Mandala Life Media » Currents http://mandalalifemedia.com Social media consulting, training and application Fri, 03 Sep 2010 15:31:36 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Letting Go of the Old to Make Room for the New http://mandalalifemedia.com/2009/03/letting-go-of-the-old-to-make-room-for-the-new/ http://mandalalifemedia.com/2009/03/letting-go-of-the-old-to-make-room-for-the-new/#comments Tue, 17 Mar 2009 17:20:42 +0000 Mark http://mandalalifemedia.com/?p=340
How Does Digital Technology Affect You?
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Most of the people and small businesses I work with would be considered digital immigrants.  They did not grow up with technology like the younger generation of digital natives.  Digital natives do not see themselves separately from the tools of technology.  They live within the sphere of technology being natural to their daily routines.  Digital natives embrace the web and mold it to their creative desires.

Digital immigrants are people who didn’t grow up using a computer.  Many of these digital immigrants are challenged by the rate of technological change that the digital native generation is creating.  This rapid change is reshaping the world for all.

So if you’re a digital immigrant trying to keep up what can you do?

One of my friends from this older generation that I try to keep up to date shared these thoughts with me:

All of this IT stuff is like a cyberspace avalanche…..it has started and getting bigger and there is NO thing to stop it…fascinating to say the least….we must become cyberspace marathon runners to keep up….LOL!!! thank goodness for the feed you provide….so I can catch a glimpse of the reality that passes by…. :-)    – Kay Snow-Davis

Here is my response:

It is not so much about marathon running as it is gently floating downstream with awareness of what’s new and relevant to YOU… and letting go of the old to make room… :)

For the average digital immigrant is can seem like the world is passing you by.  My advice is to keep opening your mind ( and heart ) to new ways of doing and new perspectives.  People and society is creating this rapid change and its our choice how we accept it all.

  • Widen your circle of awareness.
  • Do not get stuck in a closed little box.
  • There is so much new opportunity
  • enjoy the change, it can be a gentle ride or an avalanche, either way its happening
  • get involved and steer your future

Are you a digital native or a digital immigrant?

How are you embracing change?

Please share your thoughts.

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Bringing People Together Through Dancing All Over the World

I really like this video and apparently A LOT of people also did in 2008.   With over 15 million views its nice to see a fun, inspirational video spread this far.  This just shows what a guy with a simple little video camera and an idea can do.

Do you have  an idea you’d like to share with the world?

Here’s some info. on the video from Matt:

14 months in the making, 42 countries, and a cast of thousands. Thanks to everyone who danced with me.

And if you would like to know how this all came about here’s a video of Matt talking about how he made the video.

Could you use any of these ideas to get the word out about your business?

How could you share your story in video and have it go viral?

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2008 was a year for big growth in social networking sites.  Below are some stats on the largest sites by membership.  There is certainly no shortage of communities to belong to on line.    The list is purely the biggest communities.  Not the ones that may be best for you.

This info via Podcasting News

ComScore has published its take on the top social networking sites for November, and it continues to be dominated by social media sites, like Blogger, MySpace, WordPress.com and Flickr:

Top Social Networking Sites

  1. Blogger (222 million)
  2. Facebook (200 million)
  3. MySpace (126 million)
  4. Wordpress (114 million)
  5. Windows Live Spaces (87 million)
  6. Yahoo Geocities (69 million)
  7. Flickr (64 million)
  8. hi5 (58 million)
  9. Orkut (46 million)
  10. Six Apart (46 million)
  11. Baidu Space (40 million)
  12. Friendster (31 million)
  13. 56.com (29 million)
  14. Webs.com (24 million)
  15. Bebo (24 million)
  16. Scribd (23 million)
  17. Lycos Tripod (23 million)
  18. Tagged (22 million)
  19. imeem (22 million)
  20. Netlog (21 million)

(ranked by unique worldwide visitors November, 2008; comScore)

Source:  via TechCrunch

The sites on this list that I use regularly are Wordpress.com, Facebook and Flickr.  I was a long time user of Typepad from Moveable Type until I switched over to Wordpress.  I’ve also played around on a few of the other sites in this list.

How many of these communities have you tried?

What’s your favorite place for social networking?

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