Social Networking, Twitter, Aikido, & Poetry: Holding hands with all my interests

June 29, 9:54 PMSF Marketing and PR ExaminerSusan Harrow

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Twitter and Haiku: few words, big meaning

Integration. Intent. Practice. Wholeness.

My dear friend from South Africa, Dr. Danny Friedland, who stayed with us for a few days last week, said that the original meaning of the word "health" is derived from the word "wholeness". But when he trains physicians and pharmaceutical sales forces and asks those audiences the meaning of the word health, no one knows. We all hold paradigms for what we do and sometimes forget our original intent or the "why" that drives our actions. Each moment is an opportunity to remember.

This often happens in the rush of social networking. What are we doing this for, anyway? In the spirit of integration I'm thinking about how I can use Twitter as a way that will enrich my life and the lives of others.

Yes idle chatter and jokes can be amusing. I love jokes myself. And I want to be able to further my deeper intents as well. So I'm going to devote my tweets to the areas that can expand me in the ways that I want to grow. In this way the people who have the same interests and vitality as I do can follow me and me them.

I'm very inspired by poetry and also quotes. So my regular tweets will include both. I am studying for my first Aikido test, which is the Fifth Kyu, so I'm going to include inspiring things I learn in that process on Twitter.

Since people count on me to give them PR advice there will be my thoughts on how to do everything from manage a publicity campaign to how to create sound bites. Of course I couldn't not tweet about Oprah since she's the diva of daytime TV and so many people contact me to get on her show.

I'll also include Haiku, an interest of mine since high school. Haiku tells an evocative story, which is the essence of what a sound bite it. So much of Haiku is an expression of nature, the seasons, the unsung details of the ordinary, the beauty all around us and within us and how it all passes too suddenly.

And lastly, I'll be tweeting about my daily life in the garden, with my friends, stuff I find that brings delight, surprise or amusement, and my personal and professional challenges.

This final Twitter entry is a bit harder for me since I'm a private person. I find I resist sharing certain intimacies that are reserved for my close friends. I consider this having healthy boundaries -- something essential to learning for media appearances as well. I'll do my best to find a balance here.

On the other end of the spectrum I want to read tweets that take me into a world I don't know, or give me a lift, or bring me deeper into an subject or lead me to an unknown interest -- falconry, for example. When I read A Pigeon and a Boy by Meir Shalev, one of my favorite books, I knew that falconry called me.

I haven't yet had a chance to experience it, but perhaps one of you will tweet about it and let me know...the world is wide and hunger for knowledge and experience vast. I'm looking for Twitter to bring some of the big world into the small place that I have in it.

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