by Rob Cottingham | Jan 11, 2012 | Uncategorized
It’s easy to fall into the trap of thinking what we do online isn’t real, and doesn’t matter. And it doesn’t help that we’ve developed the acronym IRL, In Real Life, to refer to the offline world.
But why shouldn’t we regard our online lives as just as real, just as valid and just as meaningful as our offline ones? That’s the question Alex posed a few months ago at TEDx Victoria, proceeding from a blog post she wrote last year for the Harvard Business Review.
The talk, titled “Ten Reasons to Stop Apologizing for your Online Life”, just went live. And if you’ve ever wondered why a valued online friendship doesn’t count as “the real world” while a trip to the mall does – and, more to the point, what you can do about it – you’ll want to watch.
by Rob Cottingham | Jan 9, 2012 | Social Signal
It’s easy to fall into the trap of thinking what we do online isn’t real, and doesn’t matter. And it doesn’t help that we’ve developed the acronym IRL, In Real Life, to refer to the offline world. But why shouldn’t we regard our online lives as just a…
by Rob Cottingham | Jul 29, 2010 | Social Signal
There’s a habit people have of referring to the offline world as “real”… as in IRL, or “in real life”. The implication is that the online world isn’t real, and that the portion of our lives spent there somehow doesn’t count.
Alex challenged this idea…
by Rob Cottingham | Mar 23, 2008 | Blogging
Our friend John Young has dipped his toe in the blogging waters, and then leaped in Mark-Tewksbury-like with a strong stroke, mighty kick, and… eh, I don’t have enough swimming metaphors to draw on. He’s a very good writer – how’s that?... by Rob Cottingham | Mar 30, 2006 | Blogging, Conferences and workshops
We’re putting the finishing touches on Word Power, the Social Signal blogging workshop that Alex and I will be holding at the Hollyhock Centre from May 17 to 21. I’m excited about this: there are a growing number of technical how-to resources for blogging,...