We be jammin'...

One of the most important things we can do in this great big social media experiment we are currently involved in is to simply stay in the conversation. We don't need to agree, that's not what it is about. We just need to keep talking (ie: communicate, participate). No one knows it all, infact most of us know very little... Yet, if we keep getting together, experiment, and keep talking and sharing our experiences, the closer we are to understanding the new reality and age that is emerging. Regardless of our own personal opinions, it will be what it will be.

In music we use the term: "You gotta be bad before you can be good." And history demonstrates over and over, Bad often = Good, according to the public (consumer).

This isn't the first worldwide web, excuse me! Our web history actually takes us back to 1825 with the invention of the electromagnet. As a professor of arts and design at New York University in 1835, Samuel Morse proved that signals could be transmitted by wire. He used pulses of current to deflect an electromagnet, which moved a marker to produce written codes on a strip of paper - the invention of Morse Code. (I learned it in Boy Scouts and I'm still just a punk kid in retrospect.)

I love that dude, he was first and foremost a fellow artist. 

The message remembered is, "What hath God wrought?" sent later in "Morse Code" from the old Supreme Court chamber in the United States Capitol to Baltimore on May 24, 1844. This was the real birth of the internet! Crude as it was then, from that day forward the world changed and was rapidly globally connected for those that understood it's potential...

It's not about what's right, wrong, or indifferent... It's about exploration. It's not about the answers, it's about the questions. We live in an age where top down no longer functions the way it use to. Many business models are now unsustainable, yet (hard to wrap our arms around it) simple random cooperation does. We live in the age of the amature. We should celebrate, not freak. The more the consumer knows the more they're going to want/need the consumate professional to represent them with their business dealings. That's not a bad thing, it just is. The bar got raised for everyone.

Anyone who's been around for at least a couple of decades has been inundated with media and its one way hype. Simply put, we're all a part of that and no big mystery. By that I mean, I can do better. I'd rather participate and be the writer, producer and actor than couch potatoe my way through another one way input like TV. (most of the time, anyway)... I at least, actually want to talk with you.

It's about understanding how much of the old business model is broken and there is a new way to conversation. It blends business and social in ways we never anticipated. It's more casual, more social, more real. Duh... I feel more comfortable doing business with someone I know and trust. What a thought.

(Now there's the real mystery)...

As a net searcher, I really don't give a crap what you're selling until I want it. So get over it. But if you're interesting, I might check you out. Show me something. I might come back and check you out.

We're here, let's talk, let's enjoy, let's share... One of the activities I am very dedicated to is talking to everyone in our related real estate industry in person to ask at least one question: "Where do you think it's going?"

Simply put, we're in this together... Sadly, many have already checked out... For me, I do not have this fear. "The future is here, it's awesome!" We have more opportunity now than we ever had before, it's just different... "So let's get busy."

At Ticor we make a concerted effort to practice what we preach, then demonstrate. I love the roundtable networking conversations because it's about sharing. We all learn so much from each other and (the big hidden secret is) we have a lot of fun. I hope the insurance commissioner doesn't make sharing against the law.

To meet every other week with a group of business professionals and talk about life, the universe, the internet, is very compelling. I say friend up and converse... We have several groups on many levels going... The video below is Janet Matzke's Tacoma group. We meet at the Java Fusion on 6th Avenue in the Narrows District of Tacoma. If you're in town, hopefully we'll see you there.

Have an awesome 4th of July and holiday weekend... Take a sec for silent prayer and thank those that kept our dreams and freedom alive...

That's Keller William's very own Scott Cowen (saying, this is Matt Sweet)...