Amplified Leicester event

You really do meet potential clients in the oddest of places sometimes! I attended the Amplified Individuals and Business Resilience seminar on Thursday 18th June at DMU in the interests of finding out more about the uses of Social Media in helping build solid connections to allow my business (and my connections with people) to flourish in difficult financial times.

I was also hoping to find out a bit more about what's after Twitter too! this wasn't so obvious but I met several other small business owners, heard their opinions - both in favour of and vehemently 'not getting it' - on social media. It made me realise that you can be too evangelical about these things but you can also offer VA services to people at these events because you will save them money as they won't have to do it themselves. My time is no less valuable but they do not feel like they are then wasting their own.

The other most interesting thing I took away from this event is that we are still rather immature about how we use such media. It is mostly about being horrible about people, complaining about things and not used (yet) as a force for change. You can see the beginnings of this in the uses of twitter in particular in the Iranian elections, that it has the potential to galvanise people into taking action in the real world as well as the cyber one. It could be a way to get policies changed, to make people listen to or sensible suggestions as alternative ways to do things. And not just complain about them. But we WILL get there, it will just take us a little time