I started as Social Media Manager at SAS in December, 2008. I had a lot to learn back then, and I still do. On November 5, 2008, I had lunch with my friend Nathan Gilliatt, who, in the 30-some years since we first met, has become pretty knowledgeable about social media himself, and now blogs at The Net-Savvy Executive and Social Media Analysis, is principal of Social Target and publishes valuable social media research including the Guide to Social Media Analysis and Social Media Analysis Platforms for Workgroups.
Over a large sandwich, Nathan gave me a list of things I should know about and people I should follow if I wanted to ramp up my enterprise social media knowledge. I pasted that list into a sticky note on my iGoogle page, and it’s been there ever since. I just looked over it again and decided to post it here. It gives a brief, interesting glimpse of how things have changed in the last 20 months. I’m also not afraid to admit how little I knew about the tools of social media when I took on the job, other than blogging.
We all started somewhere, and we’re all learning.
Here’s a screen shot of the list. I spelled David Churbuck’s name wrong, as well as Pownce. Also, the Alltop link has changed to http://smbc.alltop.com/.
Tagged as:
nathan gilliatt,
social media
I was just perusing Facebook, as part of my getting-ready-to-write ritual. (It’s also part of my taking-a-break-from-writing ritual and my winding-down-from-writing ritual. Essentially, if it weren’t for Facebook, I could have finished this book in an afternoon.)
I came across a link to an article at PCMag.com entitled Suburu Slaps In-Car Wi-Fi into its 2011 Outback.
Interesting idea, but I was reading the article thinking, “I’m not sure it’s worth paying $29 a month for another Internet connection that you can only use in the car.” At least not for me. The only device I’m likely to connect when I’m in the car is my iPhone, and that’s already, you know, connected.
I am becoming increasingly averse to monthly fees. I will almost certainly cancel my XM Radio subscription, the next time I remember. Yes, there’s some good content, but there’s also lots of good content out there for free. (It should come as little shock that I spend the little time I have in the car alone listening to marketing podcasts like Six Pixels of Separation/Media Hacks, Marketing Over Coffee, For Immediate Release and Managing the Gray. Those are all free, as well as valuable. Those nine and ten and eleven bucks a month fees add up, after all. Then I came to this quote:
“We’ve said it before, and we’ll say it again: It doesn’t make sense to pay for most in-car Wi-Fi solutions from automakers,” writes editor David Thomas.
So I guess this idea isn’t playing very well with David Thomases.
Dad, what do you think?
photo by germanyengland
