I’ve had a pretty severe case of writer’s block for this blog. I’ve had some dandy ideas but didn’t quite flesh them out. In the last couple of months, my eyes have been opened to the power of Social Media, particularly Twitter. At first I thought it was a just a copy of the “What am I Doing” line of Facebook. I read posts from people I knew talking about minutia in their lives that I really didn’t care about. Even worse, I read about minutia from people I didn’t know, but just happened to accept as a friend on Facebook for one reason or another.
Over time, I’ve come to appreciate the sometimes clever & witty mini-blogs (“tweets”) as an incredible extension of leverage. I’ve gotten to “know” several people just by reading their posts. These people are from all over the world and from right in my city. Some are entrepreneurs, authors, and even lawyers. They extend out in some of my core areas of interest: Judaism, Creativity, Vegetarian/Veganism, etc.
It’s amazing how bits of information here and there have aggregated to expand my knowledge-base and more importantly my own personal network. Now I am interconnected with people that are becoming extensions of my own mind.
The world has truly shrunk, and I have the ability to easily add my voice to the World’s conversation from my own living room 140 Characters at time.
That is true leverage.
Louis (Lazar) Green
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