You know what it’s like when an idea strikes you. You open a document, start pouring out the salient points, copy and paste links to any articles that inspired you or that you would like to reference.
Recently though, that’s all I’ve been capable of. I write so much and then realise I can’t finish the thought. I can’t make it entertaining to read.
Rather than sit and stare at a lot of unfinished, withering thoughts, I am going to give them to you to finish for me. If you have written or read something – leave me a link.
Here’s what I wish I could write about:
- A Masters Degree In Social Media – Are We Really Ready For Experts? I am referring, of course to the MA being offered by Bristol City University. I also wanted to draw in thoughts from this GREAT article on Mamapundit. This really appealed to me, as my work straddles talent sourcing and social media marketing. I can’t help but think that at this early stage of Social Media’s development, we are better off (financially and educationally) diving in and getting our hands dirty. Terry Duffelen has a point though when he says that the course will create a time line for Social Media’s development.
- Does Twitter Make Mountains Out Of Mole Hills? I first started thinking about this when Gmail went down back in February. Twitter went mad, at one point there wasn’t one tweet in my stream that wasn’t talking about Gmail. I wonder if we would have worried about this before we were on twitter. I’d have simply shrugged my shoulders and tried again in an hour. By which time Google would have sorted out the problem.
- Email Signatures – A Necessary Evil Or A Window to the Soul? I saw a couple of interesting articles on email signatures and wanted to talk about them. I could never really mesh it together into an article though. I love this from Sabrina Dent, she tells it like it is and makes some points worth thinking about when you look at your own email signature. Fistful Of Talent is a HR and recruiting blog that I stop by on a regular basis. So with this already on my mind, this piece on giving employees freedom to express themselves through email signatures, struck a chord.
- Mentions Are OK For You And Me, But What About The Popular People? Twitter changed @replies to mentions on 30th March. This means that you can now see every tweet that references you, rather than just the ones starting with your user name. I thought this was good, and tweeted as such. I was quickly informed by @BenjaminEllis that there was another way to look at it. How does one now prioritise replies over mentions now? Not only that, but how do really popular tweeple find the replies amidst all the noise of retweets and general chatter. @wilw summed it up rather well with this tweet. Of course, if you go along to the Advanced Search page, you can just look for tweets sent to your user name, so it’s not that big a deal.
- If I Search For Something And Google Hasn’t Indexed It, Does It Mean It’s Not There? A silly post title in reference to the quantum aspect of this article on search engines from the New Scientist. As someone that needs a fair idea how search engines work to do my day job, it’s worrying when the results start to get “intuitive”.
Leave me your thoughts, so I don’t have to dwell on these any longer.
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I seem to suffer from the same problem as you. I have a list of draft articles as long as your arm on my Blog; none of them are ready to publish. I once tried vLogging as a way to get my thoughts out quicker until I realised that I have the perfect face for radio, but not TV.
I struggle to make anything I do ‘entertaining’ and my writing is my weakest area; although I’m trying to get better at it. The titles you’ve listed seem quite interesting, particularly the ones about Twitter making everything into a mountain, and the fantastically huge question about items that are not yet indexed ‘not existing’. If you do ever get round to publishing them I’d definitely read them!
James