Social Media is NOT about the technology, but rather the relationships that are formed.
Last night, while I was trying to fall asleep at 3am, I had an epiphany. I am attending the Stamats Integrated Marketing: Technology, Collaboration, Results conference in St. Petersburg, Florida and I have met some amazing people in the higher education web environment.
This meeting was facilitated by attending the conference, but the relationship grew due to Social Media.
I posted a thread on the conferences Ning network about looking for something to do. Within in no time, I had people calling me and I had been introduced to over 12 great people. They started following me on Twitter and I started following them too. We hung out for a bit and I watched a video discussion on higher education web topics on USTREAM.tv.
I knew that Social Media wasn’t about the technology, but that thought wasn’t personalized until I met these people and saw the relationships they had built with others hundreds of miles away. For many at the conference this week, this discovery was made a long ago, but for me it’s a new discovery.
So the platform (i.e. Facebook, Twitter, Ning, etc.) doesn’t matter and neither does the technology (i.e. blogs, wikis, chats, etc.), it’s about the relationships that are formed.
I look forward to strengthening the friendships that we formed at this conference through the use of Social Media.
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