Silran's Playground

Sunday, January 31, 2010

Social Media Pondering Yo

People get on my case for doing this social media stuff and wonder why I spend so much time on it, well I don't have a full time job, so that answers one question, but the rest isn't so easy.
Silran666 is myself and as such I want that self pushed to the reaches of the internet to my friends here in SLC and hopefully beyond.
It's my digital self to correlate and correspond to my "real" self, it hopefully has the same personality as me, so that people who know me, "know" it's me.
Given that I'm trying to put out a comic book at Impossible Box Studios, it stands to reason that I as the "artist" should market myself out there and make myself known. Establishing an online presence, makes it easier (one would hope) to develop and have a ready made audience.
Does that sound under handed? It could, if the effort wasn't sincere, if it wasn't fun, and I'm not lying to anybody, anybody who follows me on Facebook or Twitter or Myspace "gets" me and at the very least are amused by my efforts and/or really enjoy my efforts.
But it ends up becoming a job in and of itself I am discovering. So where do I draw the line? That is the big question, for instance, I tried using the social oomph twitter plugin, but have decided to put that on hold after 1 day of use. It became evident that while it did provide some great information, and I am responsible for what kind of information it gives out, it came across to me as spamming and for me that simply did not do. I noticed a drop off in people looking at what I posted.
How did that differ from some of my days when I send out 20 tweets of info in on hour? I control the content, the content does not control me. While one could accuse my firing off as "spammish" it is done with my voice in mind, especially when I add little comments behind my posts.
It's me, and it feels like me, these posts while having my interest immediately did not feel like "me" and I ended it.
Producing, keeping track, responding, being responsible and feeling how the content you develop is being perceived is a lot of work and someday perhaps doing "all" of this will be done from one platform, one app, one location at the push of a button and the whisper of your voice, but in the end it's about doing "manual" labor and right now that is OK with me.
At least it is mine.
Hopefully all of this will pay off you know? Hopefully silran666 is a "known" product and name that links to who I really am, whether that be Manny, Manuel or Manster, but it as a name and as a brand becomes just as much a part of me as my real names.

Saturday, January 30, 2010

Things are a brewing

Can't go much into it, but lot's of things seem to be coming together on multiple fronts, the comic book idea is nearly to the publishing stage (I will make an announcement) and our other project is poised to take off as well.
Still no news on the job front, I do have an interview this Wednesday at Vanjent for a position working for the Census Bureau, we shall see how that works out.
I'm network connecting everyday through the power of social media, it's such an amazing medium really.
A tool which can be used to further one's own presence online as well as further one's one business presence and how it connects to other businesses and patrons.
I will right on this soon because I had a great conversation with my friend @365daygirl whom I know personally and on twitter for 3 hours in our favorite coffee shop @CoffeeConnection. So much so that we almost forgot the real reason we were there for.
So tonight, movies, dancing and breakfast at Ihop once the festivities are done.
Have a great weekend all.

Wednesday, January 27, 2010

Ran into an old Sensory Sweep Big Wig

So last night I was at Brewvies with my business partner getting
something to eat before meeting a potential client when lo and
behold! Who should be there with a female brunette but Chris R
himself!
There was the momentary shock of recognition, then the re composure
and finally admittance of the event.
We shook hands as breaking into FF battle would have ruined the bar
potentially delayed my meeting, and proceeded with strained small
talk.

Paraphrased:
Chris: Oh hey how you doing, long time no see, what you up to?
Me: Oh you know, hanging in there trying to keep myself busy doing
stuff.
Chris: Same here, trying to keep busy doing stuff. I've been very
fortunate that I'm able to work out of my house.
Me: !... Well that is great. I'm shooting for the same thing, maybe
work 3 hours on site but stay home the rest of the time. Your lucky
you get to do that.
Chris: Oh yeah for sure...
Me: ...
Chris: ...Well guess I better get going. It was nice seeing you.
Me: For sure, you take care.
Chris Same to you. See ya.
Me: See ya.

Me after he walked away and he couldn't see my face: $%#&*(*@#$$ (with
an evil grin I might add)
Mentioned it to my partner who thought it amusing, didn't see him
until 20 minutes later when he came out to get food.
Still short, still has that grey sweater with a long sleeve shirt
underneath (light blue, pink, white, can't remember but you know what
I mean) and still seems to have to long of humanly normal arms in
proportion to his torso.
Never saw him after that.
Thought you might want to know.

Tuesday, January 26, 2010

Busy Day doing some personal business stuff

Well this turned out to be a busy day. Lot's of stuff done in the the name of Impossible Box Burning Phoenix, but I think that Lance and I got a lot done and developed a definite list of things to do in terms of our current project.
Prologue is done on the comic book I'm working on and I'm working on Chapter 1 right now.
I do have an interview next week with Census for a job (hopefully) managing the people on the floor.