So I've kinda been checking out other blogs as of lately. Mainly because I've tried to make the conscious effort to understand and get a little better at communicating through the use of the internet. I was once a skeptic and very anti internet social. I couldn't stand people that were into Twitter and thought "What's the point, I facebook, it's the same thing!" Well, It was probably just that I didn't understand what people were doing or how these other social networking sites were being used. Not only that but I had a big change in my outlook and perspective on things. 2009 was a very rough year for me as well as a lot of others out there and I realized there are things that I must change in order to get better at things that I felt were my weaknesses. Besides the more I looked around and observed the more I felt out of touch. It didn't really bother me except for the fact that I would look at my daughter and realize that she will be growing up with all of these things and they will be second nature to her. And as a parent I felt that I would want to understand the next generations of youth growing up with all this technology around them. I mean, I can't even imagine how things will change by the time she hits my age and I didn't want to get old not understanding my own child and her behavior. Besides there were quite a few things I felt that needed some improvement in my life as well. One being my communication skills with others, and where is a better place to begin than with on facebook. I mean I feel that in order to get better at communicating with those I don't know, I should at least get better at communicating with those that I do know. So I signed up for Twitter, became more active on Linked In, and even started a radio show on blip.fm. I'm still learning how to use and navigate these sites, but at least its put things on my radar. Like this great blog site called "Bit Rebels" http://www.bitrebels.com/ I've found some really good blogs to read. Founded by Richard Darell whom I guess has a previous successful blog called Minervity.com . Richard and his team of really good bloggers seem to find some great online content on a minute to minute basis. Now I know that some may think ah who needs minute to minute content. Well, you don't, but if you want to check it out, there's a site that you can check out and even edit through depending on your own interest. Besides, no one is pointing a gun to your head telling you, "you have to look into this and that" and "you have to be more active on the internet". I'm finding that as things are becoming more available and widespread. So is the freedom to find things out on your own time and at your own level. So far I'm pretty excited at some of the things I'm finding and doing on the internet! Its kind of a new open virtual frontier that you can choose to be a part of on your own time.
Thursday, February 18, 2010
Blogging on other Blogs!
So I've kinda been checking out other blogs as of lately. Mainly because I've tried to make the conscious effort to understand and get a little better at communicating through the use of the internet. I was once a skeptic and very anti internet social. I couldn't stand people that were into Twitter and thought "What's the point, I facebook, it's the same thing!" Well, It was probably just that I didn't understand what people were doing or how these other social networking sites were being used. Not only that but I had a big change in my outlook and perspective on things. 2009 was a very rough year for me as well as a lot of others out there and I realized there are things that I must change in order to get better at things that I felt were my weaknesses. Besides the more I looked around and observed the more I felt out of touch. It didn't really bother me except for the fact that I would look at my daughter and realize that she will be growing up with all of these things and they will be second nature to her. And as a parent I felt that I would want to understand the next generations of youth growing up with all this technology around them. I mean, I can't even imagine how things will change by the time she hits my age and I didn't want to get old not understanding my own child and her behavior. Besides there were quite a few things I felt that needed some improvement in my life as well. One being my communication skills with others, and where is a better place to begin than with on facebook. I mean I feel that in order to get better at communicating with those I don't know, I should at least get better at communicating with those that I do know. So I signed up for Twitter, became more active on Linked In, and even started a radio show on blip.fm. I'm still learning how to use and navigate these sites, but at least its put things on my radar. Like this great blog site called "Bit Rebels" http://www.bitrebels.com/ I've found some really good blogs to read. Founded by Richard Darell whom I guess has a previous successful blog called Minervity.com . Richard and his team of really good bloggers seem to find some great online content on a minute to minute basis. Now I know that some may think ah who needs minute to minute content. Well, you don't, but if you want to check it out, there's a site that you can check out and even edit through depending on your own interest. Besides, no one is pointing a gun to your head telling you, "you have to look into this and that" and "you have to be more active on the internet". I'm finding that as things are becoming more available and widespread. So is the freedom to find things out on your own time and at your own level. So far I'm pretty excited at some of the things I'm finding and doing on the internet! Its kind of a new open virtual frontier that you can choose to be a part of on your own time.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
0 comments:
Post a Comment