So how did I earn the Social Media tart label? Well the following list has a lot to do with it, feel free to join, follow, like, add, but no poking! (What is it with that???)
Email addresses:
sandie_mccoy@yahoo.com.au
sandie.mccoy@deta.qld.gov.au
sandie.mccoy@gmail.com
Facebook:
I have created many groups in Facebook, family and school groups are closed and invite only, but others are open to join. I started a Food Fun and Friends group mainly for Cairns people, to let everyone know quickly and easily what we are up to and what is happening socially in our community, provide reviews and support for local events and restaurants, and encourage people to have fun and support our local events and activities... and my efforts to keep all of the restaurants open (or just not cook for myself)!
The second group is called FNQ eLearning (Far flung and Neighbourly Queenslanders) and it was initially and effort to keep those of us who met at a Francis Kneebone Cairns workshop in touch, as we were not all TAFE people. I had hoped we could get together and catch up again however that takes time, coordination and energy, when its really easy to post links, ideas and tune in or out as you wish too. As you can see if you join, its mostly my place to share links and ideas, but others have commented to me they enjoy the prompts... one day we will have a real coffee in a real coffee shop together... I hope! Again my efforts to keep the local eating establishments reign supreme!
I created a LinkedIn account awhile back for the purpose of professional networking etc, plus we decided it might be the best place to run our uni group for the Public Sector Management Program, Graduate Certificate in Public Sector Management (insert vomit here)... no really it is good, and my public servant heart sings if but to a slightly different tune than most! The goal was professional and secure networking across the many government departments represented in the group and a one stop shop for resources, but the take up has been minimal, we are still an email all group more than anything. I joined many groups when I first joined up to LinkedIn, however the subscription emails drove me bonkers and I just deleted before reading, neither did I go into the groups often... so after awhile it was more following and linking with significant others and then seeing what they were saying within the groups, that helped me narrow down to those worthwhile and relevant to me. No food connections here sorry... a little disappointed in myself really...
Yammer... Love it! You don't have to search for like minded people... they are right there working alongside us! It was one of the first places I joined / went to and yes I lurked for ages, learnt heaps and it was reinforced by one of the readings in the workshop I attended today with the comment "stealth learning" not realising what you are learning at work and outside of it by just reading and being exposed to others' learnings.... you don't have to take it on immediately but it might spark you to explore or someday later you wil go "Oh I remember something about that in Yammer!" And fantastic networking, opportunities to keep chatting and sharing. No food involved again... moving from disappointing to distressing... might go and delete cookies just to get a reference in there!
Twitter... I had gleefully avoided Twitter for aggggges... whilst openly admiring Q&A for changing its whole image and audience by being one of the first programs with a twitterfeed... made me watch the show more! Alas I succumbed when I was asked to take on the Social Media for Business training... @sandan71, best try and find out what I am going to be talking about... and I am a little hooked to be honest... not so much about religiously posting what I am doing every minute... but getting a little bit of info about a lot of people and departments... at first I took a professional slant to it, following TAFEs and Departments and eLearning professionals... then the Taipans slipped in there, a little bit of Ellen Degenerous as she posts funny You Tube clips... and I looooove Jon Pigeon @pigeonjon... he makes my day... in between Anna Bligh giving $15 million dollars to a school and someone tweeting the news about Apple's forthcoming developments I read something like the following:
"Laughing hysterically at a prune..."
and my day is complete... there is balance in the world... Time for a retweet... Until I remember I have linked my Twitter account to Facebook AND LinkedIn.
So what else... two Iphones, three laptops and digital tv later... the world is at my fingertips! I play Word Games with friends all over the country, and some in my office... solitaire, spider solitaire help me through the ad breaks on tv... Love Angry Birds especially when they release a new season just when my uni assignment is due, Cut the Rope was a recommendation from my 7 year old nephew, I am stuck at some level but the Om Nom sound is cute... the Queensland Department of Education tweeted their new Site Words app the other day, have to introduce that to my niece... And Food Spotting!!! An app to recommend food and restaurants through photo sharing... Its all about food!!!
I am one of this annoying people jumping to the head of the queue at the movies having used the Cinebuzz app to buy my movie tickets and flashing the barcode on the Iphone, how sustainable of me!! I use the Imdb app to find out more about the movies and the Flixster app to post my review.
But the key thing in this all is that I am not glued to a screen, except IN the movie! Yes the phone is never far away from me, but I am out and about all the time... Rarely at home and apart from work time on the laptop I rarely open my own... The phone does enough.
I just downloaded the Blogger app so I don't have to go upstairs to use my Mum's computer to blog tonight.
And yes... As I wrote on my butchers paper at the workshop... I love to talk!! So here's to more blogging as we go!
Cheers!
Sandie
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