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Archive for the ‘Misc.’ Category
This just in … News no longer breaks, it Tweets
Wednesday, May 4th, 2011(via Brian Solis)
Following the news of Osama Bin Laden’s death, Twitter once again celebrated its CNN-moment. This isn’t its first however, which actually seems to be news to emerging media pundits. The new reality of a real-time world is that news no longer breaks, it Tweets. We are the architects of a new media alert system, TNN – the Twitter News Network. And, because of us, we have set a foundation for which news media can more effectively track, check, and report on breaking stories as they unfold.
We are connected, we are the new wire…
As I shared with Jon Swartz of USA TODAY earlier…
When Sohaib Athar (@ReallyVirtual on Twitter) inadvertently live tweeted the Osama Bin Laden raid, the Twitter News Network (TNN) proved once again that it is the live wire for everyday people to break news. When Keith Urbahn @keithurbahn published the first credible report that the U.S. killed Bin Laden, TNN was also the people’s news source. Is it the biggest event in social media? It is among them, but that’s not the point. What it does signify however is that the gap between events and reporting is where Twitter shines as a human seismograph. This is yet another example of the importance of social media and the role it plays in monitoring the pulse of world events.
Twitter isn’t journalism, but it is a perfect beast for committing acts of journalism. Long before the news media and as President Obama was learning about the details of the events in Pakistan, individuals following @ReallyVirtual, @mpoppel, and @keithurbahn witnessed first hand as the operation developed and the real news emerged.
There are countless stories that already unravel the Tweets to show how Twitter was well, just being Twitter…a conduit for us to share our experiences as we experience them. Instead, I would like to focus on you, me, and how the magic of shared experiences in social “me”dia come alive in what I refer to as the information divide…the space between an event and when media fact check and officially report it.
We are literally making the world a much smaller place. Tied to connectedness, Twitter is equally magnificent at merging reach and velocity. The ability to propel news as reported by everyday people around the world in minutes consistently is as wonderful as it is surprising. And if words are a gateway to one’s soul, in the digital realm, they are the portage to insight and analytics. Shortly after the hail of Tweets, Twitter published an interesting data report that demonstrates the breathtaking volume of our ability to share what moves us.
The Bin Laden news peaked at 11 pm EDT with 5,106 Tweets per second (TPS) following the all time TPS high set by NYE 2010 at 6,939 TPS. Most notably, According to Twitter, the news event held the highest sustained rate of Tweets to date, hitting 3,000 TPS between 10:45 and 2:20 am, climbing to 38,7 million tweets in just 3.5 hours.
Social media monitoring and analytics platform Sysomos published data that was equally revealing.
In less than 12 hours since the tweeting began we saw almost 40,000 blog post and news articles and an astounding 2.2 million tweets all talking about Osama Bin Laden. As well, while no surprise that people in the US were talking the most about this event a look at our geo-location map shows us that people all over the world were tweeting about the news.
Twitter and social media bestow you and me with a platform to become extraordinary – even if for but a moment. We now possess freedom of Tweet, which represents nothing less than the beginning of the end of the era of #commandandcontrol
We will not be silenced.
p.s. Congratulations Will & Kate. While we celebrate in this news, we also celebrate your marriage, your love, and the hope it gives everyone around the world that a market for “happily ever after” does indeed exist.
Tax Deductions In Time for April 18th Deadline
Tuesday, March 29th, 2011
Take Care of the Asset
Wednesday, March 9th, 2011Today is a great day to get back to the basics. Daniel Harkavy, CEO and founder of Building Champions, recently highlighted the connection between work performance and physical health in his blog, and I wanted to share it with you:
What’s up with you skipping breakfast today? Do you really want to inhale that microwaved can of processed mystery food at your desk for lunch? How many nights will your body allow you to deprive it of adequate sleep? Are you really going to put off your 30 minutes of cardio again today?
I know — I don’t understand how busy you are. Sure, you’re in peak shape and have exceptional genes, so you can fudge a little here and there. Even so, please keep reading.
Years ago, the Harvard Business Review published an article entitled “The Making of a Corporate Athlete.” In the article the authors shared the results of their research, which showed that executives who are fit and healthy outperform their peers. So there is some real, empirical data to support my plea.
Take care of the asset! Your body will either help or hinder your ability to lead and serve those around you.
In the past decade and a half, our coaches at Building Champions have worked with leaders to improve their thinking, decisions, and performance. We have helped many to protect their most important asset by making their own health a priority. The results are almost always sustainable.
When you adopt healthy disciplines with fitness and nutrition, you gain momentum and energy for your business disciplines as well.
You will experience real breakthroughs with improved mental acuity and follow-through on your more difficult high pay-off disciplines. You will gain self-confidence which leads to an improved mental outlook and work performance.
Care for your number one asset – yourself — and encourage those on your team to do the same.
Physical health lets you operate at your peak!
[Thank you to Daniel Harkavy for this great post.]
The Day We Truly Grow Up
Wednesday, February 23rd, 2011Today I’d like to highlight the importance of being responsible for how we view our circumstances with an excerpt from John C. Maxwell’s book Developing the Leader Within You:
WE ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR OUR ATTITUDES
“Our destinies in life will never be determined by our complaining spirits or high expectations. Life is full of surprises, and the adjustment of our attitudes is a lifelong project.
The pessimist complains about the wind.
The optimist expects it to change.
The leader adjusts the sails.
We choose what attitudes we have right now. And it’s a continuing choice. I am amazed at the large number of adults who fail to take responsibility for their attitudes. If they’re grumpy and someone asks why, they’ll say, “I got up on the wrong side of the bed.” When failure begins to plague their lives, they’ll say, “I was born on the wrong side of the tracks.” When life begins to flatten out and others in the family are still climbing, they’ll say, “Well, I was in the wrong birth order in my family.” When their marriages fail, they believe they married the wrong person. When someone else gets a promotion they wanted, it’s because they were in the wrong place at the wrong time.
Do you notice something? They are blaming everyone else for their problems.
The greatest day in your life and mine is when we take total responsibility for our attitudes. That’s the day we truly grow up.”
