social media footprint – what really happened…

So – for this post to make sense, you really have to read the previous post. Haven’t read it as yet? Well, read it here, and I’ll wait while you do!

So although I have been sporadically following what people have been tweeting, blogging and commenting, I decided to give myself a little space away from my networking addiction to see how people would react if I didn’t say anything for a couple of days. As I mentioned in the last post, I was expecting indifferent results from this. I was truly expecting almost nobody to notice that I had not made noise during this time.

How wrong was I!

Honestly speaking, I had expectations from only one person; I knew that come what may, there is one person who definitely WOULD get in touch. Infact, I would be pretty disappointed if I did not even get a “Hey, howz you?” from this person. So it brought a smile to my face when the first message from anyone, was a “Good Morning!” at 5:45am from this friend – it kinda laid the foundation to a good day. As the morning progressed, I got a message from another twitter buddy wondering why I had not tweeted as yet?!

My wing man updated to me about his exams (Good luck buddy! ), and my uber cool “European English” friend checked up to see whether I had kicked the twitter bucket. In between all that, another friend checked in to see how I am getting along in Zurich, and how I was progressing with the book (Twilight) that I am reading in parallel with her.

I shouldn’t have doubted the people who I connect with, I guess part of having an effective network is building those strong bonds between people via good communication. It was a good exercise to conduct, and hopefully I take away stronger trust in certain people, knowing very well who I can count on when I search for guidance.

I’m off to my director’s office to tell him how it worked out….

YOU guys are just too AWESOME!!

Oh…. I’m back tweeting today!

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