Share This How You Will Change the World with Social Networking (Audible Audio Edition) Deanna Zandt Tamara Marston Audible Studios Books
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Social networks can be so much more than a way to find your high-school friends or learn what your favorite celebrity had for breakfast. They can be powerful tools for changing the world. With Share This! both regular folks of a progressive bent and committed activists can learn how to go beyond swapping movie reviews and vacation photos (not that there's anything wrong with that).
At the moment, the same kinds of people who dominate the dialog off-line are dominating it online, and things will never change if that doesn't change. Progressives need to get on social networks and share their stories, join conversations, connect with others - and not just others exactly like themselves. It's vital to reach out across all those ethnic/gender/preference/class/age lines that exist even within the progressive camp. As Deanna Zandt puts it, "creating a just society is sort of like the evolution of the species - if you have a bunch of the same DNA mixing together, the species mutates poorly and eventually dies off."
But there are definitely do's and don'ts. Zandt delves into exactly what people are and are not looking for in online exchanges. How to be a good guest. What to share. Why authenticity is more important than just about anything, including traditional notions of expertise or authority. She addresses some common fears, like worrying about giving too much about yourself away, blurring the lines between your professional and personal life, or getting buried under a steaming heap of information overload. And she offers detailed, nuts-and bolts "how to get started" advice for both individuals and organizations.
Share This How You Will Change the World with Social Networking (Audible Audio Edition) Deanna Zandt Tamara Marston Audible Studios Books
This is actually a review by Sunshine Mugrabi--signed into my husband Leor's account.Deanna Zandt has burst onto the book scene with a manifesto to the power of social networking that inspires and teaches. It's also a lot of fun to read--full of humor and warmth. This is one of the few books that gets beyond the nuts and bolts of social media and instead takes a longer view. Zandt guides readers towards a new and more powerful understanding of the immense opportunity the social web offers to marginalized communities. It also challenges all of us to look inside and investigate whether we're still giving too much credence and power to those who have traditionally held it -- that is, white, hetero men. Having said that, this isn't some leftist diatribe--in fact, anyone of any political persuasion can make use of this book to create the kind of change they want to see in the world. In short, this book is well worth the cover price!
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Share This How You Will Change the World with Social Networking (Audible Audio Edition) Deanna Zandt Tamara Marston Audible Studios Books Reviews
This is the most biased book ever, the author is an extreme feminist. Share this has a lot of good points but it is highly opinionated.
Deanna has a passion for making a difference and technology. In Share This! she combines these two passions and offers both a history lesson on when/how to use technology for social good but also a swiss army guide for do-it-yourself-ers. There may be other books that discuss social networks from an anthropological, technical or historical perspective but none that serves as a "how to" manifesto to really make a difference. By all means, go get it. And, start making a difference.
Great book, I had to purchase this for my social media class. I didn't read all of it but what I did read was good.
I've been making a study of social media for the past 2 years or so and have become very interested in the ability of the social media to help people gain a voice and change the world for the better. I looked at a lot of books on and tried to find the ones with the most favorable reviews. One of the books I bought based on this limited research was this book, "Share This!" by Deanna Zandt.
However, I was very surprised to find that the book was of very little use to me. Its biggest problem is that almost all of the information in it is very general and consists of things I've heard several other places before. I found nothing groundbreaking or inspiring in the book. I'm sorry to say this because I was really hoping for a book that would energize me and give me not only a vision but also practical advice about how to use the social media for greater good.
Another problem with the book is that Zandt assumes that new ideas are inherently good ones and seems naïve in other ways. For example, she believes that just sharing information with other people will make us more empathetic, regardless of the level of the interaction involved. To the contrary, often social media can give us the illusion of empathy without the cost of really getting to know someone. She makes the social media appear almost as if they are an unmitigated good and gives little account of how they have inherent limits and problems.
Finally, it's annoying that for all of her talk about empathy and looking at other people's perspectives and being wary of bias, all of her examples are from the liberal side of the political spectrum. One gets the impression that liberal = good and that anyone who isn't politically liberal is part of the problem and not the solution.
In spite of all of the favorable reviews out there, I found "Share This!" very lacking. For someone who has not read much about social media, it will provide a good introduction in many ways, but there are better, more informative, more practical books out there.
You know when you read something that is so great you want to just run down the street and tell everyone that they need to read it, like right now? Yeah, well that's happened to me this weekend when I started (and finished) reading Share This! How You Will Change the World with Social Networking, by Deanna Zandt.
Zandt is a media technologist as well as a consultant to key progressive media organizations including AlterNet and Jim Hightower's Hightower Lowdown, and hosts TechGrrl Tips on GRITtv with Laura Flanders. She specializes in social media, and is a leading expert in women and technology, which clearly gives her a unique background to write this book.
Some of the key ideas that Zandt explores in the book is looking at how social networks are places where we share stories and connect with others. I love that she recognizes that these are not necessarily new phenomena, but that she takes the time to help readers understand how the technology changes the spaces in which we do this as a society. She does this by discussing in depth the issues of trust, authenticity and privacy. At the heart of the book is examining how building empathetic relations really can change the world and she provides clear-cut examples of how this is possible.
This book is funny, engaging, and true to life. You'll find yourself agreeing with Zandt at so many turns and understanding yourself in relationship to social media infinitely better after reading the book. And no matter what you background level in social media is I guarantee that you will find this book entertaining and useful. Also, I rarely ever read the "Resources" section of a book, but I think that this section may be one of the book's greatest strengths. It answers the "so what do I do know" questions you may have, and has really great questions/answers related to some of the key themes, tips for individuals, and insights on how to manage information overload.
This is actually a review by Sunshine Mugrabi--signed into my husband Leor's account.
Deanna Zandt has burst onto the book scene with a manifesto to the power of social networking that inspires and teaches. It's also a lot of fun to read--full of humor and warmth. This is one of the few books that gets beyond the nuts and bolts of social media and instead takes a longer view. Zandt guides readers towards a new and more powerful understanding of the immense opportunity the social web offers to marginalized communities. It also challenges all of us to look inside and investigate whether we're still giving too much credence and power to those who have traditionally held it -- that is, white, hetero men. Having said that, this isn't some leftist diatribe--in fact, anyone of any political persuasion can make use of this book to create the kind of change they want to see in the world. In short, this book is well worth the cover price!
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