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I’m sitting in my office, Sunday afternoon. Listening to Brian Clark (@copyblogger on Twitter) in conversation with Lee Odden.
[These guys are American. I've met them - via the internet.]
I’m hooked, can’t turn the interview off – even though I have a list of stuff I need to do before going on holidays. They have me glued to my seat on the topic of how to do PR – how to do on-line PR. There is so much I’d like to learn because I could be better. These two are heavy hitters in USA – a place where internet experience is deep. I’d like to introduce them to Ireland.
Distracting thoughts…
But I’m not really concentrating fully on them. At the same time, I have a conversation going on in my head. I’m thinking how lucky I am to have contacts. People who’ve inspired me. Others who’ve got different experience from me. People who help me stay open-minded.
I found Chris Brogan by accident. Someone mentioned his name and I got curious. I did a bit of digging, discovered Chris Brogan was really well known & successful. No one I knew face-to-face had ever mentioned him to me. But he turns out to be really generous and helpful to others. So I picked up a star.
It was @chrisbrogan who introduced me to what I’m hearing now. Third Tribe is playing. I’m listening an audio podcast of Brian Clark & Lee Odden giving instructions on what to do – if you want to get your message out to journalists. This is teaching me how to get noticed by traditional media – how to communicate my clients’ messages.
Where would I be if I had to do my learning in isolation?
More inspiration:
Another collection of inspiration is Twitter. A flood of tweets threaten to overwhelm me. There is so much good stuff being shared. How can anyone cope with it?
Here’s my trick. I put all the stuff I think looks good – too good to be taken in quickly – too complex to be absorbed now – I put those tweets into a folder – my favourites. I now have 480 favourite tweets.
My sharing plan:
I’m now going to start sharing my favourite favourites. I’m going to put up blogposts which are lists of links I value. I’m going to provide that service – here. Soon you’ll find a little fund of great stuff here – you may ever find exactly what you’re looking for.
But better that any links you might get from me – you might contact people directly and discover there are many Chris Brogans out there – meaning there are others who are also fabulous at sharing their world with you.
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This is an experiment – one of many on my road to iPad competence.
I’m in Spain, western Galicia. This is another attempt to wrote a blog post. My last effort failed. I don’t understand why it failed – only that I tried to write that blogpost on my personal blog which is hosted by blogs.ie. This blog is hosted by my web designer (somewhere).
In addition to wanting to be able to publish while on the move with iPad, I want to experience what it’s like to type on screen.
I’m used to touch-screen typing on iPhone. Tweeting is easy – but I wonder what it would be like to write 500 words?
Hi,
Its great to know that still people believe in helping others. I know that their are peoples out there who inspires others(many inspire me too), but having a word with them is really great.