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Social Media Revolution
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This is the first blog for the relaunch of rexmiller.net. The site is still undergoing some construction. The next area of development is to add Podcasts and presentations. Make sure you pass this along to others. The rexmiller.net blog focuses on all things changing and future. My other blog focuses on the shifting world of commercial real estate, architecture, construction and sustainability.
My audience are primarily digital immigrants (born before 1992). The goal of many of these blogs is to help us keep up AND bridge the digital divide. We are the first generation in history where our kids understand operating rules of the current and emerging culture better than those in charge.
When it comes to social media most of us still don’t get it. I’m not sure I always get it. Here is a case in point. Last night I was driving with my 16 year old son. He wanted to contact table tennis peer from another school. He knew his first name but nothing else. I suggested he ask the table tennis coach for his email. That seems logical to me. I have over 3000 contacts in my contact manager with emails – that is what I would do.
“No dad, you don’t understand (understatement). He won’t read or even think of checking his email.”
I do know the alternatives; text or Facebook are two. However, my first instinct is email. That shows my paradigm and bias for a tool that looks basically like its original versions from the early 1970s.
The dominant mode of communication for those under 30 is texting.
We will be constantly confronted with the tension of keeping up. Some will simply say – why bother. Others will feel great angst. Here is a simple solution: find a digital native to provide you with a tour of the social media landscape. Find one or two of the tools you like or can tolerate and begin using them (through the help or your digital native mentor).
The goal is not just to use the technology but the grasp the mindset that can see its value. Using it will develop that new mindset.
Here is a video clip called The Social Media Revolution
One Response to “Social Media Revolution”
The Chronicle of Higher Ed had a huge article about how ineffective email was as a communication tool. Nice job!