Seth Godin:Why The Internet is One "Giant Cocktail Party."

The internet is a "giant cocktail party", according to business expert Seth Godin. Here, he gives his take on whether sites like Twitter and Facebook matter to your business. Watch other videos with Seth Godin and Tom Peters in Inside the Entrepreneurial Mind: New Perspectives on Business.

My Head Hurts Too Many Social Networks

Well Seth (Seth Godin) you did it again....Great post today....And quite frankly, I am guilty of attempting to be everywhere on every social site. Below is a great quote...Read the entire blog post at his blog. You gotta go get his new book Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us. Find it cheap on Amazon just click on the link. I am reading my copy now.

"If you have a presence on twitter, squidoo, blogs, facebook, myspace, linkedin and 20 other sites, the chances of finding critical mass at any of them is close to zero. But if you dominate, if you're the goto person, the king of your hill, magical things happen. One follower in each of twenty places is worthless. Twenty connected followers in one place is a tribe. It's the foundation for building something that matters."

Seth Godin's Simply Quiz for Us (the knowledge workers)

I wanted to share this from Seth Godin...Do YOU know how to do the following??

The growing productivity divide

Here's a simple quiz:

• Can you capture something you see on your screen and paste it into Word or PowerPoint?
• Do you have a blog?
• Can you open a link you get in an email message?
• Do you read more than five blogs a day?
• Do you have a signature in your outbound email?
• Do you have an RSS reader?
• Can you generate a PDF document from a Word file you're working on?
• Do you know how to build and share a simple spreadsheet using Google Docs?
• Do have a shortcut for sending mail to the six co-workers you usually write to?
• Are you able to find what you're looking for on Google most of the time?
• Do you know how to download a file from the internet?
• Do you back up your work?
• Do you keep track of contacts using a digital tool?
• Do you use anti-virus software?
• Do you fall for internet hoaxes and forward stuff to friends and then regret it?
• Have you ever bought something from a piece of spam?

Can you imagine someone who works in a factory that processes metal not knowing how to use a blowtorch? How can you imagine yourself as a highly-paid knowledge worker and not know how to do these things... If you don't, it's not hard to find someone to teach you.