Jul/093
SMS on the move: the challenge of getting this blog off the ground
How on earth will we build up a following, a readership, an audience?
That’s what I’m wondering.
On the one hand, there’s this extraordinary “event”, SMS, which already has a personality – a rich, textured, tuneful history…
Years of remarkable effort & successes.
SMS has transformed lives.
One of my wife’s friends contacted me from London to say:
“How do you know Bob Creech? My son was at SMS for 5 years. It was wonderful.”
I only began hearing stories about SMS recently. The stories grabbed my imagination & influenced me. The more I hear, the more I feel open-mouthed about what been achieved over the years.
Then there’s this blog.
A new kid on the block. Hardly anyone over 35 in Ireland knows what a blog is. (OK, I exaggerate.) But I bet almost all the kids who come to SMS this year know about Bebo… I bet they use the internet a lot.
So this format, this platform, is tuned into the world of the future.
Hopefully, if we do it well, we’ll have plenty of older people coming here because it’s going to be interesting.
There won’t be all that much stuff about SMS in traditional media (newspapers, TV, radio): there’ll be plenty here.
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22:40 on July 12th, 2009
My thoughts exactly – the children and younger adults who take part in SMS every year are very familiar with blogging, Twitter and Facebook – this is their media in the same way that TV is the media of our generation. Paul, you and I are exceptions in that we are familiar and comfortable with expressing ourselves in this media. The vast majority of our peers are cyber-illiterate in these matters.
I was 8 years old when I saw my first television programme – it was at the house of a grand-aunt of mine who had one of the few TVs (black and white of course) in the vicinity. Image that! The extraordinary thing is that I make my living from using the new technologies!
16:45 on July 13th, 2009
Hi all, best of luck with the blog.. the more that know about SMS the better. I think this is a great way to show off exactly what SMS does and also update parents who cannot travel with their children on what is happening throughout the course.. See you all on Monday for registration….
23:25 on July 13th, 2009
Marie,
Thank you very much for those encouraging words. We’ll do our best to open up SMS to the wider world…