Doing the right thing, socially of course

I was surprised this week when one of the former members of my Twitter community reached out to me and told me they were “unfollowing me”, primarily because they had the perception that “I was gaming the system”.  While I make no secret of my reasons for using social media, I believe, with complete conviction, that you must always add more to the ecosystem than you take in return. If you follow this advice you will enjoy your social media experiences, and those you engage with will as well.

I have a challenge for all of you. Let’s take a moment and truly follow the above advice.  For the next week reach out to your various social communities and find out who is unemployed.  Spread the word for these people, try to help them make connections.  I’m going to start by noting two members of my community who are unemployed:

• Jungchan Hsieh (@JungchanHsieh).  He is a developer in Texas and can be found on LinkedIn.
• Charles Burleigh (@CharlesBurleigh).  Think of data as Charles is all about Data Integration, ETL, Data Quality. He lives in Missouri and can be found on LinkedIn.

It’s time to decide if social media is all about you or if you’re willing to give back.  Which will it be?

John

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