Seth Godin talks a lot of sense about Tribes. People who disagree with the status quo and decide they want to change things. Godin persuades us to tell a story, connect to a tribe, lead a movement and make a change.
Examples of tribes range from Al Gore: an Inconvenient Truth to the iPhone hackers. All with the same purpose of people connecting with each other.
After listening to Seth Godin: Why tribes, not money or factories, will change the world I realised that throughout my life I’ve always challenged things quietly and never done anything about it. I think it’s about time I did something.
We can’t all be leaders, but we can join a tribe to which we feel connected. According to Godin, you don’t need to be born a leader to start a tribe but if you find yourself disagreeing with something, then there is now an opportunity for you to start a movement and it only takes 24hrs!
Five days ago I returned from a wonderful family holiday to Mexico, only to be given a wide berth by people here who are scared about catching swine flu. Fortunately, none of us are remotely showing any signs of it.
It’s a very unfortunate event I sense has people downgrading Mexico again and re-labelling it a “third world” country. While it is true there is inequality in Mexico, when it comes to combatting something like this new virus, everyone should be treated consistently. Mexico hasn’t got the contingencies nor stockpiled drugs like we have in Europe; those struck down in a remote village in Mexico find their chances of survival compromised.
But during my visit to Queretaro, I was very impressed with the state government’s provision for the elderly, and for fighting poverty. It’s rather a beacon state to be copied by others in the country. Now is the time for people to pull together and for the world to show solidarity with Mexico, rather than seek to isolate her.
I have just listened to the co-founder of Twitter on TED and I was fascinated to hear about how twitter has evolved from the original idea and how people have invented new ways of organising and getting their messages across.
The @ and # symbols are just two of the key devices integrated into Twitter at a later stage.
The @ symbol allows to you to refer to people by their twitter username, i.e @gicela. You can use this at any point in your tweet and it’s also public.
The # tag is used to refer to a group of people following the same topic, for example a fundrasing event #Twestival or a conference #SXSW. You can create your own #tag to point to people to the same topic of conversation.
In the last week or two, a new service called wefollow has created a new Twitter directory based on people assigning ‘tags’ to themselves, e.g. #gardening, #biking, etc.
I often hear business owners talk about the frustration of dealing with their web agency. More often than not, it’ll be about a small edit they want to make to their existing website, and how it can often be both costly and inflexible.
Now WordPress is a blogging platform which offers powerful CMS capabilities. You no longer need to ask your web agency to correct the spelling mistake you made! Nor do you need to ask them to upload the photo you emailed to them yesterday.
I have been using WordPress as both a blogging platform for small businesses, and for owners of small websites who need the CMS capabilities and the social elements that a blogging platform offers. Combining both can create a powerful web solution that in the past would have been an expensive business.
WordPress is open source software, which means that you can use the software for free and customise it to your needs. Small businesses who require only a handful of web pages do not need to employ a costly web agency.
It’s a good idea to browse through some of the blogs hosted in WordPress.com to give you an idea of the features that WordPress offers.
Thank you for stopping by. I'm a techie at heart and passionate about the social web. I help people embrace open source technologies and coach them to use online tools effectively.
