Have you ever envisioned your life as if you were living a movie or a television show?
OK, now answer that question honestly. You know how it goes. You’re in the car and you’re sure there are credits rolling behind you. You enter a room and you’re positive you hear either grand music or a laugh track. Right?
I don’t know about you, but to me Social Media sometimes seems like a crazy movie that we enact on little boxes of varying sizes. I was thinking about that today as I watched various people “do their things,” as it were, and I realized that amongst the people I see on a fairly regular basis online, there are two movies playing. Those movies are Heathers, that cult classic from 1988 (holy cow I can’t believe it’s that old!) and Whale Rider, from 2002.
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Apparently, today is Monty Python Day. I’m not sure why. I’m not sure who came up with this concept. However, I most heartily approve. I have had a post idea rolling around in my head, in fact, that incorporated Monty Python, and there seems like no better time than today to let that post free. Therefore, without further delay, allow me to present 15 bits of Social Media advice from Monty Python.
In the May issue of Fast Company Magazine, there was an article called Lessons of LeBron. Though I’ve had the issue out on my desk since I got it, it’s taken me awhile to read it. I figured it would be a lot of chest thumping and hero worship for a man who broke my city’s heart.
When I went to Lincoln’s house last Friday, there was something odd about the inside tour. There weren’t tour guides, first of all, but rather personnel stationed throughout the house to make sure you didn’t touch anything and to try to answer random questions to the best of their abilities. The second weird thing is that the little signs in each room had a cell phone number you could call for an audio tour. I thought that was kind of “retro.” Why not have a QR code or even something more creative, like a special account you could tweet for information?
One of the first books I read from as a child was a little light blue paperback book about Abraham Lincoln. I don’t know how many times I read it, but I remember always being hypnotized most especially by the tales of his youth, when he scratched out lessons on the wall as he rested from a hard day of manual labor. I read that book, but I had no idea that it was the beginning of a dream.
As I’m listening to all of this talk about Osama Bin Laden, I’m hearing a certain phrase a lot. “Rules of Engagement.” I decided to look at how this phrase is actually defined, at least according to that treasure trove of data, Wikipedia.