The point of starting this blog was to create a portal through which I could write about what I wanted, when I wanted.  My intention was never to develop my own personal brand or become the world's foremost authority on anything.  I just wanted to write.

That said, I am going to use this blog as something a little different for the next month: as my home base in an social media experiment I am undertaking. I am going to dance the social media dance for one month.

 

The breakdown of my experiment:

 

1. Write an original blog post every day.  Because I still want this to be my safe zone, I will still be writing about the internets and anything else I find interesting.  Once a day though.
2. Synthesize the 5 most interesting stories of each weekday and put them here.  I have pledged to do this countless times, and have never done so.  I am going to do it now -- GET TO THE CHOPPA.
3. "Tweet" 10 times a day.  This might not sound like a lot, but I HATE "tweeting" random shit like "just leaving the gym" so this really means finding 10 articles/websites/videos/lovemaking tips that I think are interesting enough to tell people to check out.  See, doesn't that sound more difficult?
4. Tumblr + Flickr = I am still finding these redundant, it's true.  But I will post 15 times this month.

 

The purpose of this experiment is to find out how much activity it takes to gain followers on twitter.  I am interested in this because so many people on Twitter tout themselves "experts" in social media, but previously had jobs as Northeastern Sales reps for Bally's (just an example -- obviously not everyone on Twitter used to work at Ballys, some of you sold insurance) or owned a hardwood flooring company.

Obviously the end outcome of this experiment will not be a definitive measurement of the correlation between activity in social media and Twitter followers, but it should provide some insights into how social media impacts personal branding campaigns.  I will track the entire process here, but should point out that all activity (blogging, tumbling, tweeting, flicking, ha) goes through Twitter.

I should also point out that I am starting this experiment with 92 followers.