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Suzanna Stinnett
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My brain on the BlogCatalog playground
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FOCUS (c) 2008 Stinnett
It's time to start playing with social media. I emphasize "play," because playfulness is what will keep people coming back. This stuff can be maddening, and if you're taking it too seriously, well, I'm afraid we'll lose you. You'll go climb trees or skydive or something.
Following a link to BlogCatalog from a notice in my email, I found the thread Tony Berkman started, related to my blog about bloggers and their brains.
I had fun reading other people’s takes on that concept. Staying in the conversation, I tossed in a comment about another blog I wrote on bloggers and their personality types.
Then I started exploring, looking for conversations that relate to my usual Monday posts here, “Jack’s Times.” (By the way, Jack and mom are visiting right now, he’s seven weeks old, and has us all love-goofy and mesmerized.)
I need look no further than the comments right there in the thread Tony started. David P. Brown had gifted us with a Rudyard Kipling poem, “If.” The poem is basically a letter from a father to his son. Sweet. The serendipitous nature of Internet conversations keeps my brain rolling with delight.
That makes me ponder what else I can find on BlogCatalog’s playground related to kids, so I type “parenting” into the search field on the site, and I discover the mother jungle blog. There in the short description of the blog I see references to Costa Rica and crème brulee. The jungle thing is verging on a theme now, and anything to do with custard-like dessert gets my attention.
The mother-jungle-blog is delightful. (There is also a dot-com motherjungle, but my laptop went wacky when I tried to switch over to it. Probably the lame connection here at the library right now, but just so you know.)
Later, some time when I’m in my politics brain, I’ll prowl around BlogCatalog’s new political channel. For now, I’m awfully happy with the Kipling-jungle-crème-brulee tags lighting up my neural net.
I’m very new at this. But new kids can run around on the playground too, so come join me, even if you have no idea how it works. You can find me on BlogCatalog here, as suzannabrain, and you can visit me on Twitter here, as brainmaker. Just play around, take a look, if it’s too overwhelming you can come back another time. That’s how we learn this stuff. You know, it’s like developing a taste for something. Don’t overdo it, let your brain reach for it naturally. It’s really just a conversation.
Suzanna
p.s. Yes, I did post earlier about BlogCatalog’s new political channel.
p.p.s. I just posted on Twitter about my articles here at Examiner, and I almost signed up to be able to do Twitter on my cell phone – and changed my mind, as my imagination painted a frightening image of a huge black hole sucking all the data out of my head. So see? This is a Boomer engaging social media.
Topics: online communication , social media , boomers , newborn , parenting , social networking , BlogCatalog , Twitter
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