by Christine Cavalier
on 31 January 2008
What fun! Jeff Pulver of Pulver.tv is hosting a bunch of early morning get-togethers for people in various cities. Today was Philly’s turn! There were some faces there I knew from on-line meetings, two or three people I had met in Real Life before, and a bunch of new people! People and companies are doing some exciting things out there, and it was energizing to hear about them. I had so many ideas for the novel on the way home, but I was driving on the highway! Hopefully they’ll come back. But this social media thing, being back near/in/by/around technology again has really fired up my creative spark. Although it may look like it from the outside, I really am not wasting time!
Thanks, Jeff! Great to meet you, Geo, and everyone in real life! Hopefully we get together again soon.
by Christine Cavalier
on 28 January 2008
Tracey, my real life friend, came along with me to a social media gathering last night. It was difficult to explain how social media can help her professionally and lend a richer experience to her patients. Twitter was especially hard to explain. Which makes me think, what is the use?
People asked that same question of the Internet / web, so perhaps I’ll just wait around until someone more eloquent than I comes up with a sound bite that defines the online world.
by Christine Cavalier
on 15 January 2008
What I’ve been up to lately:
Twitter, Seesmic, Skype, iChat, iJustinetv, Blogtv, JeffPulvertv, JonnyGoldsteintv. You get the idea.
I’ve actually been spending quite a good amount of time connecting people. In this social media village, one gets familiar with many different businesses and skill sets. I’ve been simply matching up needs and solutions. Hopefully some of these connections will work positively, but once it is out in the ether, it’s out of my hands.
Social media has been distracting me, as these connections cry out to be made and I’m being invited to alpha and beta test a bunch of new software/applications, but since my fiction centers around technology and how we relate to it, the time suck hasn’t been without its benefits. Still, writing must be done. Or, in my case, plotting. Writing is no problem. Words flow for me. Stringing them together in a coherent plot is like hitting a brick wall going 80mph. Ouch.
Sorry so absent. Please send plot meditations/thoughts/prayers to me. I need ’em! And social media, stop distracting me! I mean it this time!
