The Blog and Soul Movement has a tagline.
Over the weekend I realized the power of viral marketing over the web. With blogs, forums, podcasts and other real world connectivity synchronizers like SMS campaigns, the web can be a powerful albeit scary place to spread all sorts of information.
“The Internet” falls under several “amoral” real world machinations such as “liquor” and “firearms.” They are neither good nor bad, and it all depends on the user to turn these instruments into accomplices for doing goodness or evil. I’d like to think that the Blog and Soul Movement is a means to help achieve great things - a “bridge” of some sort to help bloggers become better bloggers and critics. Blogs are powerful. One post can actually make difference, I realized. And if bloggers become more and more credible in their niches, they can become prime movers of society.
If you blog it they will come.
This is a play with words with a famous quote back in the late 80’s from the movie Field of Dreams with Kevin Costner.
6:39 am on May 21st, 2007
Heya, guys! You got a great thing here! Let me know if I can help in any way.
6:51 pm on May 21st, 2007
“Blogs are powerful. One post can actually make difference, I realized. And if bloggers become more and more credible in their niches, they can become prime movers of society.”
True. We must must transcend the common belief that blogs are “just personal, nothing more”. We must realize that blogging is a tool for social transformation - to create, to be positive, to contribute.
9:28 pm on May 23rd, 2007
I think we’ve successfully reached the point where blogs influence lives, much like how SMS changed the way we communicate.
Now for our blogs to make a positive difference, that is the ultimate challenge.