Facebook’s decision to redesign the Fan Page forces brands to act less like companies and more like humans. Fan Pages now resemble and operate more like the profiles of individuals. Brand status updates are now funneled into the Public Newsfeed effectively pushing Big Brands, who are little on the internet, into the schoolyard with us, the big kids, the consumers.
We’ve been piecing together our digital identities for a long time, but Twitter has provided a new and distinctive way of doing so. Unlike any other digital communications platform, Twitter prompts us to uniquely build our identity 140-characters-at-a-time. Or tweets. Since our first tweet, we start progressively narrating our public digital personalities by constantly associating and disassociating with articles, thoughts, images, and videos. It allows us to express who we are, to create, recreate and continually tweak a fluid public mosaic.
If there's one thing I've learned after spending almost two decades of my life sitting in classrooms, it's how to make a good paper plane. Coincidentally, the process of creating a successful digital marketing strategy has a lot in common with the process of creating a successful paper plane.
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