The Social Media Minute 19 Feb 09

 

Social media online is where things are happening big time.  Either you are using it, or you are going to be left behind the 8-ball with dust in your face.  That is the power behind "online social networking."

This is not just my opinion.  This is a fact that is about to be put in the Smithsonian Institute on how fast this reality is growing.  I have heard several times how important it is to have a Facebook account if you want to get noticed in getting a career job.  I am sure that a job resume does tell a lot, but there are tons more that can be said.  I believe that social networking online can be a very powerful add-on to a job resume.

 

Social Network Marketing - The Wave of the Future

 

 

Blogging has to be the largest and most important tool in social networking.  I have several blogs on different ideologies.  I also love to write, share my ideas, and inspire others to live their lives to the fullest.  Hopefully in all my blog postings in all my blogs, I do my best to show the bright light of life among all the darkness that surrounds us from time to time.  Our economy issues are bad, but history has shown a lot worse.

That is why I believe that social networking is a major tool in allowing us all to go forward no matter what the adversity may be.  Communication is the key.  Social Networking has torn down a good many barriers that had faced us for decades.  We can communicate in real time and respond to what has been said a lot quicker then ever before.  In the past we relied on news casters to give us information.  Now we can give it out ourselves, a lot faster.

With the use of 3-D virtual reality services like SecondLife, we can do much more then simple communication.  We can present and create new ideas in this new environment.  People can even make real life money in this 3-D virtual environment.  What happens next is anyone's guess, because all it takes is the imagination of hard working individuals, and open minded individuals that will stop at nothing to get it done.  When the doors are opened more and more, there is no limit to what mankind can do.

That is what has made Social networking so big.  Everyone is allowed to do their own thing in life.  It also helps in not having government hands in it.  For once, true freedom reigns.  The name of the 3-D virtual reality, Second Life, is truly a second life.  It can be just as easy or as hard as one's first life.  The results one will get is by the old fashion way of doing things, "You earn it."

Only hard work has given us the wonders of social networking online.  If it is easily created, it can be just as easy or even easier to destroy it.  There is no such thing as an easy street.  In a big way, there is no such thing as luck, other then what you make out of a difficult situation.  There might be free software one can download, legally, but nothing is truly free.  Someone has to pay for all things in one way or the other.

While a lot are out of a job, getting started using all forms of social networking or social media formats can be very helpful in starting off in a new direction.  How many times have we all been told, "To get your foot in the door, you need to know the right kind of people?"  That is another powerful aspect of social networking, you can get to know a lot more people then you realize without worrying about giving out too much about yourself online.

Time to give a warning here:  NEVER EVER give out any personal information to anyone online for any reason whatsoever.  Use a pin (false name) in your accounts if needed.  Let the right people know who you are by your character not by your name, mailing address, email, etc.  We all have the right to our own privacy, period.

Now get out there and start experiencing the wonders of social networking.  There are out there for the taking.  Most are free while some are not.  The most popular are free, like Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, Friendfeed, Mixx, and many others.  Now go out there and check these services out.

 

Blessed Be to Isis and you,

 

 

Real Name:  Brandon Bowers

 

 

 

The Social Media Minute 19 Feb 09

Second Life Attempts to Stage a Rebirth

 

If this article does not prove that SecondLife is more then a game, then nothing may be convincing.  As with any new technology, it might start as a hobby or fun thing to tinker with.  Look at the history of the personal computer.  It hardly did anything compared to what it can do in the here and now.  We now have the Internet, 3-D virtual realties, like SecondLife, and many more wonders in years to come.

Text 100: Branding building in Second Life

 

 

At first SecondLife was a platform for technical geeks to get their feet wet.  Now people and businesses are making real life money inworld of SecondLife.  Believe it or not, they are making more money in SecondLife then in their previous jobs.  SecondLife is not an easy street.  There is no such thing.  If it is easy to make, then it will be even easier to destroy.  To get something done right, it takes a lot of time and hard work.

The success of SecondLife was not done over night.  SecondLife has been around for 5 years now.  A lot of things have changed and grown beyond the original idea that Linden Lab, the creator of SecondLife, had at the beginning.  With the economy bad all throughout the world, could SecondLife or any other future technology be the answer?  SecondLife does have a future, but it may not mean it is the solution.  Personally, I believe that it will take more than one concept to turn things around for the better.  SecondLife may be the form in witch things may progress to a better tomorrow, but there is a lot more that needs to be done in regarding the economic issues.

I have said this and I will say it again, I strongly believe that the major issues we all face throughout the world regarding our economic downhill battle are growing pains of moving from the machine/industrial age to the technical age of tomorrow.  Even in the United States of America, most governments, businesses, and even individuals do not use the technology of tomorrow as they should be doing.  Progress is not being comfortable within one's surroundings.  One must eventually get off their butts and be able to try new things for the better of life, business, or whatever.

Some businesses and individuals are using today's and tomorrow's technology, but sadly not enough of them.  Let's face it, the Internet is the most used thing today.  The Internet has grown very fast since the 1990s to the present day.  It started with BBS (Bulletins Boards) to 3-D virtual reality.  How wonderful is that, and how much has it shown that the technology age is here already.  The only direction techology is going is forward, faster and faster.

The article states that SecondLife can be difficult for new comers.  Of course it is difficult.  As with anything in life, beginners do have a ruff start, but through learning and applying what they have learned, the difficulties becomes understood.  How many years does a child have to live at home in order to be trained to live as an adult and one day on its own?  Using SecondLife is an constant on going process.  There might be books out there to learn the basics of how to use SecondLife, but there is not one book on how to live inworld.  As with real life, children are raised by parents are guardians.  If the child rearing is done right, the children will be ready when they become adults.

Bad training in the basic use of SecondLife is no different.  SecondLife is virtual reality of real life.  With slight differences, what you can do in real life, you can do in SecondLife.  That is why there are so many using this 3-D virtual reality.  What will happen tomorrow is anyone's guess.

 

Blessed Be to Isis and you,

 

 

Real Name:  Brandon Bowers

 

 

 

Second Life Attempts to Stage a Rebirth