tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-78732735466944449422024-03-13T04:55:33.936-07:00Seven to NineBlogging About Social Media, Business and the Business of Writing. Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05489512035948637287noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7873273546694444942.post-16030290134189383732014-10-09T17:50:00.002-07:002015-02-06T16:00:39.356-08:00Forgiving and Forgetting In A Social Media World<style>
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I saw something on Facebook yesterday that really bothered
me.</div>
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It was a nasty jab at a rather infamous White House intern
who made a grave mistake around 1995 that she has yet, almost 20 years later,
to either live down or be allowed to forget.</div>
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It made me wonder.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>In the world of social media, when do we get to put our mistakes behind
us?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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When do we get to be forgiven?</div>
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I’m going to say straight out that I’m not a huge fan of Facebook.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I feel compelled to log on at least
once a week because I have this vision—it’s a fear, really-- of meeting an old
friend who I haven’t seen in ages, who asks me if I’ve seen the pics of her
daughter’s wedding (insert graduation, birth, world tour) and I have to say,
no.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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Even though I wasn’t invited I still feel like a schmuck because
I neglected to write “gorgeous,” in response to the news. Even when, let’s face
it, coming from a relative stranger the comment would be meaningless.</div>
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But, back to the intern.</div>
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The post in question was forwarded from someone on my feed (and
before that came from someone I didn’t recognize) and as far as I could see, was
a jab about the intern turning 50 (she’s not even close to 50 btw—so it was as
a totally lame joke). Regardless of the origin, an opportunity for a laugh at
another’s expense, especially when the butt of the joke can’t defend, is still
just a cheap shot.</div>
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In my mind this is the same cyberbullying we hear so much
about that levels grade school and high school kids, and I suppose there’s a
part of me that sees that intern in the light of “there but for the grace of
you go I.” <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Here’s why:</div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1)<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span>Thank god above (and all the angels and saints in
heaven) that when I was 22 (the intern’s age at the time of the transgression) there
was no Facebook to chronicle all the silly things I did that I’d
rather forget (because believe me, many might have been the fodder of
well-meaning, amateur photographer friends). I know I have dozens of college
pals—and you do too--who feel the same way;</div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2)<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span>I’m the parent of two kids around the age the
intern was when she fell from grace. What do her dear mother and father suffer,
20 years on, from this constant, unrelenting bombardment of their darling
daughter (because we all desperately love our children, regardless of their
mistakes). They must be daily heartbroken. How long do they have to suffer this
picking at an old wound?</div>
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</span></span></span>Why can’t the intern be forgiven? Why? Why?
Why?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She was a young girl who,
granted made major mistakes, but didn’t we all at that age (see 1)? And why,
why, why hasn’t her collaborator suffered the same shame and mockery? In fact,
I would say that her collaborator has come out rather well. If not smelling
like a rose then at least like…I don’t know… cannibus that wasn’t inhaled?
(skunky, everybody wants some, its mostly legal and seriously lucrative). </div>
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Sounds like a double standard to me. But how is that ok? If
there are two people equally guilty of something, why does only one suffer long
after the fact while the other seems to sail away relatively unscathed (and at
the very least, long since forgiven)?</div>
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I could go on but the bottom line is that we all do/have
done things we’d rather forget we did.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>In the days before Social Media we could apologize and hope to move on.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But that’s not the world we live in now.</div>
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So, we have to adapt.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I get that.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But if we live
in world where we’re going to put everything we do out there, shouldn’t we evolve
into a species that’s far more forgiving? </div>
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Don’t we actually have to be more forgiving to survive?</div>
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Because let’s face it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>We all make mistakes. Big ones. All the time. Every moment of every day.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sometimes out in the open where, if we
ask, most of the time (but certainly not always--the intern being a case in point) we are forgiven even when we may have wounded deeply. Other times
our mistakes go unnoticed, hidden in the dark corners of those pious,
self-righteous minds we guard, that we pretend are so pure, so chaste.</div>
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And if we keep this up, insisting on putting ever moment of
our lives up for public view, won’t each and every one of us, in our time, make
public mistakes? <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span>Won’t we, or our
children, at some point be next in line for ceaseless scrutiny, mockery and unrelenting
bullying? </div>
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And then, won’t we deserve to be forgiven?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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And above all our mistakes forgotten?</div>
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<span class="irc_su" dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;">image: Paris Tuileries Garden Facepalm Statue. Image courtesy of wiki.media.org</span> </div>
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Listen Up</h2>
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Your Reputation May Depend On It</h3>
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It’s been a little over four weeks (five weeks and two days to be exact) since
I posted and according to Kerry Rego, one of our instructors at the SSU
Professional Social Media Certificate program, if you can’t manage to post once
a month, then you probably aren’t quite ready to launch a blog for your
business. </div>
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Fifty lashes with a wet noodle for me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I will try to do better.</div>
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Kerry has a lot more to say about social media than just
talking about the appropriate regularity of blog posts (although she does have
a great blog herself that can be found <a href="http://www.kerryregoconsulting.com/blog">here</a>). </div>
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She’s a talented social media marketer who also specializes
in protecting your reputation online.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>It’s the sort of thing you don’t think about, harboring a false sense of
security that you’re safe until one day you learn there’s a hidden Facebook
page or Twitter account about you that is anything but flattering.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Her insights on Snapchat are positively
terrifying!</div>
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I recently heard Ina Garten, the Barefoot Contessa, speak at
the Wells Fargo Center and someone in the audience asked her if she knew there
was a “Drunk Ina Garten” account on Twitter.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span>Apparently it’s
wildly popular.</div>
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Ina had no idea.</div>
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And while the Barefoot Contessa brand is fairly safe—that
evening her adoring fans just about wept with delight at her every
pronouncement—a more fragile brand might not fare as well.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The moral of the story? Keep your ears
peeled and know what’s being said about you.</div>
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There’s something else about Kerry Rego.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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She’s never, ever boring.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And on Thursday nights, as the hands of that standard issue classroom
clock swing towards 9:30pm, this student (and I believe all the others, too)
thanks the SSU Social Media Gods for bringing us someone who has important
things to say and says them in a way that keeps us all awake. </div>
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Charlie Chaplin Photo credit: http://i2.wp.com/moviessilently.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/city-lights-1931-charlie-chaplin-silent-movie-review-image-23.jpg?resize=600%2C350</div>
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The SSU
Professional Social Media Certificate Program continues to be an enlightening
experience although my favorite class thus far was the service learning evening a few
weeks back.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We students were
charged with explaining to volunteers from the SSU faculty about the social
media channels we felt we knew the most about.</div>
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I felt pretty shaky about all of them but chose Linkedin and
worked with Angela, a recruiter at a software firm, to help an SSU professor
brainstorm about marketing tactics for his current and upcoming books,
published papers and professional speaking appearances. </div>
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Angela had a very firm grasp of Linkedin and was exceedingly helpful to the Professor. And surprisingly, it
turns out I knew more than I realized and was able to take years of marketing
experience and apply it to ways the Professor could use Linkedin to reach his
target audience.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was an
outstanding experience and gave me a boost of confidence about using social
media in general and Linkedin in particular.</div>
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Weeks ago, Merith set up a special Linkedin group just for
our inaugural class and we’ve been posting and commenting ever since.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Angela put up an interesting piece
this week about a woman who was publically exposed by someone who extended an invitation
to connect and got an outrageously snarky and mean-spirited response.</div>
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My grandmother always said never write anything down that
you wouldn’t want published on the front page of the local newspaper. Ms. Blazek
should have been given the same advice.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Granted, the response could have been her reaction to a horrifying day
in which she’d just heard some terrible news either about herself or a loved
one.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In other words she could have
been acting out—something that, let’s face it, we’ve all been guilty of at one
time or another. But how she couldn’t have imagined her remarks might travel beyond
the woman asking for the connection to, at the very least, her group of friends
and associates, is beyond me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Even more confusing, the Blazek woman was in the business of giving advice about getting
work.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Isn’t that sort of like
being in the business of selling shoes and reaming someone out for asking to
see that boot in a size 7?</div>
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Bad manners aside, the story has stuck with me all week long
and got me to thinking what social media really means.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Social doesn’t mean intimate and there
was a "familiarity breeds contempt" sort of intimacy about Ms. Blazek’s response
that I see all too often in comment sections on blogs and newspapers. Respondents
often resort to personal digs and name calling (and much worse) when they read
an opinion with which they don’t agree.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>There’s nothing social about being mean but that’s where we are.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sometimes it feels like while social
media has given us greater access to our publics, our manners haven’t yet
caught up. </div>
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Remember Rodney King?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Can’t we all just get along?</div>
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I'd love to hear what you think? Is the "social" in social media misplaced? </div>
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photo credit: http://www.flickr.com/photos/mike52ad/4675715489/</div>
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<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/mike52ad/4675715489/">Michael
1952</a> via <a
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marked the first night of class for the #SonomaState Professional Social Media
certificate program. It's the first time SSU has offered the program, and
according to John Kenyon, the SSU instructor slated to teach the metrics
portion, there's already a waiting list for the fall
semester. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">I'm not
surprised. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">The first
class was a bit of a jumble with all of us having to go across campus to secure
our passwords but once that was taken care of, we got down to it, starting with
getting to know one another.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">The class is
a cross section of age, career and gender, which makes comments and questions
all the more interesting. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">But different
though we may be, we all seem to share at least two things in common: 1) a
curiosity about how we can bring what we learn into the world; and 2) a genuine
enthusiasm for the subject matter. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">I haven’t
taken a poll (just yet) but it seems most of our shared interest comes as a
result of the business world embracing social media—granted some earlier to the party
than others <a href="http://www.wineindustryadvisor.com/2014/02/04/wineries-report-increased-use-of-social-media/">(the wine business has been notoriously slow on the up take)</a>. And
while our enthusiasm is organic, it’s definitely enhanced by the passion of the
current instructor, Merith Weisman. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">An anthropologist by training, Merith really
knows her way around this stuff and seemed to have an instant rapport with her
students.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At the end of the first
class, as many of us were clamoring at her all at once (I for one was foaming
at the mouth about not being able to navigate around my Prezi), she remained
calm and smiling.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>All I could think
was, “that woman has the patience of Job.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The word unflappable came to mind.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">As to the
Prezi, I’d never heard of one before. Oh, what's a Prezi you ask?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">It's a digital presentation platform that at least to my mind, makes
Powerpoint seem static, ancient and boring. Once I got the hang of it, I
found it easy to navigate and dare I say…fun (all those bubbles remind me just
a little of champagne).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Maybe most
importantly, I was gratified when I asked the two recent college grads staying
with me for the weekend if they'd ever heard of it and they both said no. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Wow,
something <i>I know</i> that someone under thirty doesn't know that has to do with
technology? </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">The class
just paid for itself.</span></div>
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Among many other topics related to social media (too many to
list here), during our second meeting we discussed the assigned reading.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I hadn’t thought about it before but it
makes sense that weaker ties can be leveraged better than closer ties. I’m not
as likely to trust an endorsement about your best friend, but I’ll trust what
you say about someone you worked with on a project.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Did we just describe the Linkedin business model?<br />
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<span style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">At one point, Merith said something
that struck me; it’s called Social Media for a reason. It's
about being social, about joining the conversation, talking with, not at, a
larger audience. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">I realize that my having to think about that might seem strange, but the fact is that what we're talking about here is social (warm) rolled up into technology (cool). For those of us born (quite a bit) before Jay Leno took over the Tonight Show, technology still carries with it the slightest hint of "other."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Obviously I have a lot to learn.</span></div>
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I’ve been meaning to start a blog for a while, I thought it might be fun to
blog about my journey through this course from the prospective of a
writer who isn't yet comfortable using social media in a professional
capacity.</span></div>
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start a conversation and see where it goes.</span></div>
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What about you? <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What are your thoughts on the #SonomaState Professional Social
Media certificate program?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Leave a
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