Saturday, March 18, 2006

OK, I finally jumped onto the MySpace bandwagon

12:03 PM 4 comments

I admit it: I've been skeptical about MySpace for a while now.

To me, it just seemed like something that would have been fun to do in high school or college; but as a business person, probably not a prudent use of my time.


Then I read this article from the USA Today about MySpace that educated me further.

"Traffic on MySpace has grown 318% in the last year to 37.3 million visitors in February, making it the top social networking site on the Web and the eighth most popular website overall, according to ComScore Media Metrix. In July, Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. bought MySpace for $580 million."

THEN, I was interviewed by FastCompany (look for my article in the upcoming May issue!), during which the topic of MySpace came up. And I learned how Dane Cook has utilized MySpace as his #1 marketing tool that's catapulted his career tremendously, i.e., because of MySpace, Dane Cook's SNL appearance was the highest rated episode in several years.

Now, I've also read articles like this that discuss possible downsides to MySpace. In addition, I've heard it gets very addicting and could potentially invite online predators.

In the end I figured, what the hell - I'll do it. So I sucked it up, took a few hours to get my page together, (with the help of Design Shark Studios), and here it is:

www.myspace.com/thatguywiththenametag

Now, my page has only been up for a week, but I gotta say: it's pretty damn cool. I'm really enjoying it. I've met some cool new people, re-connected with old friends; even started a second blog called "Adventures in Nametagging."

This new blog will chronicle daily, short, fun, nametag-related stories ONLY, most of which WILL NOT be posted on this blog. So, definitely check out the new page, subscribe to the new blog, and if you're already on MySpace, I would love to be your friend!

Ultimately, I guess it just makes sense: MySpace is a virtual front porch. I probably should have gotten on it a long time ago. Oh well! I'm there now!

LET ME ASK YA THIS...

What's your position on MySpace in terms of 1) business, and 2) personal capacities?

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Scott Ginsberg
Author/Speaker/That guy with the nametag
www.hellomynameisscott.com

4 comments:

Woah, thanks for the plug! Official site should be up by Friday, hopefully. :)
I think that MySpace rocks if you're trying to reach the group of people that will be in charge of everything in the next 5-10 years. And then when they call you for a speech, you can say, "I really liked that fauxhawk you had way back in 2006" and laugh about it.
As far as for personal use, I'm addicted. It's replaced e-mail and I have no idea why. Plus I talk to people more often now than before the craze.

Rockin post. Welcome to MySpace!

I've been a myspacer for almost a year and think it is a great tool! I must say I'm tired of people thinking it is just for teenagers or college kids. It is a great site for people of all ages! I will be sending you a friend request soon! By the way, love your blog, been reading it for about a month now. I may even start wearing a nametag myself!

ok I think I read about you in a January post of Micro Persuasion

but the short of it is that i googled you up the other day because i wanted to re-read some of your ideas ... and i came across this post in your blog ... and thought "well maybe someday i'll go investigate that ..."

then tonight I'm writing for my own web site MarillaAnne... which i think is probably a glorified and very random blog ... and in preparing to promote Moopheus, i discovered that lo and behold the uh bull has a myspace! Moopheus of The Meatrix

ok so that was just the last straw. i went and examined both of ya'll's myspaces and thought "mmmm" and so i signed up. MarillaAnne's MySpace

Cool, MarillaAnne! Glad to have you aboard the blogosphere and myspace place.

See ya.

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