AMPLIFY GOOD - Brittlestar’s Weekly Newsletter - Issue #34
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I learned something yesterday.
That’s not really new. I learn something pretty much everyday. It’s fun and one of the joys of not being that smart.
As you may know, my wife (Shannon) and I do a live stream every Friday at 9:30AM ET called The Morning Show Thing. We’ve been doing the show for five years.
Despite the fact that we’ve built a loyal community (who actually thank sponsors!!), the live stream doesn’t get much love from Facebook (it’s also on Twitter and YouTube). Of my 250K followers, it only gets shown to about 20,000, if we’re lucky. The rest of my followers aren’t even aware we do it.
Anyway… I’m not here to gripe about Facebook. That’s too easy.
My point is, the show is about the viewers. It’s all about the community supporting each other and making each other feel good.
This past week’s show was thrown into turmoil when Shannon found out about 20 minutes beforehand that she had to be elsewhere. Shannon presses a lot of the buttons for the show, plus she’s generally more entertaining than I am, so I decided I needed a guest co-host. I put the call out on Twitter and thankfully Eric Garland stepped into the chaos.
Eric is an Intelligence Analyst and prominent US political pundit, but here he was on our silly little live stream reading out the names of people who had watched and commented on the previous week’s show and commenting on pictures of people painting and doing various hobbies.
Afterwards, I thanked Eric for his time and for being such a good sport. He said something to me that really stuck and I thought I should share it with you. He said…
“These technologies can be used very cynically, or they can be used to share paintings. I like the latter!”
He’s right.
Social Media has given a microphone to all of us.
If you yell into it, it makes your yell louder.
But you don’t have to yell all the time. You can also use that microphone to say ‘Hey! Look at this great thing/good deed!’
You can use that microphone to amplify good.
I’m going to try to do more of that.
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Author using microphone to amplify Hard Hearted Hannah