I started using Twitter in April of 2008. Fairly new to this phenomena, I set up an account after catching wind of it from a close friend of mine. I spent the first few hours trying to figure out how this social network would catch on. By the end of the week, I was hooked. Since then, I’ve met hundreds of people, built new relationships and contacts, and have seen Twitter grow from 400,000 to over 7,000,000 in just a year. Now, everybody’s on Twitter. You’d be surprised to find your parents on it. lol.
However, some of us are a little more addicted to Twitter than others. Sad to say, Twitter has become a part of our lifestyle. With an average of 27,000,000 tweets a day flying across the web and mobile devices, it wouldn’t be too far-fetched to see cases of people being diagnosed with an addiction to Twitter. Can you imagine an MTV episode of “True Life: I’m a Twitterholic”?
Here are 10 signs that you may be a Twitterholic: [...more]
Twitter is easily becoming one of the fastest growing social networks of all time. With that said, more and more people are using Twitter to connect with friends, find jobs, build networks, market products, build businesses and brands, or just to share what’s happening in their world. However, what I’m discovering is that many people have succumb to the old Myspace-ways of using fake usernames as their Twitter names. Though this may seem really insignificant, and almost not even worth bringing up, I want to push back to and say that this may be more important than you think. From my observation and personal experience of being an avid Twitter user, I’ve compiled…
“What if 300,000 people did the same act of kindness a day” -DoGoodMovement
What if you and me and a whole bunch of other people all over the world could join together every 24 hours to inject GOODNESS back into this world? What if we could join forces through technology and the web, and collectively make a difference? Whether big or small; complex or simple; public or private?
I’ve been doing some research of different groups of out-of-the-box people who have rallied around a cause or idea. Many of these groups have established businesses, organizations, and even churches that have made major impact in our culture and world over the last decade. I want to highlight one in particular…
“To Write Love On Her Arms”
I heard about this group of amazing young adults about 2 years ago. Their story and vision is beyond extraordinary! I didn’t realize that the name of their group is also their cause, which is, “To Write Love On Her Arms” or “To present hope and find help for people struggling with depression, addiction, self-injury and suicide.” And in some cases, it is to literally write love on the arms of those who have suffered from the issue of cutting. Cutting has become a common response to young adult and teen depression. And in some cases, it leads to suicide.
I recently finished reading a book by Seth Godin called Tribes. Towards the end, he says something that literally challenged me as a young leader. He said, [...more]
