Hello all you readers!
It is July 1, 2011. You may be asking yourself why in the world is Dan starting a blog? Well, your question is valid. If you're like me, you resisted the big blog craze of 2004. I'm sure there is a more technical or valid time frame, but for me just about everyone on my cross-country team had one going during this time. The blogs my teammates started ranged from Derek Reiff's insightful takes on life to Ryan Hostetler's plan to invade and conquer Illinois.
I guess I never really jumped on board because I did not believe I have any insightful takes on life or, if I did, no one would want to read what I had to say. Which leads me to today and why I am starting a blog. For the last year I have been facebook free (it is a nasty habit to kick but got my fix via checking my wife's facebook account), however, I did join the Twitter world last October. I deleted my facebook account because I was not using it in a productive manner. My facebook experience would go a little something like this; logon, read status updates from people I never talked to, get mad at the status updates of said people, look at pictures people posted, sign off. After wasting an hour or two I would think to myself I should have been doing something else with my time.
Over the last month or so I have been thinking about social media and how I use it in my daily life. My friend Kyle P. Lacy, social media guru, has written a few books about the topic. I must confess I have not read either but I plan to soon. He is all about the idea of branding yourself. During my runs the last few weeks I have been thinking about "my brand". Two questions arose; what is my brand? and what am I selling? Kyle, if you ever read this I am sorry if what I am saying has nothing to do with your book. Now back to why I am starting a blog and I apologize for all the tangents. I am starting this blog as a type of experiment. My experiment is can I use social media in a productive manner? and, will doing so improve my life?
Thank you for reading my first ever blog post. I apologize for a rambling post. Hopefully my writing will improve with each post. I just ended three sentences with the word post. Oops, make that four sentences.
My next step in my social media evolution is to create a faceook account so look me up and add me as a friend.
Yeah! Social networking has that "time-wasting" aspect to it. But ultimately, the internet is the greatest invention in history because it makes communication unlimitedly possible, and social networking is the current means by which that benefit is being delivered to people. Ultimately, what's the point of being here if not to find, touch, share with, and love each other? We do those things with communication, and technology today makes it easier than ever.
ReplyDeleteI'm looking forward to more posts. I hope you write about running!