MiniBuk

The Gift of a MiniBük (Foreword by Kathy and David Seid)

 MiniBük is starting 2012 with a team approach to our blog. The last 18 months have underscored the importance of helping our customers produce the highest quality MiniBük in order to realize the greatest degree of success.

We will have guest experts sharing their vision for quality in cover design, text layout, editing and marketing strategy (to name a few). We will feature MiniBük authors to share their successes, an excerpt from their MiniBük, marketing strategies that were effective for them, and other tips or insights. 

It's all about you. . .the author. Our goal is to share relevant information you can use to make progress in your efforts, and to enlighten you about the many ways to share your message, by getting it into the hands of many, in the most effective, efficient way possible.

So with this first guest post from MiniBük author and editor, Mary L. Holden, we introduce team blogging.

Cheers to 2012 and to your MiniBük success!

Kathy and David Seid

"Social Media"

In this, my first blog post ever, I deliver to you my paean of passion regarding the role of the MiniBük in our world today.

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Words are what language is constructed from. Without words it would be difficult, no impossible, to be "social". There would be too many misunderstandings. Too much conflict.

Language evolved to facilitate "sociability". Education, skill and training in language is required for people to associate concepts with words (without grasping the meaning behind words, words are merely sounds). Once you have the ability to communicate concepts, you can be social. This is what separates man from animal. Language understood is "content", communication. Spoken language is the original medium of social discourse, or "social media".

The limitation of language was that there was no efficient way for people to record and redistribute (share) compilations of good and useful concepts until writing was born in the "Cradle of Civilization" over 4,000 years ago. And since then, all manner of interesting media have evolved in a profusion of sharing techniques for words today:

• Sound: Telephone, radio, recordings, etc.
• Film/Video (sound+images): Cinema, television, YouTube, etc.
• Text: Newspapers, books, email, twitter, facebook, etc.