Social Media Adventure Phase I complete

Phew ...

day one of my vacation begins.

Over the past 12 days I have crammed in as much spare time to learn about social media as fast as possible. Learning by doing. Facebook. Ning. Twitter. Blogspot. Lastfm. For now, I think I have a fairly good "initial" understanding ..

phase I complete, so to speak, since I knew a little bit already from being on XING and linkedin.

But really I have not even scraped the surface here.

This is an exploding phenomenon. The amount of twitter.phernalia alone is stunning. There are three ways i discovered in 2 minutes that allow you to measure your value on twitter. Mine is a paltry 40 bucks ... oh well, not much compared to Barack Obama's value, who has stopped twittering after he won the election (I guess he wont be allowed to any longer)

Most amazing experiences in my phase I discovery, especially on twitter

. ease of use .... although there is no documentation, you don't need it because it seems to
follow the rule .. "if you don't get it, you probably don't need it"
. helpfulness .... the responsiveness of the crowd to your needs is simply amazing
. quality ... there are simply just some amazing minds out there, starting from Paolo Coelho
who actually answered my direct message (surprise), to a 14 year kid in singapore who
is savvy beyond belief .. go check it out

I will definitely continue this discovery in phase II, after my vacation.

I will probably not be able to abstain ... I have become a twitter-holic :=)

CHHO