Last night as a I was sending my thank yous to new followers on Twitter and updating my Status on Facebook and accepting new friends there and checking out my space (which I have to say isn’t my favorite) Facebook seems to be so much more user friendly and less polluted with scammers, marketers and pick up artists. I digress anyway.. As I was attending to daily business and yes of course trying not to get lost in these updates –because you know you can spend literally hours on these sites if you are not careful.. and still not finish your regular customer to do list.

Months prior I had learned about Sherman Hu from a class I had taken, it covered everything related to Social Media it was intense. Sherman was one of the guest video speakers. He did these great video interviews explaining video production, streaming video and the ins and outs to utilizing video online successfully.

Two days ago I looked him up on twitter and sent him a nice little note saying I’m gonna follow him… then a day later he follows me. I send him a thank you.. and then later that evening (which was last night) he sees me on facebook and sends me an instant chat. See how it works.. social media is so awesome!!

We chatted and got to have a real conversation one on one for over an hour. He shared some tips and tricks, I learned about his life, he learned about mine a bit and just talked about general stuff.

Prior to WEB 2.0 I would have probably had to sign up for a conference somewhere to go listen to him speak and hope I had 5 minutes of his time to ask him some business related questions. We would have probably never gotten to know anything more than that about each other.. connect in a real personal way.

I hope you see the importance of WEB 2.0 and what I described up above. It literally shows you — you can achieve anything you want to do because now you are in control of your networking like never before. Don’t get me wrong it’s not all about networking for business it’s about meeting new nice people and developing new connections with others around the world. But if expanding your knowledge, learning or growing your business is a goal of yours then there is no better place to be than on the web to learn, grow, network or mentor others.

I look forward to meeting Sherman Hu some day and will continue to follow his blogs and video UStreams and admire him even more for being approachable, responsive, and real.

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Luv At