content shared is ridiculous (go click a couple of links if you don’t agree). The other half just blends in with all the other feed and the value is lost in noise. As for Facebook, all the content that is shared are pictures rarely offering any insight in which you seek. The terrible part is there is no white space in either.

Social media is about a constant flow of admired information but admired information is meaningless if there’s no white space after it to digest. That is why you may learn an idea, try to share it with someone, forget half of it and forget where you got the idea from. There was no time for it to cultivate and for the source to get credit. The noise and lack of white space is why more people are deleting “friends” on Facebook and unfollowing people on Twitter.

 Of course everyone is still using the constant feed stream, it’s one of the most valuable sources of information…when used correctly. Those who use the content stream properly are those who only click-through on valuable content tweeted, posted and shared by those in their tribe. Content they can interact with and the interaction is what creates white space and a further understanding of the content. The interaction turns the content into an experience which sticks to the memory.

Social media gives too much of an overload of info. If you are looking for something new without an expectation of solid content, then click a few Twitter links. If you want content, stick with Google. If you want an experience, use Twitter, Facebook and any social media with those who connect with you, that interact, that both, you and the person you’re interacting with, can expand and learn. That is why Twitter was held at such a high value, until too many people created too much noise. Curse the followback button

 

Stay Positive &    Make     More     White    Space 

Garth E. Beyer