Telling Your Story Authentically with Modern Tools
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The amount of data in the world will increase 50-75x in the next decade. Will people be able to find you in the midst of this information explosion? Will traditional marketing techniques be effective in this new age, or is the Internet just a new way to advertise?
To find the answer to these questions, we must learn how to tell an authentic human story. The technological tools available to us today represent unprecedented opportunities to share our experiences through rich new decentralized forms of media.
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Because I recently changed my Facebook profile policy to a more open model of outreach, I am getting a lot more interaction with my personal Facebook posts than I have in the recent past. I am excited to be using Facebook in this way to meet more new people with whom I may share common ground.
In adopting this more liberal policy, I am meeting lots of folks of which I know little, and that’s what this is all about. “Hello, nice to meet you!”
Unfortunately, when mixing in these unknowns, I am finding a few people who, out of habit, or because of current cultural norms, think that it is ok to be insulting to either myself or to my friends whom are interacting with these posts.
It’s not.
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Leveraging Rewards and Managing Risks
It took 38 years for radio to reach 50 million listeners, and 14 years for television to reach 50 million viewers. But it only took four years for the Internet to gain 50 million users, and social-media sites such as Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram actually hit the 50 million-user mark in months, rather than years.
Through our rapidly developing technology, everything is accelerating, and in a very short time, the use of social media has come to dominate our lives, both in and out of the workplace. ‘Millennials’ — those born after 1980 — are known for their pervasive and all-encompassing social-media use, and will represent 75% of the workforce by 2025.
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Matteo Wyllyamz (aka @mouselink) nominated for a ‘Shorty Award’ for excellence in social media
This is exciting for me.
For a few years now, I have been working hard on developing a following on Twitter, and providing a valuable feed there of useful and entertaining posts.
Now I have a chance to win an award for it, as I am in the running for a Shorty Award for “Excellence in Social Media” in the category of #science. This is due in part to my bent towards posting technology and futurism news articles.
If I am in the top six when the voting closes on February 10th, I will be considered a finalist, and I’ll be invited to attend the ceremony in New York city in April. I will also be eligable to win the award in my category, which will be voted upon by the academy judges.
At the moment, I am in 4th place out of a field of about 150 nominees.
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Interview for Smells Like Human Spirit Podcast
01:25 Introduction of Matteo Wyllyamz aka @Mouselink.
02:16 What powers my interest in technology and science fiction?
04:15 What is technorealism?
06:25 Social media is not as new as we think it is. America Online, early/mid 90s?
07:55 Has the ubiquitous nature of eletronic communciatinos cheapened face-to-face human interactions?
09:10 Technology is an intensifier that empowers agendas.
11:50 Flash robs and flash mobs.
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![Matteo Wyllyamz (aka @mouselink) finishes as a 4th-place finalist in the category ‘science’ for a Shorty Award for Excellence in Social Media
Special Thanks to Everyone Who Supported me in the Shorty Awards!
I want to thank everyone who has generously lent their support to me during the last month of this competition. Some of these tweets can be read below (or here). I’m sorry I don’t have the space to include everyone.
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Because I’m on Twitter primarily to share information, I do feel that recognizing my posts through these nominations is a powerful tool that helps get important information out there.
And while I certainly don’t do Twitter for awards, I did see this opportunity as a good way to help get my brand out there, which increases opportunities for me in my work, and which benefits my family as a result. I’m not super comfortable working the cyberways as a publicity-whore, but there it is.
Because I finished in the top six out of a field of about 150 nominees, I am eligable to win the award in the science category, which will be voted upon by the academy judges. This recognition is due in part to my bent towards posting technology and futurism news articles.
It really kind of blows my mind to see the @Mouselink brand in a field of nominees that includes a world-famous astronaut living aboard the International Space Station; the Mars Curiosity Rover, which has nearly 1.3 million Twitter followers; and the popular science phenomenon, Neil deGrasse Tyson, arguably our generation’s Carl Sagan.
It is a great honor to be in the running with these science giants, but it was your belief in what I’m doing that helped put me there. I am not a world-famous celebrity. I’m just a guy with a laptop who has a penchant for posting the news I find interesting. In my opinion, this is what social media is all about: decentralization of information away from the traditional gate-keepers of thought.
Thank you again, and be well!](http://24.media.tumblr.com/c14b00ba4b0074dae48d19bcd6cbb6de/tumblr_mih7myynWz1qhtnvmo1_500.jpg)
