A piece of advice for anyone wanting to participate in the social media world. Although it may be tempting to make friends with everyone in the scene, resist, and get out into the world, not just the industry, and talk to people in complimentary and completely different fields.

I know from experience that the social media scene will fall into distinct echo chambers, no matter what happens, and then what happens is we all talk to each other, about the same things. Agreeing, disagreeing, repeating, saying the same thing but using different words. It becomes one big circle of noise.
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Buzz Bishop, a local traditional journalist and budding social media advocate, has been thinking a lot about echo chamber feedback, and what happens when it’s all the same people at all the same conferences and on the same networks, talking about all the same things. Are we just talking to ourselves?
Buzz has kindly offered his thoughts on the this very possibility below:
Gary Vaynerchuk has been making the media rounds to hype up his book, 101 Wines – but it’s not your usual wine book tour.
He’s not all over the Food Network, or the lifestyle shows – he’s on MSNBC doing …read more