This is a guest post by David Murray, a marketing and digital communications strategist (and all around cool guy).
A few weeks ago I was having a conversation with Lisa Kuelian and Ani Gharibian from LA Productions, an event planning company, about taking the first steps into the social web.
Like many companies out there, they were very interested in learning more about social media and how it would relate to their current marketing practices, but weren’t 100% sure how to go about taking the first steps.
One of the best ways to help explain how social media works, is to relate it to our offline world. Forget for a moment that computers, cell phone, iPads ever existed. What did people do before these inventions of modern convention interrupted our space? We talked. We talked around the TV, barbershop, the water cooler, the candy bowl… candy bowl?? Hmmm..
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We live in a very connected world. Not only can you send messages around the world in a matter of milliseconds, you can automatically update exactly where you are to your social network. We share a lot of data and information about ourselves. Sharing helps build relationships, but how much sharing is too much?