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Facebook Leads the Present and Happiness

March 7, 2013 By Leave a Comment

I’m noticing more and more people talking about their lives on Facebook. It’s usually when you turn your head to a monitor or peek towards a smartphone or tablet that you realise that what you’re looking at is the Facebook homepage. I see mums and dads, sons and daughters sitting at a table and logging on to Facebook to see what’s going on. I experience dinners with friends, work colleagues or clients where the first thing they do is to ‘check in’, or update their Facebook status or send a tweet saying that they’re with the person they’re actually sitting next to. The funny thing comes when we decide to take a picture and upload it to Facebook for hundreds/thousands of people to see, or perhaps use Instagram. I’ll own up to the fact that I’ve done it and still do it, yet would prefer not to do it so often.

I’ll Exchange the Present for Facebook

We are so often obsessed by the social media fever –or, social networking- that we miss what’s going on in the moment. In a sunset I experienced very recently, I was impressed to notice that practically 80% of the people there were taking pictures of the moment for later. More or less 50% of them would be uploading them to Facebook; my curiosity took the better of me and I asked many of them, with most of them confirming my hypothesis. On the other hand, only a few were actually enjoying the sunset. They were all logged on to Facebook, following their friends’ and family’s lives.

Some time ago, e-mail was the top online priority. I wonder whether the social media have taken on that role now or, on the contrary, if they still come in second.

Facebook, the Verb

Here in Las Salinas, in Ibiza, where I live, there is a store 300 metres from home. I stopped there the other day to buy some water and fruit. There were two girls there who knew each other and seemed to have met there. One of them said (in English), “OK, I’ll Facebook you if we go out partying.” She didn’t say, “I’ll call you”. No, she said “I’ll Facebook you.” The verb.

How I See Facebook

I’m not a great Facebook fan. I like sharing my life with my friends. I don’t have an official fan page (though many have asked.) I’ll probably never have one, just like I’ll probably never be a superstar, an “Expert” or a “Guru” to have one. I do have an account with not too many friends, close to 2,000 (I’ve been on Facebook almost 4 years now.) I try to be selective and critical about my connections on Facebook. They’re my friends, those close to me, the people I want to share moments with. Not everyone. Sorry, I like to keep certain things about my life private to myself. I believe that almost all of my “friends” who are on Facebook –approximately 75%- belong to my inner circle of friends and family. Through Facebook I can follow the things that take place in their lives. I can take a look at pictures of their events, I can follow health-related news of the people I love. I can learn about their achievements, all those things we used to write letters or make a phone call about. That is how I see Facebook; at least in this context.

What about Facebook for business, as a professional or marketing tool? I haven’t reached that point yet. I still feel out of that game. I’m still trying to find out the magic formula.

However, I do believe that Facebook has changed the feeling of experiencing and enjoying the moment by the act of announcing to the world that you’re experiencing and enjoying that moment. It has changed your happiness by theirs.

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Launching isragarcia.com: Building Human Media Interactions

August 31, 2011 By 4 Comments

isra garcia- human mediaI’m finally launching my International blog: isragarcia.com.

I’m working with Oana Damian (Occasional guest posts and fluency quality control), Vicente Mora from Pim Pam Estudio (Design and creativity) and Dámaso González from Circulorojo (Web development, integration and implementation) A bunch of worldwide professionals will also join me along the path, it will be an exciting experience! Thanks to all of them for bearing with me.

I’ll be focusing on New Media, Human Business Interactions and what’s beyond Social Media and the Social Web, I’ll be talking about Human Media and how brands, people and organizations thrive harnessing the power of human media.

I had something to say to the entire world, this is why I’ve created isragarcia.com. I’ve built this platform for helping people and businesses to understand Human Media: The New Media. Thus, how human interactions are the key for the future success of businesses and brands.

I started following a map years ago – and I’m very happy to see where it has brought me. All is connected and has to do with my new role as international advisor.

The meaning lies where’s no sense.

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What You Can Learn

September 2, 2010 By Leave a Comment

hope you learn something else than nothingPrepare yourself to be outside your comfort area…

  • If you embace change , you can learn how to succeed tomorrow.
  • If you don’t accept the commandments of this brainwashed society, you can Learn how to be an insubordinate.
  • If you break the rules, you will find that life is easier that people think.
  • If you ask your university teacher why is she using the same book as your sister did 10 years ago, you can learn that paying attention to your curiosity makes you different.
  • If you think outside the box and seek what is truly helpful and valuable for you, you can learn how to be an irreverent
  • If you realize that by your own, you can make a difference in this world, you can learn that impossible is nothing.
  • If you challenge the people that tells you how to behave and what to do, you can learn who are you
  • If you say yes where everybody else say no, you can learn how to be the best in the world.

So…If at any time you choose learning something, hope will be this…draw your map, be a Mapmaker.

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What Happened with Marketing?

August 12, 2010 By Leave a Comment

What happened with marketing?Where’s Marketing? Isn’t trendy anymore? Doesn’t offer value for money as did it before?

What happened? Has suddenly Marketing mutated to a new form called Social Media Marketing? or it’s now Digital Marketing, as other people like to call it…Marketing 2.0 maybe? I wonder, if Marketing has just being replaced…or perhaps, it’s waiting for the right moment to make its unexpected appearance.

Has Marketing stopped making its well-known noise? – yeah, some of you call it conversation, right? – Does it means that Marketing has felt sleep? Or on the contrary, is marketing preparing a new revolution?

I just don’t know what happened with Marketing. Am I different from a couple of years ago? – Heck, I started in Marketing and now…what the hell! – I don’t see it anywhere….

I only can hope – and wholeheartedly wish – that we never forget it! Because, at the end we’re just looking for common sense.

What say you?

What happened with Marketing?

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What makes us give the best of ourselves?

July 8, 2010 By 2 Comments

This post was first published on the General Management UPDATE! for Fundesem Business School, area in which I participate as a guest blogger every 2 weeks. Thanks to Enrico Ahrens and Oana Damian for this wonderful opportunity.

Let’s think for a moment…How do you overcome difficulties? how do you surpass your own expectation? what motivates you? what makes you go beyond the line? or what is the reason that pushes you going the extra mile?

Yeah, it may sound foolish to ask this…You could reply my family, money, work, prestige, success or any material thing, and that’s OK, even it’d make sense! But, thinking carefully and paying attention to small details, we could be inspired by things like:

Fear is your strength

Let’s say I’m your boss and I told you that we’re about to close the company, because of the starting of the dramatically decline of textile on Spain. Everything you had fought for, all your dreams, your future and more important your family and their future. As days go by, things are getting worse, until the day we’ve to close the company and you and me have to start a new life from the bottom line, at that moment fear is running through your body. Is this the end? Are you kidding me? it’s only the beginning. I’m going to be clear in this; It’s OK being scared, so am I most of the times, we all scare for some different reasons, stop worrying about yourself, show people what is inside of you, don’t be afraid of being yourself and being fearful. Because if you do so, and deeply believe in you, in who you are and what you do, you will become what you know you already are, so go and have some fear, it what really awakes our brave self.

Be Proactive!

Being proactive it’s one of the key elements. We always must – and this is a great must – try to see solutions instead of problems, make things happen and not wait them to happen. It’s essential to us assuming and believing that everything occurs is under our area of influence, so we’ll always be able to choose. I like to thing that we’re the only ones responsible for our acts, hence we and only we, tailor our decisions either they’re right or wrong. we need and should want to make mistakes – and of course, recognize them and ask for forgiveness when we feel to – because experience has taught me it’s an unforgettable way to learn and improve,  are you OK with me? I am open to admit failure, as I believe it is also a great path to learn. What say you? Give a go and plan for failure, I sometimes plan for falling, hence I am ready to stand up and carry on. we don’t want to afford what people can think about us, it’s something that I am not concerned about at all. That is to say, know who you are, what  you can do, what you want to do and who you want o be. I know that  you change things – I am doing it now – though, which is even greater for me it is, I have realized I want help people changing things – perhaps you – improving their life, being proactive or trying to find a meaningful goal.

Attitude is the Key

It’s the only thing that will make you fall part from the mediocrity, and yes it’s learnable! but it’s a long road to walk, hope you’re ready. Sir Richard Branson used to say “Hire from attitude and train for skills”, want to know what is going to make you indispensable? I bet you know…heck, it’s the Attitude, towards life, work, family, friends, problems…life is not the way it’s, but the way we want to see it.

You’re Free!

I realize now of how happy I’m, happy because I feel completely free to build my story. I don’t let anybody decide or choose for me, not to mention the circumstances or facts. I’ve always managed my life in my way, I’m not going to judge the way it has been, – I’m not here for that – I only can judge the way I’ve made it possible. Your mileage could vary, but I’m sure you get the point!

Question Everything!

Change hasn’t been made by asking permission, but for asking forgiveness. It’s OK being irreverent, being curious and think outside the box, and of course it’s better acting in that way, you’ll find yourself in troubles most of the times, but someone said once that life it’s a beautiful struggle – I really love this quote! – OK, I can hear you saying that there’s no point of acting in that way without thinking in the consequences, yeah, OK, fine! However, think about a job for a life, a safe environment, TV advertisement, newspaper industry, call dealers or automated behaviors taught in school days…we live in a society where we’ve been planned to act in a very common way, the question is…does it mean that we’re doing it Right? or someone installed the wrong program?

What really interests you

It’s learning about life, developing yourself as in the professional as in the personal side, know more about everything, get new approaches, travel around the world, meet other cultures/people, your family and best friends or solve economic issues. It works too, if it makes you happy, of course. Are you in the list? get your reasons.

Your Soul

It’s vital feeding your soul…Knowing that my family and best friends believe in me. freedom, joy, do what I want to do when I want to, change, finding a partner equal to me and be loved works greatly well for me? what about you?

What about your Goals?

Set up a short/mid/long-term goal and set up deadlines to carry out them. It will make you go further that you can think. Makes sense?

Be a Catalyst for Change!

I believe in change as a part of human nature and as a part of everyone’s life. I consider change as a challenge, a challenge that keeps us aware, ready, flexible and expectant. I think change is the engine that makes us improve, expand our knowledge and gain valuable experience, as well as it’s be able to show us things from a different perspective. I’d dare to say that I embrace change in the sense of the meaning. Why? It’s simple. You cannot resist changing, because change wanders among us every day, so it’s impossible to fight the forces of change. What’s more, today, it’s even more difficult not to accept that change is becoming part of our day-to-day, hence trying to stop change  is exhausting.

I BELIEVE embracing change is something that has to do with thinking different, being irreverent, acting different, being yourself, do whatever it takes, challenge the status quo or stands out from the crowd. I do like to think that’s fun shaking your life from time to time to see what happens. Then, change is how ready you’re to adapt and deal with these new waves.

Vision for the Future

Note how I set apart vision from goals, I think it’s completely different. What’s your dream? How do you want being remembered when you die? What would you like people say about you when you won’t being with us? difficult to assume, but essential to understand. Set up an attainable and realistic dream, it has to be aligned with your values and principles and should respect your morals and ethics. Mine “Follow my dreams wherever they may go, and do whatever it takes to reach and make them possible”

How do you think you’ll reach your vision for the future? that’s to say, How are you going to meet this dream? Do you know it? Nice! Now put it in words that make sense. Not as easy as you thought, huh? I’ll give you mine here too:

“It is reaching the highest standards of my values and principles, through determination, commitment, imagination, freedom, choice and empowerment. Whilst, I am irreverent, thoughtful and optimistic about life and change.”

Know your Mission

Are you tracking me? As I said earlier in this post your mileage may vary or even the keywords can be different, here I’m just telling you what it works for me – and it does it extremely well – when you find what it moves you, that is the first step, now apply, integrate in your life and make a comprehensible usage of them.

You?

How does it work for you? How does it sound?

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We Are Social Media Adventurers

June 18, 2010 By Leave a Comment

Are We Social Media Adventurers?

Yes, we’re, indeed! Why? Because, I believe it’s exactly what we do, we are social media adventurers searching for new paths that lead to revitalizing and energizing experiences. We not only play strong, have fun and try, but we do all this things in a very different way, every time we face challenges and most of the times with uncertainty, fear and risk, isn’t it exciting?

As social media adventurers, we believe that in today’s world a single person can make a difference, we’re IRREVERENT by nature and also, determined to at least try to make things happen, and… If we fail, be sure we’ll get up and “try different” – again and again - until we make it possible.

We are here to say YES, where everyone else says NO, but also showing them that we’re able to engage communities through Social Media marketing. With Social Media, we can create movements and start leading small communities or bigger ones. But more important than this, it makes people believe that the change is possible. We have a big responsibility that goes far from our daily job in the office. We’ve the opportunity to tell others how to change the world!

As brave adventurers, we know where we are going and how to get there, but this isn’t enough for us, we always like to transcend our limits and go beyond the common communication and marketing barriers, so we will be able to offer an unforgettable interaction experience to our audience.

Undoubtedly, Social Media is a new world to explore and discover. I believe that as Social Media adventurers, we’re always looking to open new footpaths, we’re in a continuous search of new stimulus and excitements that makes feel us “hooked” to the Social Media adrenaline! This at the same time causes an irreversible addiction, which always claims for more and more challenges and breathtaking experiences – heck, I can’t wait for more! -

As Social Media Adventurers, we’re comfortable and familiar with taking great risks, we embrace change, mainly because we believe that the only constant thing it’s the change itself, no matter if the result wasn’t the expected outcome, we’re ready to take the lead and keep on playing, even harder than ever, because…have I mentioned it before? We deeply believe in ourselves every day of our lives and it turns being the best strategy!

As Social Media Adventurers, we are naturally irreverent – Yeah, I love being irreverent and I’ve mentioned this above - we’re eager to stand out from the crowd and challenge the Status-quo with our visions, beliefs and principles, but above all, doing this with an unstoppable wish to help the community and brand compelling reasons to believe in themselves. At the end, change’s made by changing, so we won’t hesitate to go the extra-mile for establishing human relationships and tying brand and communities.

As Social Media Adventurers, we are all struggling in the jungle and resisting the supernatural forces of change. However, what makes us unique is – in words of my friend Enrico, ”we’re fans of the flexible planning“. That is to say, we move at the same time as trends and market opportunities, evolving at the same time as the social media ecosystem. We’re ready to ride the waves, we’re ready to take positions and emerge from the bottom as Social Media Adventurers who are willing to take the pulse of this new communication and marketing reality. Nevertheless, we can’t do it alone, we need you, we need you to join us and be our sidekick, our wing man. We want to share what we’ve learned, because as Social Media Adventurers – who have get through endless successes and failures - we all we know that, no matter how unbelievable and breathless our journey is, it doesn’t make any sense if we cannot share this experiences and adventures with somebody, this is the best gift that we can deliver, share both successes and failures… And not only share them, but celebrate them too. Okay, it’s obvious that successes are celebrated. Now have you failed? Great! Heck with the failure itself, celebrate it! Failure means the opportunity to learn something new.

As Social Media Adventurers, we serve to a cause, you! So, despite the depth of the gap, we’re determined to dig in the online world to find the best opportunities that can guide you to build a better future for yourself, your brand and those around you.

As Seth Godin said: “Good enough has stopped being good enough long time ago, now we´ve the opportunity of being great”! Let me add: “With Social Media, Yes! So…Why don’t we take it?”

Are you with me? What do you think?

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Get your ID and Make a Difference – On Fundesem General Management UPDATE Series

June 8, 2010 By Leave a Comment

Now I’m writing for Fundesem Business School in its UPDATE series every 2 weeks. Therefore, I’ll link my No-Blog to the UPDATE, so you can take a look and get some new material to work on.

Over Fundesem General Management UPDATE, I wrote about  Get your “ID” and Make a Difference , about how people can find their “ART” in life (personal and professional) and make the whole difference. Pay close attention to the advice. People who tried, got some interesting experiences that helped them a lot (I’m one of them…)

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My 3 Words for 2010

January 2, 2010 By 6 Comments



Inspired by Chris Brogan and his post my 3 words for 2010, where he talks about 3 words that are being used as a guidance for setting and accomplishing goals, I’ve come up with my 3 own words for 2010, which I’d like to share with all of you.

Time

I should be more efficient with time management. It’s time to establish deadlines and patterns for processes as social media, mailing or meetings. I do believe that if I could optimize the time I spent in every task, project, tactics, process or strategy and determine the amount spent in each, I could make my day-to-day more productive and profitable.

Learn

As Socrates said: “I only know that I don’t know anything”. I really think that acting in that way will give me a deep sense of learning and will take me apart from the arrogance and the self-perfection. Therefore, I’ll learn from every person, situation, decision, action or whatever is ever made along the road.

Apply

As someone said to me once: “You may broaden your knowledge and perhaps you’ll learn a lot but, what is the point if you don’t put in practice what you’ve learnt?” I’ve never realized of that before but…I totally agree, it doesn’t make sense if you don’t apply what you read/hear/learn. I’ll start developing ideas about:

  1. What I already know
  2. What I’m learning/reading/hearing/observing as I go
  3. What I’ll learn/read/hear/observe through life’s journey

Hope this make sense.

And you? What are your 3 words for 2010?

I’d like to thank Chris Brogan for this insightful idea.

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I wish you 365 Christmas days

December 25, 2009 By Leave a Comment

What does Christmas means?

It is the tenderness of the past, the value of the present and hope for the future…

…It is the warm hug of a familiar when we got home

…the special stare you exchange with that special person

…the happiness of enjoying of all your relatives

…the most sincere hope that we could be near of our loved ones.

…the wish that every path we take will lead us to peace.

…the encountering with those who we dream to see.

…to vent our feelings.

…remembering those who are no longer among us, but will always prevail in our hearts.

…amaze the youngest, because they are the kings of Christmas

…realize that the true and pure Christmas spirit lies only on the children hearts.

…be willing to rectify the mistakes we’ve all ever committed at anytime.

…coping with the past strongly and with total determination.

…forgiving those people who have been unfair to us at some point in our lives.

…giving to those who have not.

…reconciling with those who were once part of our lives.

…accepting oneself as one really is.

…appreciate as humans beings the good that we have and not the evil.

…not stop in the wrong we did, but in what the good chances that there is still ahead of us.

…seeing what we are capable to do, because we do not know who we are until we see what we can do.

…the wish of being every day a better person.

…the impatience to face challenges.

…not wait for an incredible thing happen, but you make it happening.

…to do our dreams and goals.

…to engage and be committed to overcome the toughest obstacles.

…to say ”I love you” to the people around you.

…defining new purposes for after reach the peak.

…all for a few, nothing for many.

…an instant or perhaps lasts forever?

…Is it a state of mind or perhaps a indescribable feeling?

…Is this long-awaited moment or perhaps this one unexpected?

…It is…

All of this and less more is Christmas for me so, I would like we to stop for a moment, just one second of our hectic and busy lives, and deeply think about the true meaning of Christmas, What really is Christmas?

Forgive my presumption and my disrespect, but I firmly believe that Christmas is on February 6, April 21, June 15, October 19th or even the entire month of May … Christmas is every day, because Christmas is inside us. We make Christmas every time we believe, love and share because, Christmas is not a period of time, not a habit, not a commercial action, nor a consumer movement, not even a commitment or debt, Christmas is into us every day of our entire lives. There is no need being a special day to celebrate it.


I like to think that there is no need to wait for Christmas to do all these things. I hope you do not wait until it is too late …

Whether this happens or not only depends on you!

I urge you making a particular Christmas time every day of your life

I wish you 365 Christmas days to you and all your loved ones.

And you? What does Christmas means for you?I’d like to hear from you…

All the best in life’s journey.

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Why we should love Social Media

December 14, 2009 By 5 Comments

It’s 1:32 am, I’m sitting in front of my laptop trying to figure out why we’re so dedicated to my “social” crowd, why we cannot go to the bed without a clear idea of a new post for tomorrow, why hundred of thousands of people connect every day for helping one each other, sharing content, new insights, different approaches, exchanging experience or enhancing their knowledge, for instance. Why there’s so much information it could barely be handled, why we’re so puzzled for this thing called Social Media. Is it hate? addiction? Fads? devotion? I think it must being love, if so, why? I wonder why should we love Social Media?

human media - isra garcia

Well, these aren’t easy questions to answer if you don’t see the “Social Media side“ of Social Media, which is being easily explained on my earlier post: Social Media With Ease.

Having said that, let’s focus on why we should love Social Media.

“Business facts” about why we are crazy in love with Social Media

  • Making connections we can partner with in future projects
  • The possibility to offer concrete solutions as for individuals as businesses, through social media
  • Bringing the buzzword “Social Media” to life in ways that truly make sense (and make a tangible difference to the bottom line)
  • The wide array of people Social Media exposes us to.
  • A common way to unify, work with and across disciplines (marketing/communication/advertisement)
  • Helping new businesses get up and going with an Internet presence and seeing them increase revenue and ultimately cut costs
  • Allows us to use platforms for carry out effective communication and set up a strategy for every area of social media.

On the other hand, we also can talk about reasons less “biz orientated”.

“All to all” communication

One of the aspects we should love Social Media is the ‘all to all communication’ – which I deeply explained in Social Media with ease - I consider it’s the basic definition behind social media concept.  Unlike traditional media which work under the concept of communication “you to all”. The Tools that social media offer us make possible to store and distribute content created in nature by several people, this content allows interaction, participation, collaboration and redistribution by others. I think it has a lot to do with sharing content.

Getting social

We should also love Social Media for the fact of “getting social”.
Let me explain it, Getting social does not just mean having a MySpace page a Linkedin profile or a Facebook account – it is far beyond that. Getting social is really the defining difference between the future and the traditional marketer.

In the past, it was all about providing information to your readers – the communication was a one-way street. Social media is all about the folk and giving them a voice – therefore making it a two-way street.

Let’s define the different ways of being social

There are different types of social media and each category has different focus (with some overlap in functionality):

  • Social Networking is probably the most widely known Web 2.0 term. From MySpace to Facebook, LinkedIn, and other similar sites, the focus of social networking is to connect you with others – your friends, people with similar interests, potential employers, and then give you the opportunity to find more connections as your profile grows.
  • Social Bookmarking (like del.icio.us, Furl, Ma.gnolia) sites allow you to organize your favourite sites, tag them for keywords, and keep them all in one place. Very handy. However, what makes these sites social is the ability for you to share them with others.
  • Social Recommendation sites combine the best of social networking and bookmarking to create user-generated recommendation sites. Sites likeDigg, Netscape and StumbleUpon encourage users to send items they like and then give others the opportunity to vote on them. There are also a large crop of smaller niche sites like BizzBites, Sk*rt, Babblz, BUMPzee and such that are evolving to cater to the specific needs of certain audiences.
  • Social Content sites include Flickr, YouTube, and wikis to name a few. These are sites where users create and manage content from photos to videos, information on a topic, and everything in between.
  • Other sites such as MyBlogLog, Technorati, and Blog Catalog give users the ability to network, bookmark and recommend all under one handy roof.

Of course we could talk about the variety of tools that social media offer us:

Communication

Blogs: Blogger, LiveJournal, Open Diary, TypePad, WordPress, Vox,
 ExpressionEngine, Xanga
 Micro-blogging: Twitter, Plurk, Tumblr, Jaiku, fmylife
 Social networking: Bebo, Facebook, LinkedIn, MySpace, Orkut, Skyrock,social media platforms
 Hi5, Ning, Elgg
 Social network aggregation: NutshellMail, FriendFeed
Events: Upcoming, Eventful, Meetup.com

Content sharing

Wikis: Wikipedia, PBwiki, wetpaint
Social bookmarking (or social tagging): Delicious, StumbleUpon, Google Reader, CiteULike
Social news: Digg, Mixx, Reddit, NowPublic
Opinion sites: epinions, Yelp

Multimedia

Photo sharing: Flickr, Zooomr, Photobucket, SmugMug, Picasa

Video sharing: YouTube, Vimeo, sevenload

Livecasting: Ustream.tv, Justin.tv, Stickam
Audio / Music Sharing: imeem, The Hype Machine, Last.fm, ccMixter, Awdio, Spotify

Reviews and opinions

Product reviews: epinions.com, MouthShut.com
FAQ Communities Yahoo! Answers,
WikiAnswers, Askville, Google Answers

Entertainment

Advertaiment: Cisco Eos
Virtual worlds: Second Life, The Sims Online, Forterra
Game sharing: Miniclip, Kongregate

Others

Information aggregators: Netvibes, Twine (website)

Share, share, share and people will Believe in you

Another aspect we’ll fall in love with, is sharing information with our network, friends, colleagues, customers or even people we bump into in the online world. Social media has changed the tide of the entire communication world, we’d better not keep the information for yourself. I say this just because, we’ll not be able to hold it under our influence for a long. This is how social media is changing the world, letting flow the streams of information among the different communication channels, aiming at a common benefit. Honestly, I do think no matter who we share with… if you really possesses knowledge why not share why the folks? Let the world know what we know and we’ll be rewarded with a very deep sense of self-fulfilment, improvement and satisfaction, there’s no competitive advantage which lasts forever.

First listening, for later on, sharing and giving, will grant you with a respected voice that people will definitely listen. Consequently, the audience will start to believe in you as an authority in your field.

Relationship and networking

Fortunately, and in part thanks to social media, I’ve been able to Connect and Establish professional relationships with fantastic and very interesting like-minded people, from around the globe. we’ve exchanged contents, resources, data, ideas,etc. I’m very grateful to them for it because, I’ve learnt how people see things from a different perspective, not to mention knowledge and experience have I acquired, thanks to them too. At the end, I’ve realised that the more people you exchange views and approaches the more you enhance your knowledge.

Surely, you’ll find authentic, sincere, genuine and helpful people always ready to give you a hand or even offer a guidance in a step you’re willing to take.
To name a few:

  • Establishing partnerships
  • Introducing suitable business contacts
  • Referring you to their clients
  • Trying to find a job in a foreign country

My take

Next January I’m going to take a break and travel to the States to expand my views in Marketing and social media and, studying how things approach from there -I do reckon it’s a must-do for every marketer, if she/he want to have a global perspective of the market and having an idea of what is coming – Therefore, I am looking for new prospectives and approaches for the time I’ll be in The States- it’d be great, if I can find a part-time job, so I can combine with my studies -.After, when I finish my studies, I’d like to find a full-time job because, I would like to get as much experience as I can in The States.

As a result I started to contact with my network explaining them the situation… Amazingly, almost everybody I contacted with, have offered me different opportunities that went from introducing me to people who is looking for similar profiles as mine, to arranging interviews for when I arrive at the States. Furthermore, there have been people as Pat Beaird, Gary R Cook, Dianna Harrold or Orietta Ramirez (to name a few), who I’d like to say thanks for the effort they put on helping me in every step I took.

This has taught me one more time that human being is simply marvellous; we never know who are we going to find in our way and how this interaction can change our path, though what I’ve already find out is, every person you meet, every relationship you make or every contact you add to your network, definitely will play a role in your life. Now perhaps you’re asking, to what extent they’ll play a crucial role?… well, it depends on the degree of engagement you build with your social crowd.

I’ve to admit that human interaction is what I love the most of Social Media.

As you can see we couldn’t say just about one thing about why we should love about Social Media. Certainly, I feel very lucky doing what I like to do. Although, my mother can not brag about it in the hairdresser

Do you love Social Media? Why?  Should we embrace it? Or reject it? What’s your view? And yet, that’s part of the game. Let us know what works. Fair?

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