what about wearing both argyle socks AND parachute pants...would that open a rift in the space time continuum?

also, BOO VNECKS

Yeah! Great idea, great execution. Seems like there should be a standardized app/site for event streaming beyond ustream etc. Is there?

That I could allow myself to be forgiven.

Great points! Tying in the basketball analogy helped to make it very clear.

Something I might add to this that people should ask themselves is: Do I need social networking? I've seen a lot of groups and small businesses get twitter accounts and invest in social networking and SEO when they don't know what they want or need or how to measure their goals.

So my addition would be to advise people to have a dang gameplan if you want to use social networking! People with true expertise in the field probably won't work with you unless you have a strategy beyond setting up a bunch of accounts...unless you're going to them to help develop your strategy to begin with. Have in your head or better yet on paper...or better still in an openoffice.org writer document (love it) what your goals are. Then let your expert set out a path.

Dang! I'll second that.

I'm a rockstar because I'm learning to hate myself a little bit less every day...only by the grace of God. Sounds odd, but this is the hardest thing for me to do.