Comments on: What Were Your First Steps

By: ed hardy

ed hardy — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 12:31:28 +0000

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Mon, 26 May 2008 15:57:09 +0000

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By: Leslie

Leslie — Wed, 07 May 2008 05:54:43 +0000

In the early 90s, I started using AIM and ICQ.

In late 90s, I was part of starting a design community called New Element. We primarily communicated through ICQ and IRC.

My use of today’s definition of social networks started in 2002 with Friendster. Then from Friendster started joining other sites such as, myspace, Blogger, flickr, last.fm, threadless, Pownce, facebook and virb. I’m more active with photography and music related sites.

I really like what virb is doing with their site, but unfortunately I don’t have as much time as I’d like to participate. Them seem to take the good music aspect of myspace and make the design soooo much better.

On the topic of music, I came across this site recently: http://www.muxtape.com It isn’t very social in the traditional sense, but I feel like it is social in the sense that you’re still sharing music you are into with complete strangers. Being a musician and a eclectic music lover, I think you can tell a lot about a person from their music tastes.

As for what I would like to see more of in the future…definitely more music centric sites. I also feel like the lines of content management and social networks are being blurred more and more.

By: Leslie

Leslie — Wed, 07 May 2008 05:54:00 +0000

In the early 90s, I started using AIM and ICQ.

In late 90s, I was part of starting a design community called New Element. We primarily communicated through ICQ and IRC.

As for what I would like to see more of in the future…definitely more music centric sites. I also feel like the lines of content management and social networks are being blurred more and more.

By: Baby steps… « I am an Enigma

Baby steps… « I am an Enigma — Tue, 06 May 2008 12:11:09 +0000

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By: BarbaraKB

BarbaraKB — Mon, 05 May 2008 20:14:46 +0000

Book reviews and a favorites list with Amazon.com and an account with classmates. com back in 1998 were my first ventures into social sites.

Been a rocky ride since. My blog is long gone. Why? I am not a writer and I will not just rehash all the other great blogs out there. Besides, I love the numbers & the analysis more. True, marketing geek, you could say.

Right now, I am enjoying the new feed reader options such as FriendFeed and Twitter. I believe these sites are teaching the ordinary person about RSS. That’s powerful to me.

Peace!

By: BarbaraKB

BarbaraKB — Mon, 05 May 2008 20:14:00 +0000

Book reviews and a favorites list with Amazon.com and an account with classmates. com back in 1998 were my first ventures into social sites.

Right now, I am enjoying the new feed reader options such as FriendFeed and Twitter. I believe these sites are teaching the ordinary person about RSS. That’s powerful to me.

Peace!

By: Lisha Sterling

Lisha Sterling — Mon, 05 May 2008 12:04:04 +0000

Let’s see… I was a big IRC addict in the early to mid 90′s…

Seriously, advice for getting into social media? My advice is not to try to be anything but yourself. Do what you like to do. Talk about what you are passionate about in any and all outlets for that passion and enjoy. Any given platform (facebook, twitter, tribe, livejournal, whatever…) may or may not be the right one for you at any given moment. Don’t freak out about whether you are in the “right” place. If you are getting what you want out of it, then it’s right. If not, then not. The good news is that you don’t have to have monogamous relationships with your social media platforms. Pick and choose the things that you want out of as many applications as you see fit. So your friends aren’t in every single one of those locations? So what?!

Just chillax and enjoy it.

By: Lisha Sterling

Lisha Sterling — Mon, 05 May 2008 12:04:00 +0000

Let’s see… I was a big IRC addict in the early to mid 90′s…

Just chillax and enjoy it.

By: Avi Kaplan

Avi Kaplan — Mon, 05 May 2008 06:17:06 +0000

I’d say my first steps were with AIM, and a group of friends who all got really into LiveJournal in middle school.
More recently I’ve set up a blog, gotten a bit involved on twitter, and decked out my feed reader with great brain candy.

My interest really has spike since reconnecting with Tamar Weinberg who I knew in high school. Also was inspired by Beth Kanter and Michelle Martin early on.

I feel like I’ve just started to graze the surface and I’m always finding new interesting conversations. My advice would be not to be afraid to reach out and get in touch with people, be generous, and always remember that time is precious and you don’t own anyone else’s!

I hope this month to get more involved in conversations, use twitter more regularly, and try to develop writing every day as a habit.