Funny humans,
The only part of this
Universe that flails
And rages, expecting
Full control of this
Immensity.
Category: Personal Reflections
Lessons learned about life; pearls of wisdom I’ve gleaned through pain, failure and honest reflection
The value of Facebook
Lately, I’ve been considering all the changes Facebook has blasted out over the years. Particularly, I’ve been wondering about the Facebook pages I manage. In particular, the many changes to the way business pages interact with the general user concern me. I first noticed this with my personal page feed. Business page content gets filtered out, rarely appearing in feeds, even MY pages in MY feed. I’m also noticing a drop in engagement: comments, questions, dialog, et al. This video takes that concern and provides some flesh to its bones.
Now I wonder about Facebook’s value to small businesses in any capacity. If content and connection gets buried, lost, or goes out to irrelevant audiences, there is no value. Well, little. Ok, well, lesser. The value of Facebook is still immense. Facebook is still a key piece to a social media strategy. It’s THE place, with diverse demographics and a truly global reach. Or, as I like to say, it’s the place with the eye-balls. So, there’s still value in the gorilla that is Facebook, but it’s role and impact have just changed.
Expect that, within this perpetually changing landscape, it’s place and value will change yet again. And again…
Meditation on Greatness
One cannot achieve greatness
Adhering to the status quo.
Mediocrity, numbing the
Quiet desperation, drifting
Through life barely creates
Fertilizer for poppies.
Night’s Comforts
In the night’s darkness
Sometimes I find strange comfort
Peace through self knowledge.
Via Negativa
I try responding
To negativity
By facing this rage,
Sadness, misery, and
Acting against it with
Compassion and love.
For water is what cools
Fire.
Ferguson
Violence doesn’t heal.
Tis a short term thing,
Self-inflicted grief
Building upon agony.
Simmering wreckage,
Quite close to home.
New destruction layered
Upon the old.
Gargantuan pachyderm
Calmly sits,
Ignored.
November’s Grace
Glancing upwards now,
A graying sky calming me.
Rain speckles my lens.
Migraine’s Doom
The pain
Is all
That I
Am
Lust vs Love
A simple thought: physical attraction may be felt towards those disliked, or even despised. Love is richer, deeper. Love seeks the happiness of its focus. Self sacrifice for the beloved: easy, actually pleasing, especially when successful. Generosity’s birthplace is there.
No more glorious sound exists than the laughter of those we love.
Thoughts on the Start of the Week
- Briefly looking back, I’m pleased that I got my inbox back under control. At the start of the day, I was well over 300 emails.
- I highly recommend you start reading Project 562. Matika’s a fantastic photographer, and this project explores the Native American experience. As a member of the Tulalip Tribes, her insights into last week’s school shooting in Marysville are worth the read.
- As for my own writing, I’ve been pleased with the engagement I’ve received at my poetry blog: Asking, Exploring, Seeking. It’s where I’ve been focusing more of that energy, though the busy-ness of this early autumn has impacted that work as well. I’m trying to get back to posting daily.
- I’ve been taking CIS 241, Web Development 1 at Edmonds Community College. Yeah, I know a fair amount about html, and a bit about CSS. I’m mostly self-taught, though, and have long wanted a deeper understanding. Getting up-to-speed with the changes wrought by html 5 have been really cool.
There’s the brief run-down of this week’s highlights in review.