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Get out of your echo chamber.

You need to think crit­i­cally. You need to ques­tion. You need to sup­port.

You can’t be blind to crit­i­cism. Events like SMAZ are a per­fect exam­ple of why so many peo­ple seem to have absolutely no idea how to get bet­ter. Who was the event for? Busi­nesses look­ing to get INTO social media. Who was a large and loud por­tion of atten­dees? The same exact peo­ple that attend every other social media sem­i­nar in the Val­ley. Given this, you’d expect rau­cous dis­cus­sion, plenty of dis­agree­ment and talks of improvement.

But that’s not what happened.

Instead we got blind RTing. A sheep-like accep­tance of what­ever the speak­ers decided to talk about. Did they offer plenty of good solu­tions? Sure, but not a damn per­son on Twit­ter that day dared ques­tion even a sin­gle thing they said. We don’t need cheer­lead­ers, peo­ple. We need thinkers. You want to get bet­ter? You actu­ally have to dis­agree once in a while. Sure, it’s scary, but it’s always scary to lead.

Every cheer­leader is doing peo­ple like Evo Terra, Pam Slim , Jason Baer and Jeff Mori­arty a dis­ser­vice. Hell, they might as well be speak­ing to their moms at this point for all the pos­i­tive feed­back they get.

Not to say they’re wrong, but what are they say­ing that’s dif­fer­ent? What are they say­ing that’s new? What are they say­ing that can be improved on? Is any­one steal­ing their stuff?

Get off of Twit­ter and ask ques­tions. Stand up and say some­thing. Be part of the Col­lab­o­ra­tion Rev­o­lu­tion and actu­ally give our com­mu­nity lead­ers feed­back they can use to GET BETTER.

I bet they’ll be glad you did.

Christ, it’s hap­pen­ing every­where!

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