Can you first-guess the first cyber-community with its own language and own culture?
Every day millions of e-mails are sent out and received around the world. This number is far more than the direct mails we are capable of sending.
My-Space alone has more than 186 million users! Think about Facebook, Pinterest and all other social media.
Technology has given us so many ways of communicating with people all around us. We now communicate globally. But are we truly connecting or just corresponding?
We have to understand that adding people into our lives who share our values are quite different than merely collecting a list of profiles. To nurture relationships we have to deepen them, not just maintaining them.
Advances in technology have given us more speed but less time. We now may be able to access more relationships, but we have less time to deepen them.
What is there to life other than relationships? If we understand people we can see that people are as qualitative as their relationships. what most of us know is that the quality of our lives is the quality of our relationships. And since life is relationships, relationships follow the rules of life—they either grow or die.
Your relationships are as strong or deep as you choose to make them.
If you spend quality time in your intimate relationships, if you connect with your families and your friends, those relationships will flourish.
If you nurture your relationships with your clients and really meet their needs at a higher level, you build long-lasting connections. Conversely, if you don’t grow your customers, you go out of business. If you don’t reach your family or friends, those relationships get stripped of the substance and texture they deserve.
Ken Blanchard once described life as a game of Monopoly—no matter how many properties we buy or how many houses we build, at the end of the game “it all goes back in the box.” All we have ultimately are the relationships that we nurtured, the lives that we impacted, and the ones that have touched us. All we have are the experiences that we have shared. When two people meet, a third world is created. And with today’s technology, that world can grow exponentially
Technology such as Twitter has the potential to give us more than just an opportunity to tell others what happened in our day. If we understand and appreciate what Twitter is capable of, we can use it to instantly share our lives with others, and we can use it to reach more people in a meaningful way. Imagine if you could share the magic moments in the days of your kids or family that otherwise you would have missed. Imagine if you had cost-efficient and fast marketing tools that met existing customers where they are and that also helped you acquire new customers. Imagine if you had the power to build a network of like-minded peers, a community of shared ideas and creativity.
Visit here regularly for tools, techniques, and benefits for growing your network of resources to create even more fulfilling connections. Learn the powerful uses of Twitter for brand expansion, building a community that will ultimately enrich you personally and professionally.
