Hmm, looking back to last Friday’s post, I know I should be posting 3 times each week. But better to post just the once than not at all. Still nothing revolutionary to say this evening, but I hope a few quick notes about what I’ve been up to can show that things are moving along slowly:
- Monday - I went to a debate about Heathrow’s third runway and the future of air travel marketing, hosted by CIMTIG. Lot’s to write up about this I promise, but not sure when I will get round to it. I’ll have to say that some of my reservations about Heathrow’s 3rd runway have been mitigated, but I’m not yet fully swayed.
- Tuesday & Wednesday - I’ve made further progress on the first draft of the “World Tube Map” - talking about it to a couple of people on Monday night also got an excellent response. I have something ready to print off, and I’ll probably do an upload early next week.
- Thursday - not really up to much, apart from watching Question Time in the evening - two excellent contributions from the non-politicians David Starkey and Dambisa Moyo.
- Today - pretty quiet too, but I am doing a bit of a twitter catch up. I have a lot to learn before I get the social networking balance right, but this should all come together by the time I have the World Tube Map ready to publish, and Flightmapping’s long awaited new site launch is finally underway.
So can I offer one decent tip for the week? Well, one thing about getting more active on twitter is that there are hundreds of people out there to learn from who will be much better than you. That’s not to say that newbies can’t carve their niche - of course, there is plenty of space for everyone, but to quote Emmerson, ‘Everyone is superior to me in that I can learn from them’. Tonight, I’ve read a couple of posts by Bob Wheeler, and his comments on why blogs are the most important tool in social media are pertinent. To quote his own blog:
In fact, if you listen you’ll hear just about every social media guru say, “If you don’t have a blog you don’t exist online”.
Of course, there’s no point in having a blog if it isn’t kept updated. So I’ve set the reminders to have something worthwhile posted up before this time next week!
Have a good weekend.
