Soapbox Mojo

All I need to know about Social Media I learned in kindergarten

• Share everything – Share your twitter updates, your bookmarks, your netvibes, your flickr, share, share, and share more.
• Play fair – Follow anyone who follows you, return the retweet, and comment honestly on other peoples work.
• Don’t hit people – Disagree with the idea not the person*.  Comments should be civil not incendiary.
• Put things back where you found them – Attribute your sources.
• Clean up your own mess - If you make a mistake in a post or comment, fix it.  Update the post, annotate the post as updated, and give a brief reason.
• Don’t take things that aren’t yours – Use and honor the Creative Commons license.
• Say you’re sorry when you hurt somebody – Need I say more.
• When you go out into the world, Watch out for traffic – Stop, Look, Listen, and then walk don’t run.  Good guidance for anyone entering social media.
• Hold hands and stick together – It’s the community, stupid.
• Be aware of wonder – See different, think different, be different.*

*This post contains some phrases from Chris Heuer’s presentation - Making the Case: Selling Social Media Into and Within the Enterprise