First of all, what a darling picture. Both older Jangros look so awestruck and protective, it's really beautiful :) I completely agree with your observations about how you can learn a lot about a person's intent and character just based on their tweets... When I started, I debated only posting business related updates...then I realized that 1) everyone I know is already ahead of the game, so any news I had would probably already be outdated; and 2) the status updates I enjoy the most, are the ones that let me have a peek of personality. So I figure, if you don't like my tweets, then stop following me. It's the reader's choice, not mine :)
"you can learn a lot about a person's intent and character just based on their tweets"
Ouch, i lack character then. My grandma told me that was the case, but I think it was the morphine talking... that's what i tell myself anyhow.
Janguru, right now, you are among the richest people alive - baby Jang and your family with him in these pics makes Warren Buffet look like a pauper chump. And Bill Gates wishes that he had what you have in your heart and in your days. Though he's got several wives and a gaggle of heirlets, The Sultan of Brunei envies you. I told you those $0.00 checks would add up!
Scott, I wanted to take a few minutes to comment on your excellent post! As you know, I have also been through the experience of having a baby (Lily - born Sunday 8/17) and using the social networks as a tool for communicating the goings on.
I too received warm wishes and congratulations (from you personally - thanks!) ... & from those that I interact with on twitter, facebook etc.. family, friends and even distant friends from years ago were up to date immediately. There was a slight sense of hesitancy on my part about publishing the event, and I have previously held back video posting with my two year old Sierra to avoid "overexposing" my family. However, I felt that this occasion was a perfect use for our new world of communication.
There have been some things written about the upcoming generations and the impact of the internet, gaming et al and how it might increase anti-social behaviors by encouraging less personal face to face interaction. Our recent experiences prove that interactions can be straight up personal if you want them to be..... just in a different form. You and I could never have experienced the births of each others children in real time, unless we just happened to be neighbors.
For that .. I am thankful to you and your wife for letting me be involved. Thank her personally for me. I will always take an interest in how Jason Thomas is progressing through life's stages of infant > toddler > young man.
Of course, I can't keep my brain from going to the business side of things! I haven't been able to get past the lack of " brand involvement". Let me first say that I don't want to pollute the streams and would hate to see too much unfiltered insertion of brands ... but, did you see any brands pick up on the fact that you were having a baby? I didn't. They sure know how to do it at the hospital ... we were sent home with our Similac bag of samples and Pampers diapers. If I were in their shoes I'd be watching the streams for mentions of babies being born, and reach out in some way..... maybe a coupon code or community invite of some kind.
Glad you are all doing well. Hopefully your other kids have accepted this new being in the home .. Sierra gave Lily a "tour" of her room, toys etc.. so she is more comfortable with someone dividing our attention.
See you online....
thanks for the thoughtful reply Joe. It means a lot.
I've been through the same trepidations about going so public with not only me with my silly t-shirt pics, magazine interviews, and otherwise opening up about my business, but especially pictures and videos about my family. I finally got over the concerns and felt that the new level closeness that we can achieve with people from all over the world far outweighs them. I really do feel that opening up and being real with both personal and business stuff has been a really good thing for me.
Your reply here exemplifies that as much as anything else.
Even though you and I haven't met, I liked you from the start thanks to the Red Sox hat and your friendly online persona. I do hope to meet in person someday.
As for "brand involvement" there was just one failed attempt. I forget who it was, but if I remember correctly someone wished me a happy birthday triggered from some post about Jason. I'm sure more of that will come soon.
Congrats again on your own new baby!
Congrats mate! 2 kids are handfull - our youngest just turned 1.. phew :)
However on the social media side, I'm not really into and I know the wife would have my head on plate if I had the HTC out in the delivery room.. oh wait, she delivered on the bathroom floor, but still ;)
Congrats again Jangro family!
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So we've been blessed with another new baby here in the Jangro household. It's been a busy few weeks here since August 7th when Jason Thomas was born. Beyond the normal joys, trials, and tribulations that come with a newborn, there has been a new dimension to such an important event. Social Media.
Since his big brother was born a little more than two years earlier, so much has changed in the online world. And it's hard to even remember what communications were like when his older sister was born 11 years ago.
This time around, I didn't send out an email announcement (though my wife did to her friends and family), yet more people than ever were informed more quickly than ever thanks to the tight online social network that I've developed in the past few years.
Dozens of my online friends and colleagues were enthusiastic witness to some hourly updates of the progress on my wife's induction thanks to Twitter and Flickr. Even my mother and sister followed the minute-by-minute updates on Twitter. My other brother and sister and dozens of other friends kept up through a few facebook updates.
A few days later, I attended a little of Affiliate Summit. And I could not believe that virtually everybody I knew at the show (a lot of people) greeted me with a big "congrats!" What an amazing thing that so many people were completely in the loop about what had happened to me just a few days earlier.
A few people expressed how odd it was that I was posting updates to twitter from the delivery room. But it was a slow start and we were pretty much just waiting for things to happen for most of the morning. To have so many people following along real-time with their well-wishes was pretty crazy, but fun.
There are not many events in a person's live that are at such a high level of importance. And it was interesting to see what happened when it is cast out to the web 2.0 world, particularly Twitter.
Most interestingly, the differences in types of "friends and followers" and how people use Twitter really became very apparent. I don't have a huge group of followers maybe 650 at the time, and I understand that most of them don't watch twitter at all on a day-to-day basis. Though a good subset of them are very active Twitter users. I was pleased, and even a little surprised at how many people, especially those I don't know personally, were seeing my updates and took the time to respond.
Just the same, I was a little let down to see some people who I do know pretty well, were so busy posting their own twitter updates at the usual frenetic pace, somehow didn't seem to notice my posts or the flurry of activity among common friends.
Clearly they're in it for different reasons. I think they're missing the point, or at least missing out.