Game of Gnomes

 I happened to capture this Tweet a few weeks back … and I’m not even online 24x7, not even an honest day’s worth of 8 hrs [I have a REAL life full time job] …. 

I have found that the latest feature that has crept up and captured my attention, for whatever that is worth [these days=nothing] Twitter has started to encapsulate conversations and link the same twitter train (essentially, what it is doing, organizing profiles under the umbrella of a, let’s call it a “Master Tweet”. If you are lucky to be included with a large number of influencers, who acknowledge by a like [heart] or a reTweet [ #RT ] can cast a much larger web.

Lamb by Catherine Darling

If you are a Bleater (a lamb’s annoying noise or cry) with content that lack substance are Bleater online …. a newly created word by me to describe online behavior that repeatedly shares lovely images of flowers, sunsets, beautiful vistas. A Bleater is a noun, as in a person.

Twitter is likely creating secret analytics and algorithm symphony to create the proverbial carrot scattered about among rabbits [ for the purpose of this story and theme, let’s say that the big BRANDS are rabbits ]. But for a uniqueness score and continued theme, brands will be called Grabbits. Grabbits could be Coca Cola, Tesla, or Trump Towers.

Grabbits are slowly developing a very large appetite for carrots. The carrots that rabbits cherish, evolved to the online, social media, world we still get a spellcheck or (insert name: Grammarly - who I use) whenever you type “influencer” or “influencers”. We can’t grammatically call them anything that sounds like SIRs because of the many GALs that share the same space.  Yes, those cute, adorable, engines working to separate you from your money.

For ease of speech and spelling, the influencers are dubbed “The Doers”. These are the people that can make or break your opinion, the popular opinion of those online {amassing and growing by leaps and bounds). The “Masses” are the obvious ‘other’ people circulating and clicking.


The Doers have developed a positive brand, reputation with a steadfast, loyal following. With authenticity continually under question online, I see how Twitter is grasping, seeing the need that Facebook has accidentally stumbled upon (Stumpleupon is still out there, FYI) how a tribe does impact your vibe. The Doers are critical of themselves mostly yet avoid detractors, sociapaths, egomaniacs, etc. [if only to share sometimes as an interest not a direction nor an opinion].

Twitter is developing the ability to keep The Doers in the same circles, refining their recommendations for whom others should follow. Wouldn’t that be cool if you ended up on that few box list? They probably can cleverly guess who is more likely to have someone click on The Doer profile based on the demographic, clicks, followers of their followers.



I’d like to call the followers “A Flower”. A flower needs nourishment in order to grow into a great thing of beauty. So all my followers are now Flowers: I hope to be able to sprinkle a little sunshine on.

To understand this, do this simple exercise: find one of your favorite quotes, settle on your favorite art and send it out to 10 people whom you enjoy reading their Tweets, would like to go beyond a connection to an ENGAGEMENT and include them in the tweet.

This will land directly in their notifications category — MUCH MORE gratifying and appealing to see the numbers grow in NOTIFICATIONS on Twitter than the Private Messages {cluttered with Spam). SPAM is the negative description for annoying interruptions to your otherwise joyful cruise online. Seemingly, screaming at you, guaranteed to be annoying to you. A SPAM is a person, a post, a tweet that is self-serving only to themselves. Self-advertising as is often disposed by the Grabbits.

Viral highjinx is the new order of the day: let’s see if we can trick people to think this is a heartwarming moment that Flowers may grow, grabbed by SPAM paid for by Grabbits.  

Salutations, congratulations and support nation on Linked In

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Now where can you brag about your career?

Promote your favorite cheer, quote or motivational image where it is welcome?

Where can some of your first followers, literally strangers, were drawn to connect with each other, to cheer em on hang out?

I think you may have guessed by now, I'm talking about Linked In.

Ahem, sorry about those bright lights up stairs, above here.  I just am continuously astounded by the great things that come out of Linked In.  As with fine wine, only appreciating more gracefully each year ... ahem, drifted off to midnight passing and my new year officially here.

Salutations and congratulations Paul ~impressive!  I'm a big fan of data since "back in the day" selling clicks and at the forefront of the cloud with document management and storage.  If you ever need someone who can speak to that topic, I'd be keen from the perspective of how I had to evolve from selling printed dots made first by ink, then toner to carving down quantities, producing more relavancy and using globalization to have on hand.  Think security information from Calgary to New York, Toronto generated by London UK.  Sorry, I got carried away thinking I was writing another blog ......

Of which here I am.  Again.  Making a point.  Connecting with people is one third of the value from Linked In.  I can expand on the other things.  I just wanted to ask those questions and use an example of my own experiment of intertwining a personalized, customized message, based on the new connection (this being a VP of Data for a Fortune 500 corporation).  

If you are going to network anywhere.  Don't over think it too much.  Be the person that everyone wants to be around, will tend to remember, and even better reach out with a problem that needed solving.

Don't let me get carried away (I am all of a sudden starting to reconsider what I have said as joking in manner that I have Attention Deficit Disorder when I'm online).  When in fact, coming online is like putting a wannabe race car driver into a Porsche or Ferrarri (yes, I'd even let BMW give me a few bucks to edit out the other two and put their logo or luxury model picture here for a fee).  One of these days, someone WILL catch on and actually pay me for inserting their logo and an considering an image, dependent upon receipt of funds.  

It's a brave new world
The biggest employment bubble is spent online.  Either creating conversations, interacting, writing, blogging, artistic expression, motivation, addictions, infliction, improvement, knowledge to be had for the taking by those curious enough to reach out.  Experiment a little.  Find your voice.

Explore the many passions
Just being discovered.  A childlike curiosity and appreciation of wonder exudes from your pores.  Just remember that your message may be bang on, your audience just hasn't caught on.  It doesn't mean it won't.  It may mean change it up, a bit.

Be patient
Because anyone who is worth anything will never say they got to where they are over night.  Only unrealistic movies, which artistic communicators of dreams or drama made from fantasy, far beyond fact.

Uphold your integrity
as the greatest value you bring.  Your word, your loyalty and your honesty are emblems of who you represent.  Stay away from anyone who makes you uneasy or likes to crumble your dignity.

Be aware of wolves in sheep clothes
without gender a factor.  The behavior being the same, the approaches likely different.

Be a cheerleader
for those whom you've aligned yourself with the talented.  Be so happy for their success and raising star without worrying about hitching on it but waiting for your own.

Do not cheat on others
is much larger than a spouse.  Your friends, your family, your parents, your friends, your colleagues deserve your respect.  Do not take their ideas and make them as your own, without revealing their anonymity to guard their privacy.  

Don't withhold your wisdom
because to share expands into greater wisdom.  What did others learn from.  What did you hear murmuring of acknowledgement.  

Don't shout from the rooftops
unless a bitter, capitalizing scamster, annoying buzz to sound over the noise your reputation to have and to hold on to dearly, oblivious to whether anyone is listening, just relief from your rant you'll be.  Sometimes causing damage, if nothing at least the reputation as a whiner or perpetual complainer is what you want to be known as.

It is the soundness of posture
and clearness in vision from others  proclaim.  You can do it if you love it and are passionate about or want to learn more about and have a common refrain.  Whether that is by post, by quote or image of artistic creation expounds, be known for a goodness or a quality with honesty to build trust.

Follow the rules before you define them

Black & White Self-portrait wit glasses by Wix Photographer Juliette Jourdain

"This above ALL:  to thine own self be true."

~ William Shakespeare

 (Hamlet)

LOL, I have to chuckle.  I admit that I try a number of different online outlets or portals to connect and network.  As I continue to explore, I extrapolate a lot of mistakes being made by a similar group of people.

It would appear as though the majority of marketers think that their prospective clients are dumb or tuned out.  They think they are making the rules, when , in fact, they are breaking the rules.  I thought of a few to get started to those who reach out to prospect for others to hire you as a social media expert.

Rule No. 1 Know your audience and what they are looking for

Rule No. 2 Lead by example

Rule No. 3 Ensure your follower to follow ratio is weighted by who is following you, not the other way around.

Rule No. 4 Try to get a few online influencers in your corner.

Rule No. 5  Be your own unique voice, don't try to say what you THINK others want to hear.

Rule No. 6  Be creative, be thought provoking, be visual

Rule No. 7  Don't try to build your acclaim by 3 degrees of separation

Rule No. 8  Do NOT plagiarize others' ideas and claim them as your own.

Rule No. 9  Give credit where credit is due

Rule No. 10  Say thank you, show gratitude, share appreciation

These rules can be expanded.  I likely will.  The main idea is to get started with the idea and then let things flow and the ideas evolve.    

Rule No. 11  Test your ideas, check for traction, respond to interaction or reaction

Start at Rule No. 1 again.  Like a snowball, go through the process again, see what you can attract and build upon as you go through the steps each time.

Rule No. 12  Comment to an idea originator if something they said, you tried, and share what worked, what didn't work.

Rule No. 13  You will only build a crowd once you fade into the crowd or are enveloped within one.

Tulip:  my favorite flower

As today putters to an end, I bid adieu to 55 and resolve to coasting towards 60 now that I've crossed from the mid-point to the other side.  Thanks to one of my greatest Social Media friends, Mott, shared Conan O'Brien's birthday post on Facebook and I happened to see this morning.  How cool is that eh?    I like the idea of having "something in common with Conan O'Brien" .... and a whole list of greatest in the following company whom we keep on celebrating an April 18th birthday .... Bon Fete mes ami :o)

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April 18 Famous Birthdays (SOURCE: BIRTHDAY NINJAs)

The zodiac sign of a person born on April 18 is Aries ♈.

The following famous people celebrate their birthday on April 18th. The list is arranged in chronological order and includes celebrities like actors, actresses, models, singers, rappers and producers. Click the    after the name to explore the birth date info and know the meaning of their life path number.

The epic list contains 285 persons. Showing 1 - 20.

• 1480

  Lucrezia Borgia, Italian daughter of Pope Alexander VI (d. 1519). Life path number 8
• 1503

  Henry II of Navarre, (d. 1555). Life path number 22
• 1590

  Ahmed I, Ottoman sultan (d. 1617). Life path number 1
• 1605

  Giacomo Carissimi, Italian priest and composer (d. 1674). Life path number 7
• 1648

  Jeanne Guyon, French mystic and author (d. 1717). Life path number 5
• 1666

  Jean-Féry Rebel, French violinist and composer (d. 1747). Life path number 5
• 1740

  Sir Francis Baring, 1st Baronet, English banker and politician (d. 1810). Life path number 7
• 1759

  Jacques Widerkehr, French cellist and composer (d. 1823). Life path number 8
• 1771

  Karl Philipp, Prince of Schwarzenberg (d. 1820). Life path number 2
• 1772

  David Ricardo, English economist and politician (d. 1823). Life path number 3
• 1794

  William Debenham, English founder of Debenhams (d. 1863). Life path number 7
• 1797

  Adolphe Thiers, French historian and politician, 2nd President of France (d. 1877). Life path number 1
• 1813

  James McCune Smith, American physician and author (d. 1865). Life path number 8
• 1819

  Carlos Manuel de Céspedes, Cuban lawyer and activist (d. 1874). Life path number 5
• 1819

  Franz von Suppé, Austrian composer and conductor (d. 1895). Life path number 5
• 1838

  Paul-Émile Lecoq de Boisbaudran, French chemist and academic (d. 1912). Life path number 6
• 1857

  Clarence Darrow, American lawyer (d. 1938). Life path number 7
• 1857

  Alexander Shirvanzade, Armenian playwright and author (d. 1935). Life path number 7
• 1858

  Dhondo Keshav Karve, Indian educator and activist, Bharat Ratna Awardee (d. 1962). Life path number 8
• 1863

  Count Leopold Berchtold, Austrian-Hungarian politician and diplomat, Joint Foreign Minister of Austria-Hungary (d. 1942). Life path number 22

1863

Linton Hope, English sailor and architect (d. 1920). Life path number 22

1864

Richard Harding Davis, American journalist and author (d. 1916). Life path number 5

1874

Abd-ru-shin, German author (d. 1941). Life path number 6

1874

Ivana Brlić-Mažuranić, Croatian author and poet (d. 1938). Life path number 6

1877

Vicente Sotto, Filipino lawyer and politician (d. 1950). Life path number 9

1879

Korneli Kekelidze, Georgian philologist and scholar (d. 1962). Life path number 2

1880

Sam Crawford, American baseball player, coach, and umpire (d. 1968). Life path number 3

1882

Isaac Babalola Akinyele, Nigerian ruler (d. 1964). Life path number 5

1882

Leopold Stokowski, English conductor (d. 1977). Life path number 5

1884

Jaan Anvelt, Estonian educator and politician (d. 1937). Life path number 7

1888

Duffy Lewis, American baseball player, coach, and manager (d. 1979). Life path number 2

1889

Jessie Street, Australian activist (d. 1970). Life path number 3

1893

Violette Morris, French shot putter and discus thrower (d. 1944). Life path number 7

1896

Na Hye-sok, South Korean journalist, poet, and painter (d. 1948). Life path number 1

1897

Ardito Desio, Italian geologist and cartographer (d. 2001). Life path number 2

1897

Per-Erik Hedlund, Swedish skier (d. 1975). Life path number 2

1898

Patrick Hennessy, Irish soldier and businessman (d. 1981). Life path number 3

1901

Al Lewis, American songwriter (d. 1967). Life path number 6  

1901

László Németh, Hungarian dentist, author, and playwright (d. 1975). Life path number 6  

1902

Waldemar Hammenhög, Swedish author (d. 1972). Life path number 7  

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1902

Giuseppe Pella, Italian politician, 32nd Prime Minister of Italy (d. 1981). Life path number 7  

1904

Pigmeat Markham, American actor, singer, and dancer (d. 1981). Life path number 9  

1905

Sydney Halter, Canadian lawyer and businessman (d. 1990). Life path number 1  

1905

George H. Hitchings, American physician and pharmacologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1998). Life path number 1  

1907

Miklós Rózsa, Hungarian-American composer and conductor (d. 1995). Life path number 3  

1911

Ilario Bandini, Italian businessman and race car driver (d. 1992). Life path number 7  

1911

Maurice Goldhaber, Ukrainian-American physicist and academic (d. 2011). Life path number 7  

1914

Claire Martin, Canadian author (d. 2014). Life path number 1  

1915

Joy Davidman, American poet and author (d. 1960). Life path number 2  

1916

Carl Burgos, American illustrator (d. 1984). Life path number 3  

1916

Doug Peden, Canadian basketball player (d. 2005). Life path number 3  

1917

Ty LaForest, Canadian-American baseball player (d. 1947). Life path number 22  

1917

Frederica of Hanover (d. 1981). Life path number 22  

1918

Gabriel Axel, Danish-French actor, director, and producer (d. 2014). Life path number 5  

1918

André Bazin, French critic and theorist (d. 1958). Life path number 5  

1918

Shinobu Hashimoto, Japanese director, producer, and screenwriter. Life path number 5  

1918

Clifton Hillegass, American publisher, founded ''CliffsNotes'' (d. 2001). Life path number 5  

1918

Tony Mottola, American guitarist and composer (d. 2004). Life path number 5  

1919

Vondell Darr, American actress (d. 2012). Life path number 6  

1919

Virginia O'Brien, American actress and singer (d. 2001). Life path number 6  

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• 1920

  John F. Wiley, American football player and coach (d. 2013). Life path number 7  
• 1921

  Jean Richard, French actor and singer (d. 2001). Life path number 8  
• 1922

  Barbara Hale, American actress. Life path number 9  
• 1922

  Lord Kitchner, Trinidadian singer (d. 2000). Life path number 9  
• 1923

  Alfred Bieler, Swiss ice hockey player (d. 2013). Life path number 1  
• 1923

  Beryl Platt, Baroness Platt of Writtle, English engineer and politician (d. 2015). Life path number 1  
• 1924

  Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2005). Life path number 2  
• 1924

  Henry Hyde, American commander, lawyer, and politician (d. 2007). Life path number 2  
• 1924

  Roy Mason, English miner and politician, Secretary of State for Defence (d. 2015). Life path number 2  
• 1925

  Bob Hastings, American actor (d. 2014). Life path number 3  
• 1925

  Marcus Schmuck, Austrian mountaineer and author (d. 2005). Life path number 3  
• 1926

  Doug Insole, English cricketer. Life path number 22  
• 1926

  Günter Meisner, German actor (d. 1994). Life path number 22  
• 1927

  Samuel P. Huntington, American political scientist, author, and academic (d. 2008). Life path number 5  
• 1927

  Tadeusz Mazowiecki, Polish journalist and politician, Prime Minister of Poland (d. 2013). Life path number 5  
• 1927

  Charles Pasqua, French businessman and politician, French Minister of the Interior (d. 2015). Life path number 5  
• 1928

  Karl Josef Becker, German cardinal and theologian (d. 2015). Life path number 6  
• 1928

  Otto Piene, German sculptor and academic (d. 2014). Life path number 6  
• 1929

  Peter Hordern, English soldier and politician. Life path number 7  
• 1930

  Clive Revill, New Zealand-English actor and singer. Life path number 8  

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• 1931

  Bill Miles, American director and producer (d. 2013). Life path number 9  
• 1934

  James Drury, American actor. Life path number 3  
• 1934

  George Shirley, American tenor and educator. Life path number 3  
• 1935

  Jerry Dexter, American voice actor (d. 2013). Life path number 22  
• 1935

  Costas Ferris, Egyptian-Greek actor, director, producer, and screenwriter. Life path number 22  
• 1936

  Roger Graef, American-English criminologist, director, and producer. Life path number 5  
• 1936

  Vladimir Hütt, Estonian physicist and philosopher (d. 1997). Life path number 5  
• 1936

  Tommy Ivo, American actor and race car driver. Life path number 5  
• 1937

  Jan Kaplický, Czech architect, designed the Selfridges Building (d. 2009). Life path number 6  
• 1937

  Tatyana Shchelkanova, Russian long jumper and heptathlete (d. 2011). Life path number 6  
• 1937

  Teddy Taylor, Scottish journalist and politician, Shadow Secretary of State for Scotland. Life path number 6  
• 1939

  Thomas J. Moyer, American lawyer and judge (d. 2010). Life path number 8  
• 1940

  Joseph L. Goldstein, American biochemist and geneticist, Nobel Prize laureate. Life path number 9  
• 1940

  Jaak Lipso, Estonian basketball player and coach. Life path number 9  
• 1940

  Mike Vickers, English guitarist, saxophonist, and songwriter (Manfred Mann and The Manfreds). Life path number 9  
• 1941

  Michael D. Higgins, Irish sociologist and politician, 9th President of Ireland. Life path number 1  
• 1942

  Michael Beloff, English lawyer and academic. Life path number 2  
• 1942

  Steve Blass, American baseball player and sportscaster. Life path number 2  
• 1942

  Robert Christgau, American journalist and critic. Life path number 2  
• 1942

  Jochen Rindt, German-Austrian race car driver (d. 1970). Life path number 2  

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• 1943

  Zeki Alasya, Turkish actor and director (d. 2015). Life path number 3  
• 1944

  Frances D'Souza, Baroness D'Souza, English academic and politician. Life path number 22  
• 1944

  Robert Hanssen, American FBI agent and spy. Life path number 22  
• 1944

  Philip Jackson, Scottish sculptor and photographer. Life path number 22  
• 1945

  Bernard Arcand, Canadian anthropologist and author (d. 2009). Life path number 5  
• 1945

  Richard Bausch, American author and academic. Life path number 5  
• 1945

  Robert Bausch, American author and academic. Life path number 5  
• 1945

  Margaret Hassan, Irish-Iraqi aid worker (d. 2004). Life path number 5  
• 1946

  Jean-François Balmer, Swiss actor. Life path number 6  
• 1946

  Irene Fernandez, Malaysian activist (d. 2014). Life path number 6  
• 1946

  Hayley Mills, English actress and singer. Life path number 6  
• 1946

  Skip Spence, Canadian-American singer-songwriter, drummer and guitarist (Jefferson Airplane and Moby Grape) (d. 1999). Life path number 6  
• 1947

  Kathy Acker, American author and poet (d. 1997). Life path number 7  
• 1947

  Moses Blah, Liberian general and politician, 23rd President of Liberia (d. 2013). Life path number 7  
• 1947

  Dorothy Lyman, American actress, director, and producer. Life path number 7  
• 1947

  Herbert Mullin, American serial killer. Life path number 7  
• 1947

  Cindy Pickett, American actress. Life path number 7  
• 1947

  Greg Quill, Australian-Canadian singer-songwriter and journalist (d. 2013). Life path number 7  
• 1947

  Jerzy Stuhr, Polish actor, director, and screenwriter. Life path number 7  
• 1947

  James Woods, American actor and producer. Life path number 7  

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• 1948

  Régis Wargnier, French director, producer, and screenwriter. Life path number 8  
• 1949

  Geoff Bodine, American race car driver. Life path number 9  
• 1950

  Paul Callery, Australian footballer. Life path number 1  
• 1950

  Tina Chow, American model and jewelry designer (d. 1992). Life path number 1  
• 1950

  Kenny Ortega, American director, producer, and choreographer. Life path number 1  
• 1950

  Grigory Sokolov, Russian pianist and composer. Life path number 1  
• 1951

  Ricardo Fortaleza, Australian-Filipino boxer and coach. Life path number 2  
• 1951

  Pierre Pettigrew, Canadian businessman and politician, 5th Canadian Minister of Foreign Affairs. Life path number 2  
• 1953

  Rick Moranis, Canadian-American actor, singer, and screenwriter. Life path number 22  
• 1954

  Robert Greenberg, American pianist and composer. Life path number 5  
• 1956

  Eric Roberts, American actor. Life path number 7  
• 1956

  Melody Thomas Scott, American actress. Life path number 7  
• 1957

  Ian Campbell, Australian jumper. Life path number 8  
• 1957

  Anna Kathryn Holbrook, American actress and educator. Life path number 8  
• 1958

  Malcolm Marshall, Barbadian cricketer and coach (d. 1999). Life path number 9  
• 1958

  Karen Mayo-Chandler, English actress and model (d. 2006). Life path number 9  
• 1958

  Thomas Simaku, Albanian-English composer. Life path number 9  
• 1958

  Tarmo Teder, Estonian poet and critic. Life path number 9  
• 1959

  Susan Faludi, American journalist and author. Life path number 1  
• 1959

  Frank Mulholland, Scottish lawyer and politician, Solicitor General for Scotland. Life path number 1  

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