Two nights ago I attended the Social Media Club's event, "Getting it: Careers in Sociall Media" with guest lecturer/social media diva, Kelly Feller, Social Media Strategist for Intel. It was a full house, with at least 100 people there, and not people who I would have expected to be part of the Social Media Club. Many of the attendees were well into their careers and eating this stuff up!
There are companies big and small that understand Social Media, and companies big and small that don't. Two that get it and are tweeting away are @Starbucks(big) and @Portland Area Radio Council(small).
Social Media fascinates me because of the unknowns attached to it: it is new, everyone is doing it, not everyone knows why there are doing it, potential is unknown, will it peak, how to use it, keeping up with new sites and new trends and the list goes on and on and on...
Back to the lecture; I not only gained a few new followers on Twitter(I am following them now too), but I realized that everyone has a list of unknowns, we now have a place to share and learn together. I realized that I am doing the right thing by writing this blog, which has been in the works for over a month now, but I just started doing it, and that is the main thing.
JUMP IN!
The only way to master the skills and language of this new and limitless Social Media world is to do that. What have you got to lose except a few spare moments that you would have spent on another website anyway.
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