social networks

The love affair between Critic and Creative, Left-Brain and Right-Brain

by Nathaniel Hansen, Athens, Greece

A central first thought about those entering social initially: lighten up! Have fun! If social networking is like a cocktail party, then treat it as such: this is when humans get to have fun! Find what you love and be THERE.

To continue: jaded individuals and critics are THE greatest allies to creative, social beings, pushing the Creatives to higher heights of brilliance. In the best case scenario, these two are like lovers: The Critic and The Creative, driving, enticing, seducing, pushing one another to their best.

To be more clear: Love exists and always will. Find what/who you love and socialize about that, market that, sell that. If you don’t love it, aren’t into it, and only are pushing it for money, this will become abundantly clear. The passionate brands sell fun (after identifying pain points, of course)! Some fun ad campaigns out now:

http://bit.ly/time_to_cheer_up

What is the name of your planet?

“If they turn on advanced search tools, this can threaten Google.com. All this social aggregated content will yield a powerful database of what you and your friends like, the precursor to customized web experiences and social advertising.” ~ Jeremiah Owyang, an internet analyst with the Altimeter Group

Welcome to the opportunity to create your own planet. Starting with your Facebook page and then adding a Flickr account, a YouTube channel, a SecondLife avatar, a Last.fm channel, a Twitter profile, a StumbleUpon or Digg profile, a WordPress, Tumblr or Blogger blog, you can assemble your own tribe, create your own advertising, monitor the traffic within your world and be its leader. Find intelligence from leading sources. Ready your rocket and leave planet earth for your own planet, fellow Human. Earth is Chalmun’s Cantina. Come and visit when you like, especially when you need a tactile experience with flesh, sand, forest, and fellow friends, easily found through services like MeetUp.

Social networks have changed the face of what it means to be human.

Social networks have changed the face of what it means to be human. We are no longer bound by the confines of the physical realm. Human social networks are launching pads, entrance halls, to the fantastic and limitless realm of spirit…welcome to Forever, mankind. We are moments from a collectively-experienced “tasting” of once intangible concepts like Infinity, Forever and Eternity.

Virtual goods are the new economy. We are firmly caught in a river of thought that is carrying all of us into vicinities known by ancient peoples: places like Dreamtime AND Hyperborea. Our very dreams, the images that fill our minds, have a value to ourselves, our communities, our pareas, our World.

The nature of competition has changed forever. And the earth from which we now may mine gold IS firmly the Imagination.

Those who are primarily physically-oriented and adept in the realm of Density (not a negative or perjorative realm at all) are now being introduced to the Subtler realms – places well known by artists, poets, philosophers, meta-physicians and the like. They need only apply the same principles to the Invisible realm and their livings will be secure. The practioners of the subtle are now free to peddle their goods, their crafts and, most importantly, the fantastic realms of Within, a far vaster realm than Without. ~ Nathaniel Hansen

The collective multi-dimensional experience

Fabulous global-novel woven with status updates; Terrific Troubadours tweeting the current IT; Visionary Directors/Editors mashing, and re-mashing, billions of minutes of movement and music; Rivers of images finding semantic-tributaries…what was hidden is now apparent, the human psyche is now opening into a collectively-realized multi-dimensional experience. What will be the FIRST singular thought to pass like a wave across every social property?

~ Nathaniel Hansen