Where Online REALLY Intersects With Offline – thanks @jasonfalls

Mark Story | November 22, 2008 in Intersection of online and offline | Comments (3)

I’ve had a pretty good “offline” week that is a direct result of a pretty good online week.

Last Saturday, I “celebrated” a birthday (anyone over 40 puts “celebrate” in somewhat sarcastic quotations), but I must have received more than 30 birthday wishes via Facebook and Twitter. Although I don’t use it, I understand that Facebook has a little reminder when your friend’s birthday is near. That’s all well and good, but you still have to take the “offline” initiative to say “Hey, Mark’s a decent guy, I’ll send him birthday greetings.” And I appreciated every single one. Online wishes made offline happiness. And then there was today.

My pal and social media guru Jason Falls made the following post on Twitter:

$Jason Falls\' Tweet$

The man has a following, let me tell you, because I have picked up bunch of new friends/followers since Jason’s shout out. I owe Jason a big thanks, but also to those of you who chose to follow me today. Several have remarked that if Jason says I’m “freakin’ brilliant,” then the pressure is really on.

So rather than trying to be witty or snarky (read yesterday’s post: “Lou Capozzi to Me: You Are Like a Right Wing Talk Show Radio Host ), let me give some online thanks for some online love to those who chose to follow me today. And I believe in what we refer to as “linkey love,” so I thought that if you were nice enough to take Jason’s advice and follow me today, I’d like to offer you some “linkey love” in return. So, I have listed every person who began following me this morning and would like to say “thank you” to all of them. I gave this some thought on the “is this creepy?” scale, and then remembered that anyone can see who anyone is following anyway. So my thanks go to:

Thanks, guys, I’ll try to be brilliant.

Mark

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Comment by Tiffany — November 29, 2008 at 9:24 pm

Thanks for the shout-out Mark! This was nice of you.
Comment by Richard — December 6, 2008 at 12:03 am

After watching Gary Vaynerchuk’s latest episode he mentioned Google Blog search, so I decided to search on my name and lo and behold my name appeared on here and made me think “ooo”

Thanks for the shout out, much appreciated
Comment by Anna Tarkov — December 23, 2008 at 9:16 am

I just saw this now. Thanks for the shout-out Sorry that the thanks has been so delayed in coming. I’ve been insanely busy! Covering the Mayor of Chicago is a full-time job and now I’ve got a “real” full-time job to go along with it. I’d rather just work on the stuff I want to, but beggars can’t be choosers in this economy.