This point makes so much sense. Of course, Gary Stager has made this point several times already, arguing that edubloggers just swing from one thing to the next. The approach I like is to blog or tweet about what you are learning so that your singular experience can have an educational impact on thousands, or more.

• Don’t Keep Up With Social Technology – Conversation Starter – HarvardBusiness.org
• by Alexandra Samuel is CEO of Social Signal, a social media agency.
  • Keeping up is about following someone else’s agenda: the bloggers and tweeters who trot out invitations to the latest beta. The marketers, publicists and journalists who blanket us with coverage about the latest hot tech phenomenon. And yes, the tech consultants who charge tens or hundreds of thousands to add new musts to your already long to-do list.
    The minute you stop trying to keep up, you open a far more exciting possibility: getting ahead with what matters to you, your team and your business.
  • Start choosing technologies that support the goals and priorities that matter to you.

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