What’s your social media story? If you could have the space to say exactly what social media meant to you personally, how would your story unfold?
Would it be about the fantastic job opportunity you got?
Would it be about the great connections you’ve met and how they changed your life?
Would it be about how a cause dear to your heart was suddenly launched into the stratosphere?
Would it be about friends you’ve made that have no real interest in social media, but simply use the tools to make new friends themselves?
Would it be that love story that wouldn’t have happened?
The reason I ask is simple. We all hear about the social media success stories, but they’re usually the same companies (JetBlue, Zappos, Dell) or the same practices (marketing, PR, customer service). And while they’re great examples, there’s much more to it than this.
There’s the human side and the people stories. The things that we can really relate to. So here’s a request/offer. I’d love you to share your social media story with us. Here’s how.
In the month of April, I want to feature ten personal social media stories. It could be any of the reasons featured in the introduction to this post – job, connections, cause, love, friends – or how your business succeeded. Or your blog growth. Or your skill sets. Anything.
Each story will be in the shape of a guest post. This can be normal text, or podcast, or video – the choice is yours. However you feel most comfortable. All it needs to be is either around 300-500 words for text, or 5-10 minutes for audio or video. If you’re interested, here’s what to do:
- Send a Word document, audio file or video file to my email address.
- Title the post, and if it’s text, highlight where you’d want any sub-headers.
- Reference any links you wish to.
- Include a picture of you and a 2-3 line bio with up to 2 links back to your blog, or social profile.
- Send it in by March 30.
That’s it. I’ll choose ten that I feel really show the people, personalities and cool success behind each social media story. If there are more than ten posts come in, I’ll do the same in May, then June, and on.
The cool thing? This isn’t just another “guest post opportunity”; this is about going deeper than that and showing the real social media stories – YOU.
What say you – in?
photo credit: Travel Aficionado
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Finding Love in 140 Characters or Less … « Kansas City’s Social Media Agency Blog Evans Media Group http://bit.ly/cAxt4K
Twitter: markwschaefer
Wonderful project. I’m in. Only question — which story to choose?? : )
Mark W Schaefer´s most recent blog post …We’ve hit a new low: The shittiest social media marketing plan ever
Will you stop it with your great blog post titles? You know I just had to click through to that!
Well my story would be that I met the love of my life, a love story that would never happened (he was from Kazakhstan and I am from London).
That’s a great story, Ursule – would love to hear more if you wanted to email me?
Twitter: southplatte
Danny –
It’s posts and ideas like that make you never cease to amaze me in what you do for your online communities, and the general at-large online community as a whole.
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Hey there buddy, cheers muchly.
Hope you, Ralene and the kids are doing well – been too long, fella.
Great idea, Danny! What’s the deadline to submit?
@Worob
PR at Sunrise blog – worob.com
Good point! Just updated the post to show March 30 – cheers, bud.
I’m in…will be putting together a video for you my friend. Great idea!
It’s so hard to think of a particular story. Simply the way Social Media has and continues to break down cultural barriers and create groups/tribes from all walks of life is just incredible.
Feel free to check my blog out and you are welcome to leave a comment – http://jonbuckleypr.wordpress.com/
Cheers,
Jon
Hi Danny,
Love the project. Many stories, among others, meeting incredible people,really loving my work, and pushing my own limits.
how is that?
KC
Hiya Danny,
Interesting – I stumbled across this while searching for social media success stories. Just a little anecdote from me.
A few years a ago I was watching the news and heard about the Farepak collapse (it was a UK based Christmas hamper company). It meant that lots of people who had been using the company to save up for Christmas presents etc would not get the vouchers/hampers etc that they had been saving for. My mum used them too.
The worse thing about it was that the directors had done the usual and rinsed the company before liquidating it. I thought “That’s not fair – someone should do something”. Rather than wait and see who stepped up. I did. I registered http://www.unfairpak.co.uk – set up a forum and started posting and hunting around for pockets of people already discussing it elsewhere to bring them on-board.
Early members were asked to take on specific roles, and before I knew it – my little action, along with the little actions of customers and agents, had turned into a national one.
Cut a long story short – we ended up getting the issue discussed in parliament and got extensive media coverage and overwhelming support.
That’s my story.
I now work in social media/online community.
I hope you are well on your way to health again, dear Danny. We continue to keep sending you healing vibes from Spain.
I just sent in our social media story, just under the wire because I’m a one handed slow poke these days due to a bike wreck on the Danube last August that left me with a paralyzed dominant arm and hand. Nerves heal very slowly, but it has not stopped our open ended world tour or fun with social media!
We are as far from digital natives and geeks as one can get, yet the impact of social media on our lives, in endless ways, has simply been astounding!
Thanks for this opportunity and I look forward to reading them all and soon hearing about your total recovery!
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Love this project.Good point!
Cheers!
Love via internet ) this is more real today.. More people meeting in the dating sites, sometimes they are have sex, more rarely they love each other..
I am meeting my passion via interent too