Graphic Conversations
Posted on 09. Feb, 2009 by Kimberly in Blog
As the growth of social networking inspires new start-ups and engages people instead of just paper shuffling, there is a dynamic visual aspect that truly speaks to me. A while ago (December 17, 2008 in fact) I showed you a Wordle (Wordle is a tag cloud tags of the words used in your site, feed and so on.) which was a visualy respresentation of this sites’ tag cloud. Now there is a new way to create a visualization, but from the conversations of your twitter followers, called TweetSheep. 
I was immensely impressed with the tag cloud representing the conversations of my twitter followers. These captured the topics that I am most drawn to and engage when I chat on Twitter, so it does make sense that the people that are drawn to me are interested in the same things, for the most part. However, to have a graphic representation depicting what BlueWave Media is about and what I am personally stoked by, is wonderful.
Maybe the social media boom will not last, as some say, but I think anything that brings the real conversation to the forefront, allows true transparency and builds relationships is something that not only customers will fight for, but businesses that have stepped out to a new frontier will embrace. I truly believe that there will be continuous re-birthing of tools, toys and ideas, that is how technology evolves; the basic need for conversation and interaction that has quenched the thirst of a politicized, over spammed and hungry global nation of people who are looking for more.
What will the final model be? Who really knows, but I applaud those who develop and inspire the rest of us. Those who engage and break down the walls to reveal what we all want — to be truly ourselves, doing what we truly love to do and make a living doing it.
To those of you who join in the conversation, I respect and admire you. To those who are waiting or do not know why they would want to do so, this may be the times and the economy that nudge you to do so, or may force you to reconsider what you really want from your business.
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Kimberly Beaven is a Web Designer and Creative Director of BlueWave Media. She is is truly a gadget girl who loves architecture, photography, design and coding. Learn more via twitter or her Google Profile. If you enjoyed this post, please subscribe to our RSS feed.