I think Social Search and Social Media works and my attendance at a concert tonight at The Cutting Room on West 24th Street happened purely because someone invited me on Facebook – I looked at the invitation, liked her music, and attended.

I wasn’t disappointed – I had a great time and Nikki Shannon and her band played very well - and I got to meet her and speak for a couple of minutes.  I was in a room with total strangers – there wasn’t anyone that I knew – but I felt I was still “invited” and it turns out the PR Person is one of my Facebook friends.

So … Social Media Works – it really does – the problem might be – can you get enough people to see and interact with the content – any content?

But I would not have come had I not liked her music – so it’s all about “realness” and Art.

While visual art, painting, and music are both similar and different, one thing speaks to soul, genuineness – and she has it – I could feel it.

Why I decided to listen, why I opened up, maybe it was the power of Social Media – it can do that – if people want to listen, want to see, want to listen.

Maybe we’re Early Adopters of Social Media, or I am, anyway – and there’s a good post about it in Social Media Today

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While the increasing mainstream coverage of tools like Facebook and MySpace may be a sign that we’re moving beyond the introduction stage and into the growth stage of social media tools, from my perspective we’re still at a point in social media when everyone is learning. That’s especially true in public relations. PR has been around for a long time; social media has been around for just a few years.  I think we’re early in the lifecycle.

We have a bunch of new tools to experiment with; I think it’s up to us – the early adopters – to work out which ones are useful and how to use them.”