Long before this site existed . . . long before the Internet, there were conversation stations. Be it the busy marketplace bazaar or the quietude of a cave drawing, since chalk on a rock and smoke in a stack, we've had conversation stations.
And while our current age seems to favor the semantic web and social networks as its tools of choice, there will be changes in tools, but similarities in other elements.
For the past several years, this site has been dedicated to teaching others how to use the toolset of social and self publishing to further their relationships and their message. There have also been occasions to teach and train using other forms of conversation stations, such as pulpits and classrooms, coffee tables and boardrooms.
But conversation is, in my mind, tied more to behavior than to delivering messages ad nauseum. Conversation is as much (more?) listening as talking – as much behavior in silence and solitude as it is noise making in a crowd.
That's where this site and its efforts are heading. Not so much away from "social media" – but closer to the complete package of conversation as an art.
So stick around . . . or not:-) We've much to learn together. Online and offline.
Photo on Flickr by Will Lion
