Own Your Words
Chris O'Donnell
Web Development sales and sales engineering professional combining that background with a Citizen Access and Identity Management solution to help public sector entities achieve their digital transformation goals.
This times 1000. I've owned my own space on the web since 1995. Facebook and LinkedIn are fine as distribution channels. However every update you post to Facebook, every photo you share there, and all your posts here on LinkedIn are going to vanish someday. They exist only because the host sites can make money on their existence. When your content hosted here or at Facebook costs more than it produces, it will go away. It is just a matter of when. When Facebook or LI finally fall apart, they will likely sell the data they have collected on you. Who is going to end up with all that data, and what will they do with it?
If you aren't willing to spend $10 a month on a place to share your point of view, you are telling us a lot about how you value your words.
This is an edited version of a blog post I wrote in 2012.
Territory Account Manager At Serta Simmons Bedding
9yYeah Chris O'Donnell I am that good :-) Thanks Bruce Zimmerman too funny!
Revenue Generation | Experiential Events
9yThat day will be sure to come.
Web Development sales and sales engineering professional combining that background with a Citizen Access and Identity Management solution to help public sector entities achieve their digital transformation goals.
9yTim Mushey is such a social media ninja that he even gets credit for the stuff I write now :)
Senior Enterprise Account Executive - SLED
9yWell done Mr. Mushey, well done! Thank you for sharing your story.
Web Development sales and sales engineering professional combining that background with a Citizen Access and Identity Management solution to help public sector entities achieve their digital transformation goals.
9yThanks Tim. I'm constantly amazed, or maybe dismayed, by people who claim stuff like their blog or email is mission critical to their livelihood, then they entrust it to a free ad-supported provider with no support available if something goes wrong. As they saying goes, if you aren't paying for your online service you are not a customer. You are the product.