Roundtable Recap: January 19 – The Future of Social Media

During this week’s roundtable, we had a wonderful set of discussions on the Future of Social Media.

Black Med-Connect (B-MED)

We first had Dr. Jasmine Weiss from Chapel Hill, North Carolina, pitch the B-MED / Black-Med-Connect mobile app for the Black medical community, a specialized social / professional network idea.

How to Build and Monetize a Technology Entrepreneurship Blog: Social Media Strategy

Social Media Strategy: How should you engage with social media?

Social Media is a lot of little things.

You need a Facebook Strategy.

You need a LinkedIn Strategy.

How to Build and Monetize a Technology Entrepreneurship Blog: Platform Strategy

Platform Strategy: What platform should you write on?

When I started, most of us early bloggers were writing on WordPress.

I set up my own domain (sramanamitra.com) and built my site around WordPress.

Today, you have many more options.

How to Build and Monetize a Technology Entrepreneurship Blog: Mission and Positioning

Mission and Positioning: Why are you doing this?

I started blogging because I love to write, and I have a lot of opinions on all sorts of topics. I love entrepreneurship. I have always been passionate about entrepreneurship development, ecosystem building, entrepreneurship education, incubation, and acceleration. I have a love for Development Economics and have always viewed entrepreneurship as an important tool for economic development. 

How to Build and Monetize a Technology Entrepreneurship Blog: Introduction

I started blogging on Technology Entrepreneurship in April 2005. The Internet was different then. There was no Smartphone. Social Media was just starting. Facebook and LinkedIn were new concepts.

Today, in 2021, building and monetizing a Technology Entrepreneurship Blog requires a very different strategy than the one I started with.

In this multi-part series, I will lay out a fully fleshed out roadmap of how to do so with contemporary tools.

How Can We Continue to Use Facebook Without Facebook Manipulating Us?

The media is currently rife with articles about Facebook’s various nefarious practices and sinister violations of user privacy. Against that backdrop, I would like to invite my readers to a slightly different discussion: How can we use Facebook without Facebook manipulating us?

I am interested in continuing to use Facebook. In various ways, I find the platform useful. However, I have never been big into sharing a lot of personal details on Facebook. You won’t find my birthday listed on the platform, so I do not receive thousands of birthday wishes from random followers. I don’t post a lot of family photos. I will, however, share with you how I use Facebook and my thinking behind those usage models. I am very interested in learning how each of you are using Facebook, what experiments you have conducted, and what conclusions you have drawn.

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Social Media Is Hurting Our Well-Being

By Guest Author Dan Schawbel

Publisher Credit: Excerpted from Back to Human: How Great Leaders Create Connection in the Age of Isolation by Dan Schawbel. Copyright © 2018. Available from Da Capo Lifelong Books, an imprint of Perseus Books, LLC, a subsidiary of Hachette Book Group, Inc.

Technology is fueling loneliness. I’m an introverted entrepreneur who sometimes spends way too long tucked away inside my home office and not enough time interacting with others. And while I’ve often thought that isolation and solitude give me a chance to recharge, I’ve also noticed that when I spend too much time alone, not only do I get lonely, but the next time I’m around people I feel somewhat awkward and stumble over my words. Those are just my symptoms. Many researchers have studied the effects of isolation on our minds, cognitive abilities, and health. >>>

An Antidote to Social Media Addiction

I’ve thought a lot about the world we’re marching towards in which virtual interactions and relationships far outweigh real, in-person exchanges. The art of conversation, body-language, human and humane interaction – holding hands, looking at people with meaningful warmth – are fading away.

I write this for those who share my discomfort.

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