Egypt, Gladwell And Social Media
The not-so Jasmine Revolution
It’s taken me a while to try to get up to speed with what’s going on in Egypt, because I’ve been mostly offline the last few days.
It’s frightening yet fascinating at the same time.
Interestingly, while the news is all over it, I found very few blog posts that I thought worth sharing – else that’s what yesterday’s weekly roundup would have focused on.
I did find the following:
1. An old friend of mine (and now a fast-rising filmmaker), Parvez Sharma, has been relentlessly live-tweeting the events, as well as conducting interviews with folks in Egypt. Some of his pieces have been featured on the Huffington Post, and he featured prominently in a CNN article a few days ago.
(I found this out through Facebook, where I saw his stream full of Egypt and #Jan25 related tweets. Didn’t even know he was on Twitter before then.)
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Guest post by Alex Talbott
Social media isn’t everything
I’m reminded of this fact when people call me up to talk about how they can (best) use Twitter.
The common denominator between Twitterers and non-Twitterers is usually the knowledge that Twitter exists and that tweets are limited to 140 characters.
At the mention of DMs, RTs and hashtags the phone line goes quiet. There is a lot of educating to be done.
Why do I start on a seemingly negative point? Let’s sit back for a minute or two, look around us, and consider who we’re working with
and how we must act as educators in the subject of social media.
Pumped
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