Write in one or a few sentences your version of something important new that you learned last week that is relevant to the current week's topic.
Thinking back over the last intensive, one thing really stood out for me, and I think will resonate with the this weeks topic. Surprisingly (or maybe not), the thing that stood out to me the most, but is perhaps the most trivial to some, is my "brand color". As a background, I've been loosely working on a personal brand for the last year. Without any formal training or even the notion that other people work on a personal brand, I've been piecing together a loose resemblance to my personal brand. During this time, I needed to choose a color for a background for a template, which I chose green. Since I've modeled all my color schemes off of that color. Recently, I decided that orange better represented my brand (without really thinking about or understanding the connections between color and representation). When we discussed the topic of color and our brands, it was a real eye opening experience to understand the connection between colors and brands, and how I've unknowingly been struggling through my color scheme to define myself.That being said, now that proven relationships and meaning has been thrown behind the color choices I have to choose, I'm even less settled with orange, but will commit to a color in the next week to use throughout my social networking sites, blogs, and physical personal identifiers such as business cards.
List two or three websites from your delicious bookmarks relevant to the current week's topic.
For this weeks links, I would like to post two links regarding Google Reader, which is the program I use most often for news feed information.
www.suberapps.com/tips.../google-readers-send-to-feature-the-underdog-of-greader-tricks/ -
http://www.socialfish.org/2010/10/google-reader-advanced-tips.html
Pose a question from one of your readings that would lead to fruitful class discussion — a discussion you are prepared to lead, if called upon.
My question is how do people, or do people, differentiate between real friends and online social network friends? As one video put it, our online "friends" are no longer our friends in a traditional sense. Instead they are the people we share the world with, Rolodex'd into online system that keeps us constantly updated on their situations. The are peripheral to the people we care about most, but at the same time, are the people we may know the most about because of news feeds and constant updates. Do people find this disconcerting, exciting, or are indifferent to the change of structure our "friendships" have taken?