Thinks I find along the way
We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because he cannot imagine what is meant by the offer of a holiday at the sea. We are far too easily pleased.
A great quote from Russ Shearer’s sermon Sunday…
Everyone who studies social media knows the importance of adding value. Social capital is earned by adding value to conversations and communities, and the lives of the people involved. But what we don’t usually think about is what happens when we don’t add value.
We tend to ignore or forget the fact that value in social media is a zero-sum equation. We focus on the importance of adding value, but we don’t adequately acknowledge the importance of not subtracting value. A better way to look at the relationship between social interaction and value transactions is with the following social media law of value:
In social media, if you aren’t adding value, you are subtracting value.
If you’ve ever worked with a designer or been on the designing end, you may see that the process can be a grueling one — especially if you don’t know what you want.
We’ve come up with a process at our company that weeds out 90% of the graphic issues but when the 10% happens, we have a process that is easily followed to achieve maximum results.
The key in having graphics done is to communicate, very clearly, what you want or need.
Follow the ‘via’ link for more wisdom from social media goddess Erin Blaskie…
7But whatever was to my profit I now consider loss for the sake of Christ. 8What is more, I consider everything a loss compared to the surpassing greatness of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whose sake I have lost all things. I consider them rubbish, that I may gain Christ 9and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but that which is through faith in Christ—the righteousness that comes from God and is by faith. 10I want to know Christ and the power of his resurrection and the fellowship of sharing in his sufferings, becoming like him in his death, 11and so, somehow, to attain to the resurrection from the dead.
Pressing on Toward the Goal
12Not that I have already obtained all this, or have already been made perfect, but I press on to take hold of that for which Christ Jesus took hold of me. 13Brothers, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, 14I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus.
Awesome sermon from Russ Shearer at Lakeside Community Church @ http://lakeside-church.com yesterday — may have something to do with the fact that he preached on my ‘life verse’…
Perhaps even worse than irritating your employer is irritating your employer by irritating the people your employer does business with. That was the lesson learned by James Andrews, a consultant hired by FedEx to come in to the company’s Memphis headquarters and give a presentation on social media. Unfortunately, shortly after his arrival, he announced on Twitter that he would die if he had to live in Memphis — and FedEx is pretty fanatically devoted to its Memphis location. A FedEx VP wrote Andrews a scathing letter — and cc’d his bosses. The gaffe was made all the worse because Andrews had come as an expert on social media.
Of course, sometimes it’s the listeners, not the speakers, whose rudeness is revealed. When David Galper of the Ruckus Network, a music service for college students, gave a speech to a large gathering of college professionals, all of whom found it deathly dull; they essentially began heckling the speaker on Twitter. Of course, all their snide commentary was public, and was quickly noted on a number of blogs. Ruckus soon went out of business, perhaps due to shame.
Follow the ‘via’ link for more good stories…
Bright, shiny objects! 
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