While I was at the New York Women in Communications Student Conference on Saturday, I started thinking about how I use social media. The first thing I realized was that I don’t use it enough, the second is that I’m not using for the right things. This inspiration came from the advice that Jennifer Preston, Social Media Editor at the New York Times, gave the students. She urged us all to ask ourselves, “Am I bringing value?” with every message that we send out in social media.
So I’ve decided to “up the ante”. The challenge is to tweet something of value at least once a day and write a blog post every week for the next month. Then the following month will be two tweets a day and a two blog posts a week, so on and so forth. There really isn’t a specific endpoint or measure of success but more of a practice in bringing value to my image online. I’m really looking forward to see if challenging myself actually works or will I end up falling off the wagon??
