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Insights, advice, suggestion, etc, gleaned from learnings, experiences, falls, laughter, pain, melancholy, happiness, poignancy, and every other shade of emotion that it is possible for a human being to experience.
No promise to post everyday (there may, in fact, be a hiatus of many moons between posts) but I promise that when I do post, the words will be mine, and the insights will be mine, although in a world where learning is ever inter-related, one cannot really tell when others' ideas end and one's own begin.
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What The Internet (And Internet Marketing) Is All About...
Posted 06-20-2009 at 11:46 AM by kennethtang
Tags internet, internet marketing
IM is still but one part of the Internet experience, though hard to see because we are, after all, IMers and we're hanging out and discussing this in a marketing forum.
But the Internet, per se, was never about doing things either TO or FOR people. It was about, and will continue to be about, doing things WITH people.
After both you and I and everyone else here is long dead and gone, the Internet will still be here...perhaps in another more evolved form, but the major use of the Net would still be doing things WITH people.
Regardless of the thousands and millions made (and to be made) in marketing, doing things WITH people can only enrich our experience and make it more human. We are, after all, humans, and whether sharing stories by the firelight in a cave or sharing jokes on the Net, we still retain the primal need to connect at the level of our humanity.
And if we neglect to do that, whether by treating others as objects, "customers", etc., we lose a little part of that humanity in the very act, at the moment of that act. And that is when, at the end of the day, when the sun has set, and we are alone in the den, that is when we ask ourselves (perhaps forlornly) "Is that all there is?"
Sorry for the dramatics
And now, back to our regularly scheduled infomercial...
[From this thread]
But the Internet, per se, was never about doing things either TO or FOR people. It was about, and will continue to be about, doing things WITH people.
After both you and I and everyone else here is long dead and gone, the Internet will still be here...perhaps in another more evolved form, but the major use of the Net would still be doing things WITH people.
Regardless of the thousands and millions made (and to be made) in marketing, doing things WITH people can only enrich our experience and make it more human. We are, after all, humans, and whether sharing stories by the firelight in a cave or sharing jokes on the Net, we still retain the primal need to connect at the level of our humanity.
And if we neglect to do that, whether by treating others as objects, "customers", etc., we lose a little part of that humanity in the very act, at the moment of that act. And that is when, at the end of the day, when the sun has set, and we are alone in the den, that is when we ask ourselves (perhaps forlornly) "Is that all there is?"
Sorry for the dramatics
And now, back to our regularly scheduled infomercial...
[From this thread]
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