Comments on: What has Social Media or the Internet Inspired you to do? http://www.magicwoodworks.com/2008/08/what-has-social-media-or-the-internet-inspired-you-to-do/ A resource for artists to learn and share creative marketing tecniques and anecdotes. Thu, 11 Mar 2010 03:40:10 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Connie Crosby http://www.magicwoodworks.com/2008/08/what-has-social-media-or-the-internet-inspired-you-to-do/#comment-228 Connie Crosby Sun, 10 Aug 2008 01:38:23 +0000 http://magicwoodworks.com/blog/?p=245#comment-228 Like you, I feel I have gained a lot through connecting with people online. Just a few: - let me actively participate in and initiate discussions when I was very shy - gradually helped me push past my shyness - my blog (which I have been writing for 4 1/2 years) easily advanced my career by about 5-10 years in the first year. I was seen to have expertise and asked to write and speak - speaking led to teaching - teaching and my other participation online led to work which allowed me to quit my day job and pursue a new career in consulting - I have made many friends world wide. My social life has never been better. If you look at it as a whole, the online world helped me find people with similar interests, and has allowed me to meet many of those people in person. Cheers, Conine Like you, I feel I have gained a lot through connecting with people online. Just a few:

- let me actively participate in and initiate discussions when I was very shy
- gradually helped me push past my shyness
- my blog (which I have been writing for 4 1/2 years) easily advanced my career by about 5-10 years in the first year. I was seen to have expertise and asked to write and speak
- speaking led to teaching
- teaching and my other participation online led to work which allowed me to quit my day job and pursue a new career in consulting
- I have made many friends world wide. My social life has never been better.

If you look at it as a whole, the online world helped me find people with similar interests, and has allowed me to meet many of those people in person.

Cheers,
Conine

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