The power of social media

My trip to California next week is becoming an opportunity to fully enjoy the power of social media.

One of my main activities these days is scheduling meetings. This activity is much easier than what I expected since Facebook and Linkedin are really helping me.

What I’d like to point out is that I’m succeeding in scheduling meetings very easily even with people I barely know or never met in person before. We know each other through references (very important!) or we just exchanged some emails in the past or they are just readers of my blog since because our common interests, but now it’s as if we were old friends that have the opportunity to meet again after many years. Amazing.

That’s why I like social networks. Now those are part of my daily activities and surely increase the opportunity to make business, partnerships and to know people now that can become important in the future.

I completely agree with the following thoughts by Jeff Pulver:

Social media has helped me better appreciate “real-enough time” communications. Something in between real-time and non real-time. Status Messages on Facebook represent a good example of “real-enough time” communication. Readers of my blog who are also experiencing Facebook and finding themselves embedded in the lives of the people who are part of their social network know what I’m talking about. And for those of you about to experience this, being embedded in a social communications platform like Facebook provides an opportunity to experience the feeling of being connected with the lives of your “friends.”

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