Arron Lorenz

My review of the first chapter of Nathan Winters upcoming Ag book.

http://www.follownathan.org/

Hey for those of you reading my blog here I’ve been sharing some of my posts from QC Design Tech. I’m a big fan of the following because I’m trying to remind folks that Social Media is just another avenue for communication. What you communicate is up to you!

After having been engaged in various social media networks, and blogging platforms over the years time has shown me a few things. I have found that completely original ideas are hard to come by. That we are more simply trying to constantly improve on all facets of our lives, and this world. Social Media is a new growth on mass communication. Where the lines of “bull horn” marketing are blurring with dinner conversations.

How Social Media is used today

In 2009 with one in five Americans on Twitter, and 35% of Americans are more likely to tweet if they are already a member of another social network. It is easy to see that spreading the word across multiple SM channels is crucial. From 2008 to 2009 Social Media websites saw an additional 11.3 million members from the 35-49 age group.

The information and data that I have included in this post all highlight a trend that is heading up. Social Media is as ubiquitous as a cellphone, e-mail, radio, computers, and  television. Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, along with the hundreds of others are just different mediums and different channels for your business to capitalize on.

Rush Limbaugh is Social Media

In 1988 during the decline of AM radio Rush Limbaugh first nationally syndicated his radio show. He went national by doing something that no one else had done. Rush GAVE HIS PROGRAM AWAY. Usually radio stations paid a royalty to the talk show for being able to air the program. Rush gave his radio signal to any radio station that would play it. He then signed the advertising deals directly with advertisers. He completely cutout the middle man. By giving his program for free to these AM stations in their decline he managed to get his name, his brand, and his voice to thousands of stations.

The radio stations don’t pay Rush, the listeners aren’t paying a dime to Rush to hear the radio program.

Read More: http://www.qcdesigntech.com/2009/11/social-media-is-talk-radio/

The idea of the “Culture of Done” was first presented to me after a friend J. Colin Johnson of MobileTek suggested a book called The 4-Hour Work Week. To boil this whole thing down I’ll just simply say “I’m done, and now I’m moving on.” My application of this has been a tremendous asset in both my short time and long term lifestyle dreams.

Why do we spend so much time trying to do? How is that we manage to try so hard, and move no where. I’ve got a fun assignment for you dear reader. Next time someone tells you that they tried to call you ask them this: “Where did you go wrong? Did you fail to pick up the phone? Did you fingers slip off the buttons? Did you miss dial, and not dial back? Did someone comically run by and cut the cord with large pair of scissors? Are you lying to me now?”

Some people may say that I’m arguing semantics but I assure you we live in a culture of do-it-never. The easiest excuse in the book is “I’ve been trying to get a hold of you.” I’m a fairly easy person to contact. I don’t answer my phone that often, but I’m easy to reach. I use Phone Tag to transcribe my voicemail and e-mail them to me. I have an extensive set of Gmail filters to manage all e-mails, and even handle responding to some of them. I use AIM, Google Chat, and IRC. I have two GMail accounts in case I get the first one banned for something. I have a blog that uses the Disqus comment system. I am on social networking sites such as Facebook, Twitter, Digg, and LinkedIn. I txt message. I also have a post office box. So if someone couldn’t get a hold of me it’s because they called me when I was working, and they didn’t leave a clear message with a reason for response. No I don’t respond to message that are “Hey.. It’s John Smith.. Give me a call back sometime.” If I wanted to chat I’d go to therapy.

This is my point as made in so many words by the Jedi Master Yoda “Do, or do not. There is no ‘try.’”

Alex Hillman over at DangerouslyAwesome.com linked to this little diddy that just made me get something done.

From Bre Pettis’ Blog:

The Cult of Done Manifesto

1. There are three states of being. Not knowing, action and completion.
2. Accept that everything is a draft. It helps to get it done.
3. There is no editing stage.
4. Pretending you know what you’re doing is almost the same as knowing what you are doing, so just accept that you know what you’re doing even if you don’t and do it.
5. Banish procrastination. If you wait more than a week to get an idea done, abandon it.
6. The point of being done is not to finish but to get other things done.
7. Once you’re done you can throw it away.
8. Laugh at perfection. It’s boring and keeps you from being done.
9. People without dirty hands are wrong. Doing something makes you right.
10. Failure counts as done. So do mistakes.
11. Destruction is a variant of done.
12. If you have an idea and publish it on the Internet, that counts as a ghost of done.
13. Done is the engine of more.