Micheal Savoie

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So I was doing my morning socializing on Twitter when I saw a Tweet from my friend in Israel. Her friend Mish was being recalled into the Isaeli Defense Force (IDF) because of the massive violence going on between the Hamas Controlled Palestinians and Israel.

Trouble is, Mish is in an Isolation Ward of a hospital awaiting her bone marrow graft to take hold. Leaving that room would kill her.

Luckily, the hospital that Mish is in is far enough away from the Rocket Launchers for the Palestinians that she is safe for now.

Prayer From Around The World.
The importance of having friendships around the globe is to be able to lean on them when you are having tough times. Sometimes people need words of encouragement, some tips to help them get through the situation or a prayer for intervention from the Big Guy. It is through this relationship building that we have the ability to interact with the people who may be praying for us when we need it most!

My friend Rachel Rofe told me about this movie and now I have to go out and rent it. After watching the preview, I can see the power of paying it forward.

So if you are looking to make a difference in your own life, take a few minutes and make a difference in someone else’s life first!

The tweet came at 9:11PM (strange that it came at that exact time) from John Reese, a guy I know only through the Internet, although I worked for many years with one of his webmasters. But John is one of those quiet guys who does not get overly verbose on twitter, although his personality does tend to show when he gets on a roll.

His tweet was immediately gut wrenching and curiosity inspiring. I went to the website that he had linked to, and they really did not say a whole lot. So I went to TwitScoop.com and immediately I saw the tag cloud with the words Continental, Crashed, DIA, Denver, Airplane all getting bigger and bigger.

I never realized it until today that twitscoop’s word cloud updates in real time. It was so odd to watch the words struggle to get bigger and then grow again. I started to drill down into the tweets, and found people who were just repeating what other people told them, or what they got from the news.

I saw a tweet from someone saying that they were listening to police and fire department scanners on a website. I went there to find a treasure trove of first hand information from the boots on the scene!

So obviously, the information would end up coming out here. I watched that site for the next hour and was amazed at how the information coalesced into a complete story right before my eyes (they posted transcripts every few minutes of the most important points on the timeline right on the site as I listened to the police and firemen talking in realtime). Think about the implications of being able to report on a story as it happens, actually getting the information out to the people who were waiting for more information on twitter.

I saw another tweet on the TwitScoop.com page that caught my attention. A young lady was talking about the facts of the crash being hard to discern based on the sources of information. Her name was Nora Burns and went to her twitter page to find out what else she had tweeted about the crash to see where she had been getting her information.

When I arrived on her page, I was immediately struck by her profile, which told the world that she was a professional speaker. Since I am a speaker myself, that immediately sent my mouse to the follow button. I had to keep up with her, since she does what I do, and it is very good to network with other speakers.

Next thing you know we are discussing social networks and the different types of people and how they each use the social networks differently. Within a couple of hours of the announcement by John Reese, I had a new friend and contact. I even thought that there might be a chance that she could speak at one of my workshops on Social Network Effects on business and advertising.

It is really exciting to know that by paying attention to one person who I admire, I was able to find a new person to interact with that could someday teach my clients about the way people with different learning styles and personality types will take to different social networks.

I hope the people from the Continental Flight 1404 are alright…