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Picking My Brain
A former manager offered to buy me lunch the other day, wanting to pick my brain about social media: blogging and Twitter and Facebook and LinkedIn and whatnot.
So over pastrami sandwiches, I waxed poetic about social media and transparency and encouraging conversation and forming relationships with people first and not pushing a sales message and being authentic online, offering solutions instead of hiding information. I was eloquent, I was thorough. I used metaphors and grand hand gestures.
And at the end, wiping the crumbs from my hands, I sat back and watched her digest the plethora of wisdom that I had offered.
“So,” she says. “We should just treat people online the same way we treat them in real life?”
“Um, yeah.”
I think I just got condensed into a fortune cookie.
