Let me be the first to correct my misspelling of nunchaku and point out the absurdity of the Napoleon Dynamite reference. Now, Nunchuck Skills is the title of a series of meetings I hold for a small rotating audience at work. Yes, I'm an oddball and Yes, there is at least one person in my department not completely enamored with my idea of braindump sessions on fringe topics that have some relevance. Since that person's not my boss, I'm okay with that. The idea is to widen the audience for future sessions, and reprise some of my topics for additional presentations if they come up in the context of daily business. Pretty cool, pretty useful. The sessions run the risk of being one-way, but they're small enough right now to spur shouting matches of epic proportion. It's awesome.
Anyway (Historian: please count the number of times I begin paragraphs with this word. Thanks.), the first of these was on Social Media, big buzz word that it is these days.
"How many people here blog?" <crickets>
"Twitter?" <crickets>
"Subscribe to RSS feeds?" <the crickets' parents usher them to bed>
So here we are, talking about the importance of social media, and I'm the only one with so much as a GoodReads account. This was going to be fun.
I used a few slides from my Flickr account (using PicLens, of course!), and my basic points were (a) if you plan to talk the talk, etc, etc, DO some social media and (b) more content is coming directly from your users to other users - if you're not involved, it's all soon to be beyond your control. A lot of gray areas there, but I was pleased with the session overall.
Some interesting counterpoint(s) on "but where do we start?"-type questions, but the general vibe was "Yes, we need to think about microbloggers & RSS consumption and not just company-hosted blogs, comments and personalization." So it ended a little flat. But there's promise, and at least a level of awareness.
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