How do I explain you?

How do I explain you?

* The original post disappeared, this is a re-write to the best of my memory.

How do I explain you, my network? Within our Ed Tech department we have been discussing the issues I listed on a previous post. I have also been talking to educators from various schools. Every day I make the following comments; I was speaking with…, I was chatting with an educator from…etc. I always get some pretty odd looks and I believe they think I am making it up. The other day someone called me on it and said when and where do you talk to these people. I tried to explain how I participate in my network. I do not think it satisfied them. Even those who know the tools of networking can not fully understand unless they participate.

5 thoughts on “How do I explain you?”

  1. Beth
    I have to certainly agree with you on this one — especially with the “looks”.

    I also always say “I Talked” with so and so today — even though it might just be text. For some reason, it feels like we have really talked.

    My online network seems more real, more personable, more helpful, more “there” at times than people I see each day.

    I am enjoying this strain of conversation and look forward to where you will be taking it.

    Thanks
    Jen

  2. Maybe it would be better to show what you are talking about rather than trying to explain it. Have this person sit with you for 15 minutes and show how you make the connections. Show them Twitter, show your reader, show your connections. They may begin to understand just a little bit better.

  3. Maybe we should just send you 8×10 glossies of all of us and you can put us up on your wall. Just tell everyone we’re your less attractive cousins from overseas 🙂

  4. Ben – Love the idea. I am in the process of making a poster with the pictures, logos or avatars of my network. Going to hang it over my desk with a big sign. S0mething like – My Network a part of the greater mind.

  5. I think of the people in my “network” as colleagues, no different than the ones I see at work every day, and just like you, I refer to them all the time.

    Just like the face-to-face people stop by my office, the people in my network pop in go my google chat window and say hi, ask a question, or pass along a tip.

    People are always asking me “how do you find this stuff?” … it’s the Internet and my network. They’re omnipresent. Plug in and the Internet speaks to you and whispers secrets in your ear.

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