Three Steps To Creating New Ideas – Joining The Conversation
You’re online in the sense of using email, you might have dabbled in putting your CV on LinkedIn and played with Facebook, but how to join the conversation online? How to connect into the matix?
This is The Influence of Landscape by Advanced Human Technology described by Gavin Heaton in his post on The Landscape of Influence. It’s a great alternative to the Visual Guide to Twitter
But how to find the time to connect and where do you start? I have been using three steps when thinking about using Social Media to create new ideas.
1. Setting up
Setting up your profile gives you a unique online identifier – a web presence that’s uniquely yours when people look you up to find what you’re about.
2. Joining the Conversation
Social networking sites often have a ‘bio’ section, and the links to a GoogleProfile, LinkedIn or Naymz is a good way to show people who you are if you don’t have a blog or website.
3. Creating new ideas from conversations
It is the same as it has always been in the history of human interaction, new ideas often come from conversations that are now also online and global. Good ideas are infectious and I hope this one from the Royal Botanic Gardens in Sydney catches on.
Oh, I love this sign. This is exactly what we talk about when we ask companies to be more “human”.
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Heidi Allen Reply:
May 25th, 2009 at 10:54 am
I completely agree — as you know I’m just reading the ‘ClueTrain Manifesto’ = “To speak with a human voice, companies must share the concerns of their communities. But first, they must belong to a community.” This book was published in 2000, and it’s still very relevant.
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I think the recruitment industry (internal) is definately ahead of the game on this, especially the accounting firms and how they approach recruitment now.
How is it all going Heidi? Much of an idea about to approach your end goal?
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Heidi Allen Reply:
May 26th, 2009 at 4:49 pm
Hi Mike – It’s going really well — and it seems every time I turn a corner I learn something new. I liked what you said about focusing on a niche area when we talked last week – that’s something I’m thinking about when I’m thinking about the ‘end goal’.
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Love the conceptual diagrams Heidi
P.S. Nudgeville is back up and running if you need a place to submit your stuff
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