Through social media, we’ve brought back Mayberry – the town where everyone knows your name and personalities are as distinct as Aunt Bee’s recipe for fried chicken. Whatever social media application(s) you choose to compliment your pursuits, you can build networks reaching near and far with the same small town feel.

“The truth is rarely pure and never simple. Modern life would be very tedious if it were either, and modern literature a complete impossibility!” ~Oscar Wilde

So folks – really. Don’t take it personally if I don’t follow you on Twitter. Your time is as valuable as mine. Go through the people you follow – and ask yourself WHY you follow them. If there’s no more compelling a reason than purely to show the cute girl in the third row of math class that you’ve got the most crayons…maybe you’re on Twitter for the wrong reason.

We often find ourselves surrounded in both business and life by those who actively choose to be passive. Who allow life or their business to run THEM instead of the other way around.

In this economy, where EVERYONE seems to be looking for a job (or at least a better one), how do you know you’re getting “da schnizzle,” the top dog, the worker bees, the leaders and ultimately the FIT you seek for your organization or project?

Sure, resumes and references are useful and vital tools for opening conversations with potential candidates.

But where else can you look?

The answer?

Online.

It was those days of my youth where I could spend hours on the phone, talking about everything and nothing at all, that prepped me for my current geekish life as a social media addict.

When the hell did business get so bloody jaded that it forgot that the customers are the ones writing the checks and we shouldn’t be charged to cash them? In a world where positive feedback spreads like a slow burn and negative like wildfire, I think it’s time that service-based organizations re-examined their service model.

What’s the happs in social media this week? Lots of great reading inside.

A mashup of the weeks’ latest and greatest in the social mediasphere from RedheadWriting.com.

See, search engines are really no more than eavesdroppers on the web-based conversations of the world. They’re the tabloids of what’s hot and what’s not. They send their little ears (aka web crawlers or spiders) out into the sidewalk cafes of the internet and find out who’s talking about what sites.