How it all started!
“There’s a thing in my pocket…..” Remember that sentence? Well that started off me wanting an N95. When I first read about it, it was a real revelation and I realized this was the phone to get.
So when I had decided to get one, but first I needed to get some more information
and started to search the net, hungry for more information. Found loads of links and blogs, and started reading blogs about the N95. What did I found? Well a lot of information, software, utilities, accessories and……
Almost everyone of them had a widget called “Jaiku” on them. What is now this? So I looked into it, and realized this was something called microblog. So I started to search for other microblogs as I couldn’t get an account with Jaiku right away as it’s an invite only service. Found twitter and got my first account there.
I have to be honest, in the beginning I didn’t know what to do with it, but I could see that people was writing one-liners about what they were doing so I started doing the same. Not much happened for a couple of weeks, but suddenly someone starting to write comments about what I was doing. I had my first follower! I was alive in the microblog, it was a really nice feeling. A little later I had my invite to Jaiku, so I setup my account and started to search for my favorite blogger there and added myself as follower to them. At this time I had started my first blog and was in process of starting another one, specializing in Nokia and especially in the N95. And told people that I would never start a blog, and I did only read some occasionally before all this happened.
Starting off
Now I was ready to go! Well what I wanted out of all this has gradually grown and evolved through time. and I have to tell you it’s been an journey in witch I have grown as a person in so many ways, and I have both gained confidence and self esteem!
When I started to get responses on my own one-liners it was both exciting and an experience and I really wanted to learn more about Social Media and web 2.0. So where to go next?
Well I had a Facebook account, not much there at this time mainly a few relatives and two old schoolmates. So i started to look for other services. And at this time I had also decided to be as public as one can be online, and if you wonder I’m aware of the risks!
Got more and more connected and added more and more services to my Social media life, my new online life. Gosh it was so exciting to find out how much cool things one cold do. But for me the main objective has always been to make new friends, not to connect to as many services as possible!
And more
Finding new services to get connected on wasn’t so hard to find. I could see that a lot of my new friends were on Lastfm, Facebook, and other ones so I started to connect myself to them there too.
And with Sportstracker suddenly exercise started to be fun, never had that experience in my life. So not only have my social life started to grow, even my health is improving along the way.
Now, and where to next?
I have had three short seminars about Social media and how to use it in everyday life, Two at my former workplace and one for a group of people that approached me after one of my posts on my blog. And it has been great fun to do that, seems that the interest are endless, and the need for information about social media can’t be fulfilled fast enough.
(This was originally posted on my old blog http://sporring.se/wordpress/?p=451 that now is closed!)