• The Beast is Hungry and Bored: What’s Happening After Social Media?

  
  So today, I woke up par­tic­u­larly refreshed and jazzed about a work­shop I want to give.

  I asked peo­ple what they wanted, and they said a series of hands on lessons that will teach them how to use new media tools more effec­tively, and teach those of them who don’t know how to use them, where to start, and how to fit it into 15 — 30 min­utes a day.

  Then I real­ized how absolutely bored I was with answer­ing the same ques­tions about blog­ging and social media that I was 5 years ago.

  Don’t get me wrong, it is fun apply­ing the answers to new niches.

  But I wanted to write some­thing today about new media, and today, well I just felt like every­thing has been said.

  I’m not alone in this, or at least in think­ing along these lines.

  Geoff Liv­ingston, author of Now is Gone, cre­ated a new hash tag on twit­ter, #future­for­ward, so we can all dis­cuss what’s hap­pen­ing after social media.

  Steve Rubel, who is now lifestream­ing, wrote a piece on how to cap­ture atten­tion in the era of the con­stant infor­ma­tion flow.

  And in read­ing com­ments on his blog, where you used to be able to find some of the most men­tally stim­u­lat­ing con­ver­sa­tions among my peers, I see a lot of .…

  Well, bitchassed-ness, to be frank. Credit to Puff Daddy for the phrase.

  (No, I am NOT call­ing him P. Diddy — you get ONE name change with me. It’s bad enough I ever called him Puffy.)

  Which makes me pon­der — is it time for me to start talk­ing about what’s on the hori­zon?

  Or will I be a part of the spammy fiasco that I feel partly respon­si­ble for when I started talk­ing about RSS,  and later, Face­book?

  Before we even get into that, though, it’s impor­tant to pause there. Because I only have ideas and the­o­ries, I don’t actu­ally KNOW. I seem to make good guess by ask­ing myself…

  What IS Next?

  Busi­ness Blog­ging got swal­lowed by the lever­ag­ing of Social media. It’s time for social media to start mor­ph­ing into some­thing greater. And yeah,  Steve has some good ideas in a later arti­cle and a mindmap about the future of blog­ging.

  Which refined my ques­tion — as far as Busi­ness Mar­ket­ing goes, what is the next step after blog­ging? Obvi­ously the rest of social media. The two go hand-in-hand. But what comes after that?

  Next, we’ll look at some of the usual sus­pects for blog­ging.

  

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  Published on July 8, 2009 · Filed under: website promotion; Tagged as: #future forward, geoff livingston, new media, now is gone, social media, steve rubel
  
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