‘Twas the end of recession… - December 25th, 2009

‘Twas the end of recession,

or at least so we hoped

our 401ks empty, jobs lost,

but we coped

When I logged of Facebook

and Ma closed her apps

we then settled down text-less,

for an overdue nap

Then out on the internet,

there arose such a meme

our cell phones were buzzing,

we turned on our screens

Chris Brogan was preaching,

the end of all print

cancel the paper,

switch to EVDO with Sprint

And Guy Kawasaki,

pronounced with much glee

“Excellence is outdated,

why just look at me!”

Turn to your networks

yeah, even LinkedIN

Community’s waiting,

are you hooked up with Ning?

Search through your tweedecks

for those postings that rave

About the world’s future

(about… Google Wave)

There are dozens of webinars

gurus promise to offer!

“Top ten” ways to increase

all the bucks in our coffers

The fifty top lists

Of the one hundred ways

on building (no effort)

that fan page that pays

So we sat down to reading

or, at least then, retweeting

the lessons we learned

that seemed worth repeating

Social media’s the answer

To find colleagues and friends

And to sell our junk faster

in two thousand and ten.