Connecting The Dots

So I went to the this seminar today while I should have had my tail working at my consignment shop and I learned something very valuable.

I bet you wanna know what it is? Well let me tell you.

It was about connecting the dots making everything relate to something else. It was a pretty cool seminar about how the internet is changing the face of media period. How we buy things, how we communicate, how one tweet can make or break a product or company because of how fast we tweet and how fast it gets around. I thought to myself "Wow I didn't think about it that way, shoot I just thought it was a way for some people to goof around online and make friends if they wanted with people they have never met and probably never will."

How wrong of me to think that this machine called virtual reality would be shaping our reality.

Then as the speaker went on he mentioned how the advent of the internet was changing everything from culture, employment, careers, livelihood........(ok put the breaks on)
See that's what I wanted to hear right there. Careers, employment, bottom line, making money. Or was it really about that?

Let me back up to what I am really trying to say as my mind takes me back to making money when I really want to talk about connecting the dots. Which is what I thought this post was all about. Right?

He mentioned how when we are online we need to be careful how we connect the dots since who we are online should really and most times does reflect who we are for real. For instance Facebook, MySpace...we post photos and videos of our lives all over that place. I know I do. I even posted a photo of me my daughter had while I was in a coma. My goodness how much more personal is that? So I started to lean forward as he continued making his point about these dots.

This sharp guy continued to tell how when you are online you need to be who you really are because people are pulling you up before they consider you for hire or for your services. Potential buyers are looking for a personal touch now and not just the product or service you offer. Hell they want all of you. They want to feel like they know you. It's like say for instance I'm in a place I have never been I will at least try to find a restaurant or something that I recognize or "know" so I would feel comfortable and purchase my sustenance there.

So this light went on in my head. It was like ok.........I get it. But who would really care about me, Mamma and my little world? What I'm doing and how I'm making moves in my life? I've never really connected the dots online to all of the places that I am in virtual reality.

Now as I notice that I use the internet more and more and live more and more based what is online the line is blurring and the dots are making a straight line. I never thought about it until I heard it mentioned at this seminar.

So tonite I begin the task of finding me online, and connecting all of the dots so it can make a straight line to ......Me.

THIS is going to be interesting.

Til next time, while I connect the dots and post them here of course

Mamma