Reading Time: < 1 min I’m one of those people that rarely removes any connections on social media. Sure, if someone is acting wildly inappropriate I’ll cut them loose, but I have hundreds of connections on various sites that I’ve not spoken with in years. I should work to solve that at some point, but that’s not what this is […]
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Generative AI is better for input than for output
Reading Time: < 1 min AI is all the rage these days, particularly “generative AI”, or AI that can create new content. This could be new text output, new images, or even new videos. The power is amazing, but I see two very different sides to it. Input I love the thought of how IA can help with input. I […]
The bad side of AI
Reading Time: 2 min We all knew it was coming, and the first taste of it is here — people using AI in social media to try to reach more people more quickly. I recently shared a post that featured Gary Vaynerchuk and his thoughts on how to build a business for the future. On LinkedIn, this is a […]
What did you have for breakfast?
Reading Time: < 1 min One of the common complaints about social media has been the huge influx of personal information that “nobody cares about”, but that’s not necessarily true. Those trite little posts that you see on social media can actually have a big impact on your connections to those around you. Mónica Guzmán, from her book “I Never […]
Open sharing helps more in the long run
Reading Time: 2 min I’ve shared many times that your content usually shouldn’t be vapor. There are times when a quick story can come and go, but most your content should be available for years. Related, I’m continuing to refine my use of RSS to make it more about people. With most folks that I meet, I try to […]
Hashtags are just words
Reading Time: 2 min You’ll find hashtags on almost every social media platform, and occasionally on some websites. While they can be very helpful in certain cases, they tend to be wildly overused. First, they almost never help with rankings. If you include the hashtag “#DigitalMarketing” in a post of yours, the only value that brings is if other […]
When your filter bubble works too well
Reading Time: 2 min Over the past decade or so, most people have been building a filter bubble around themselves — only seeing the content that they want to see, and hiding everything else. Sites like Facebook do it quietly and automatically, meaning you have to really fight if you want to keep a nuanced view of the world. […]
That might be a great sermon idea
Reading Time: 2 min After church a few weeks ago, I went up and spoke to our pastor for a few moments. Nothing major, just thanking him for a solid message and encouraging him a bit. He took part of what I said and replied with “that might be a good idea for a sermon”. Like any good pastor, […]
Seeking social status gives others power over you
Reading Time: < 1 min There are a lot of people with millions of followers on social media. Many call themselves “influencers” because they feel they have influence over their followers, but in most cases they really don’t. William Irvine’s excellent book “A Guide to the Good Life” says it perfectly: “If we seek social status, we give other people […]
Talk less like ChatGPT
Reading Time: < 1 min ChatGPT and other AI-writing tools are fantastic, but they still have a type of feel about them. While they mix in some filler words and sentences, it’s pretty easy to tell that they were AI-generated, because they mostly share lists of facts. Is that how you talk? Some people do. In a recent episode of […]