Ok, let's be honest. This site is not exactly a thriving space. But it might receive some attention yet!
So I've kind of been slow to establish my New Year's resolutions... or reflect on what has happened in 2010. All I know is that this time next week, I will be on my Shanghai flight to Xian. I'll be alone. Very alone. For all I know I could come back a different person, somebody with a different resolve, with a different purpose.
That would be pretty sweet. Need some soul searching and running around empty rice fields. We'll see how I go.
But 2010 really opened up my eyes to somethings which I previously had not noticed.
The world is changing, the world as we know it is changing. It's crazy! But it is. And theres very little we can do about it. Right now, the big floods are happening in QLD, and all you hear on the news is the role of social media (Twitter, Facebook) in helping people find people, gathering information etc. It's all changing.
Marketing, well marketing as we know it is dead. Because now everything is on the internet. Google, Facebook, rich, filthy rich, because of ads, marketing. Youtube, same thing.
Ads! Are generating all this revenue. Social media is changing the world, and if we don't go with it, we won't go. The children of today, are already so intermeshed into the reality that is the internet. I can't even imagine what the internet will behold in, 10, 20, 30 years? The cloud will surely be upon us.
But you know where the money is going to be made? It's the investments into the technologies along the way which will make us rich in 10, 20, 30 years.
Influences coming from left, right and centre, Nelson, The Social Network, my new job, The Good Wife's character Eli Gold. So many areas of improvement, so many ideas, so much money and untapped potential to access. But how?
Maybe two weeks of volunteering, semi-isolation and momentary lapses of disconnection from this changing world will tell me? Maybe it's not enough? Maybe I'll miss, or worse, maybe I won't...
Tofa
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