Greetings! Remember me? I’m the blogger here and I’ve been seriously absent of late. I couldn’t let today pass without publishing a post though because today marks the anniversary of my first post as a blogger six years ago today.

I was having an interesting conversation with my boss a number of days ago. We were discussing the current state of our business and where we saw things heading in 2010. We discussed some of the needs of the business and what we each enjoyed.

My boss said something to me that at first thought really made me bristle with frustration, but the more I thought about it the more I realized it was probably a fairly accurate statement. He said that I didn’t appear as someone who wanted to be an expert at something. He challenged that he didn’t see me having the motivation to dig into a topic or issue and figure out everything there was to know about it.

I bristled initially because I think I do enjoy pursuing answers to problems and will work very hard to be fix the problem for someone if they ask for my help. The more we talked and the more I thought about what was said, I came to the conclusion he’s right.

I’m no expert.

What I am is someone that likes to know a lot about a variety of topics so that I can be as helpful to people as I possibly can on a wide variety of issues and questions. Even though I may not want to be an expert, I do want to have more than just an average level of knowledge about these topics. I enjoy being perceived as someone who is helpful and will probably know the answer to many questions.

I related my motivation to the lack of interest I have (at least presently) to pursue an advanced degree in the form of a Masters or Doctorate certification. I’d be more interested in going back to college for another bachelor’s degree in something new.

I’ve got plenty of friends that I would consider experts in their field. I encourage them to continue being that resource to people. I’ll hang back here and continue to be as helpful as possible to people whenever possible and connect them to the experts whenever it’s needed.

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Tonight the group met again on the first Monday of the year at The Strange Brew Coffee House (@TheStrangeBrew) on the far south side of Indianapolis in Greenwood, IN. For getting the news out late and spreading the word about meeting at a new location, I think we had a good turn out.

Those in attendance were Noah Coffey, Aaron Sudduth, Andrew Angle, James Paden, Patric Welch and Doug Theis. I’m proud to call of these guys friends and love having them in my network of social media and technology specialists here in Indianapolis.

If you’re on the south side or just love technology and feel like driving, be sure and join us next time. We plan on meeting the first Monday of every month right back at The Strange Brew at 6:30pm.

As Doug Theis reminded us in the video, the Rainmaker’s Techmaker’s meeting will be taking place Tuesday night, January 5th at 5:30pm at the downtown location for Scotty’s Brewhouse.

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Are you a Walmart shopper or a Target shopper? If you’re looking for an opportunity to start off 2010 with some good food, new and old friends and the chance to argue a bit amongst yourselves, have I got the event for you! It’s time for a little retail grudge match smackdown.

Yesterday I had the privilege to meet a guy named Ricky Lee Potts (@rickyleepotts) at #Indiana’s Inaugural Social Media Summit at Scotty’s Brewhouse (@brewhouse).

This Monday night, January 4th 2010, he’s hosting a little Tweet-Up at Scotty’s Brewhouse on the north side to discuss the pros and cons of Walmart vs. Target. Here’s what Ricky has to say about the event.

Yes, folks who are attending must RSVP as I have a limited number of seats. I can only fit 18 folks.  The concept actually started with me simply tweeting and speaking on Walmart every time that I went there. I would check in on foursquare, comment on Twitter and Facebook, and sometimes even mention it in my blog. From that a lot of folks began getting interested in my addiction to Walmart and every time I mention it as the best store on the planet or even if I am simply there folks talk. They began talking about how Walmart sucks and Target is better, giving me reason after reason why Target was better. Each, of course, I had a comment back as to why in fact Walmart is better. I got the idea to just gather these individuals, if applicable, together and talk about these in a centralized setting. So, introducing the first concept based Tweet-Up.

It’s not quite a debate about national healthcare, but it’s sure to be fun and a chance for you to be real-world social with your social network friends.

Just RSVP by sending a tweet to Ricky on twitter @RickyLeePotts.

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The boy was sharing his thoughts on art and what’s art and what’s not. The conversation eventually led to discussing communication. He was talking about a friend of his that’s now in college and has a professor that would always use really big words in class. I’m not sure if these words were considered part of the knowledge and learning they were supposed to be getting, but the kid didn’t appreciate the professor using all these words that the other students didn’t know.

Yeah, I’d hate for your intelligence to actually be challenged and stretched while you’re in college. I guess what our educationally challenged society needs is for all teachers and professors to not speak or expect any higher level of thought than the students they’re teaching in their classrooms.

I’m sure that will be the thing that really helps us all.

Can anyone tell me the relationship between the image and my post?

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