Don’t Let Social Media Take Away Your Voice

As we turn the page on 2009 and look ahead to 2010 do yourself a favor-Tweet up. Meet people. Get out and shake the hand of someone you’ve met or talked to online. Look them in the eye and ask them, to their face, “how are you?”

While many of us continue to immerse ourselves in social media, we become more connected in many ways, yet in other ways we are also becoming more disconnected. Words and sentiments that you may share with someone through Twitter, message boards or walls require less human connection than the spoken word in a one on one setting. Body language, facial expressions and unique colloquialisms often speak louder than words.

So in 2010, make it a point to use social media as a way to connect with others, you may be surprised how much you can learn when you can speak in more than 140 characters.

Ed Heil is the owner and president of StoryTeller Media & Communications an inbound marketing and public relations agency and video production company based in the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul. Ed blogs on topics related to inbound marketing, social media, media relations, news media, video production and crisis communications.

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