Quiver & Quill

I attended to the Social Media Breakfast today in Boston. My favorite part of the breakfast was tagging people who attended. Here’s how it worked: Everyone received little sticky pieces of paper when they signed in. On the sticky paper, you wrote a descriptive word or phrase, a tag, and you affix it to people you meet.
I was tagged with: “making connections”, “blog group”, and “pr guru”. And I tagged other people “firefly”, “chipper”, “video maven”, and “blog group”. Tagging is naming, and there is power in naming as there is power in language. I like what Franz Fanon says,”I ascribe a basic importance to the phenomenon of language. To speak means to be in a position to use a certain syntax, to grasp the morphology of this or that language, but it means above all to assume a culture, to support the weight of a civilization.”

The act of tagging at Social Media Breakfast both defined relationships and people. The power to name is the power to give meaning.

And that was better than the eggs and sausage..

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