Surprise and Delight

Surprise and Delight

I love surprises: when my husband brings home a mocha for me, a handwritten letter in the mail from a friend, a friend stopping by unannounced. One of the best social media related surprises ever happened on the morning of my most recent birthday. My cell phone rang...
Get to Know Someone New

Get to Know Someone New

Involvement in social media is all about relationships. Social media is about relationships. The short answer to the question “Why social media?” is relationships. When you participate in social media, you create an opportunity for buidling and...
Share Something Off-Topic

Share Something Off-Topic

If you are new to using social media, you may wonder what kind of content to share when trying to connect with others online. Or, if you’ve been around social media channels for a while, you may feel like people expect you to share content about a particular...
Surprise and Delight

Make an Introduction

Making introductions is a great way to help others find new relationships. You can do it casually, through a tweet.       You can even introduce a bunch of friends to all your followers at once; that’s the basis of the follow Friday movement....
Get to Know Someone New

A Story about Deepening a Connection

Molly writes A Foreign Land. I’m not really sure how we found each other. I read through some of her tweets as I prepared to write this post and noticed that she retweeted me sometime in the middle of December…. so maybe that’s when. (Molly, do you...