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I know I'm writing this about six days late -- but here goes:

On Monday I attended the Third Monday Meetup.

We were disussing the good, the bad and the ugly of social media. Here are some topics that came up:

- Echo chamber effect
- You never run out of ink on the Internet (yes, but can you run out of ideas?)
- How does one person have enough attention for everything?
- Dialogue vs. conversation
- The Long Tail
- Negative posts and the power of Google
- Bloggers and stats
- The immediacy of blogs
- PR pitching to blogs
- How to establish credibility
- Hot and cold mediums (Teresa, you should have been there!)
- Living and dying as the only two options - false dichotomy?
- Shelagh Rogers (yay!)
- Media literacy
- Did you know it only takes 5000 copies sold for a book to be on the best seller's list?
- Classic PR mantra: "We're first!"
- The pros and cons of Second Life

Quite a good night full of discussion, good points and laughter.

Can't wait for the next one!