Public Speaking for your Internet Soul
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Garrison Keillor make a plaintive case on self publishing’s disruption to the publishing industry, reminiscing of the days where paper meant something and being “an author” was a rite of passage for a chosen few.
Self publishing is as easy as a text, a tweet, a Blurb, or an eBook on Scribd or Lulu.
…that is the future of publishing: 18 million
authors in America, each with an average
of 14 readers, eight of whom are blood relatives.
So how do writers, journalist, poets publish to survive? Will publishers themselves survive by aggregating and redistributing online content down new channels to expand the individual’s reach?
Keillor’s lament and the continued growth of self publishing underscores the need to continuously build our personal and professional networks as this socially mediated mode of communication, the internet, continues to provide greater and greater access and voice to millions who have something to say.
Neil Perkin gave a keynote with a slide deck that would rival Lawrence Lessig’s.
Perkins presents key data points for navigating the social web, which resonate success for anyone engaged in social media, social networks, or simply using their smartphone.
The bottom line? The road to success will be earned by those who create and share an endless stream of information, and whom participate to support within their communities.
Feed your community. Grow your influence.
Feed your community. Earn their trust.
Feed your community.
What are you sharing?
A lively discussion has lit up on LinkedIn on TED’s discussion group to answer that question.
The community responses are shown in the following tag cloud.
Reductionism. This seems to be all too appealing for some in their online communication.
First, it was the blog, a shortened form of the news winnowed down to a journaled blurb.Then it was the 140 character tweet which restricted the 160 characters of its antecedent, the cellular text message.
Haiku tweets then added a pleasant literary intentionality to this narrowed universe with their 5-7-5 syllabic 3 line poems. It is same line of reductionism that fuels the popularity of the Six words blogs, stories and subsequent contests. Which only makes sense that this TED Group would (finally) query asking for a single word.
What is the single most powerful positive word in the English language for you?
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