My own communications are tuned to my knowledge of various parties' interests and situations. This kind of selective selling cannot be accomplished by usual commercial cookie-cutter marketing. I know, it doesn't help other people make a living on commissions.
Monday, January 20, 2014
More strategic planning, and some of it needs to be in plain sight
I want to recap the upcoming work that visitors will
see, along with some behind-the-scenes stuff.
I’ll be processing any tweaking of proofs of my
DADTIII book, which I now expect to appear on e-commerce sites in a few
weeks
.
In the meantime, I am posting some critical detailed
footnotes about some specific episodes in my life on my new “Do Ask, Do Tell
Notes” site, and it will go into a few items with a degree of candor I have not
used before.
On the new medias blog, I’ll be providing some
summaries of media activity in some specific areas (like DADT itself, the
marriage issue, censorship and liability issues on the Internet, and
infrastructure security).
I have a manuscript of a novel and of at least three
feature screenplays that I think are workable.
After finishing all work on the DADTIII
book, I expect to set up a formal review and 3rdparty edit of
the novel in order to get it submitted.
Part of the review consists of looking at all my older manuscripts back
into the 1980’s (as well as “The Proles” from my Army days in 1969) and showing
the changes in plot threads, and the ways in which the stories overlap (almost
as if part of a soap opera). I
don’t have a “Sami” but I do have
something like a “Will and Sonny” although the circumstances are very different
than in thre NC Soap “Days of our Lives”.
I have put up most of music online “piecemeal”, but
I would like to set up an effort to record the 1962-1974 “Third Sonata” (it was
done crudely on DAT tape in 1991). That will require Apple and Sibelius
sofeware upgrades and the help of
others.
I also will make an informal documentary video,
outlining the “book” I would write if I were to start over and not add on to a
series.
All of this is a lot of work. The nature of the material requires open
(“everyone”) mode of publication of much material (like the blogs and Twitter
feed). Whitelists are effective in
reaching a known significant audience, but it is not sufficient to attract new
friend and potential “consumers”. Speaking
out on issues requires that my real
identity be known and open to some generic degree (as Facebook and many other
sites now require anyway), even if some would say that identification (as
opposed to anonymity) could increase security risks. You cannot be effective as a victim or as
“Mr. Nobody” (iike the movie); people have to know you (Oh, like Donnie Darko).
There is, of course, a lot of communication that is
private and more specific as to some possible sensitivities, of a business
nature or involving specific other parties. These remain out of sight and are
not posted to “whitelists” at all.
My own communications are tuned to my knowledge of various parties' interests and situations. This kind of selective selling cannot be accomplished by usual commercial cookie-cutter marketing. I know, it doesn't help other people make a living on commissions.
My own communications are tuned to my knowledge of various parties' interests and situations. This kind of selective selling cannot be accomplished by usual commercial cookie-cutter marketing. I know, it doesn't help other people make a living on commissions.
Again, there is something to self-instantiation –
becoming one’s own “java constructor” – without experiencing the risks of
taking care of others in the meantime, an activity that in a real world is not
always and should not necessarily derive from the “Axiom of Choice”. I see some issues coming that will probably
compel more attention from me than I have been giving them (or others) in the
past three years, since my mother’s passing. But I cannot be effective in
person (let alone in a “relationship”) without doing my homework (“les
devoirs”, or “la terea” or “deberes”) first, and some of it is in public more,
like at a Wifi café.
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