Posts Tagged ‘Twitter’

To Be a Master

Pull up Wikipedia and search for Michelangelo. Michelangelo was a sculptor, engineer, painter, architect and poet. He even did a few nice sketches in his day, one of which was just put on display last year. Now Google the phrase, Da Vinci. You can easily find that good old Leo was, aside from a few scientific titles, a painter, sculptor, architect, engineer, inventor and writer. Word has it, he was even crafty enough to mix in a little media from time to time – in some of his more popular work. Unless you have a thing for early Renaissance music, you probably wouldn’t recognize Palestrina. He can be credited with making separate pieces of media play in tandem to create art. His work is often seen as the high point of polyphony during the Renaissance. To be totally honest, the only reason I know of Palestrina is thanks to high school choir. The point is masters were special. They didn’t have just one skill or make just one kind of art. They didn’t use just one type of media. No. The masters did it all. They looked at the media of the day, and they experimented and played and made art. Know what? Their art is still with us… Our Renaissance We are the new artists, you and I. Yes, our media has changed dramatically. Instead of paint brushes, we have PhotoShop. Stories told in the facial expressions of great statues are now captured in the frames of DSLR video and high-resolution photographs. Poets have given way to bloggers, and (it seems) all the world can be found in the bits and bytes of Twitter. The men and women are the players. We are the new artists, you and I. And the questions are simple: What art will you create today? What media you will choose as a host? What are you [...]

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Giving Out Your Number

Every morning I scan my reader, lists and Twitter looking for good content. I do this because I want to keep learning, and I want to share it with you. This morning while nursing my coffee, I was particularly entrenched in this article from Inc. Magazine detailing the the results of a study conducted by Saras Sarasvathy, a professor at the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business. The findings of the study on how entrepreneurs think is fascinating and worth your read. How Exciting I really did enjoy the article. I was even more delighted to see the writer’s Twitter handle located in the byline, right next to the typical link that takes you to the bio page for the writer. Most online publications (excluding blogs) stop with only a link to the bio, giving the reader no way to connect with the human mind behind the content. “How cool is this?!?” I thought as I clicked on the link to Leigh’s Twitter handle. The idea of having access to a conversation with the journalist who had firsthand knowledge of how the entrepreneur’s brain works was exciting to me. (Admitted, I’m on this human brain kick lately.) It was also nice to have the handle right in front of me so that I could include it on the link I tweeted out to my followers. Queue the Sad Trombone My excitement was quickly squashed after clicking the link to Leigh’s Twitter handle. As you can see below, she’s not all that active. Notice the… missing picture missing bio infrequent tweets (last update was nearly two months ago) limited following limited followers Bummer. My desire to reach out was gone. It was gone because I knew the likelihood of getting a response from Leigh was pretty much nonexistent. What happened? I closed the article and moved on. Giving Out Your [...]

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