If you’ve known me throughout my career, you may be familiar with the 80/20/0 philosophy regarding social media posts that I share as a simple template for clients who want to get started in digital marketing to keep in mind:
- 80% human posts lifting up ideas and people that have nothing to do with your work
- 20% work related and promotional
- 0% politics
Following my social feeds lately, you can plainly see I’ve tossed that long-time, steady practice right out for my own personal use. I’d even go so far as to say my personal ratio right now is 80% politics, 20% work, if I had to guess. I wanted to talk for a minute about why I am (temporarily, I truly hope) highly focused on politics and current events.
Without a diverse, intelligent, empathetic, knowledgeable society where we care about and lift up our fellow humans, we are all in trouble – globally. Borders only exist in the minds of humans. They are a construct. A useful construct for shaping smaller, more tribal societies around common values and economic goals, to be sure, but a construct nonetheless. Everything we do impacts the world. We share one planet. In recent weeks, political shifts in the US and the UK (but especially the US) have led to a more restricted vision of society. If these shifts stopped at economics, I would not be so vocal, however; these shifts are putting real human lives here and abroad in peril.
So I ask that if you follow me on social, bear with me. I feel it is important to share my work knowledge with you, but it will continue to be peppered with a heavy dose of bearing witness to the events unfolding. This is a monumental time in our history, and for me it would be morally wrong to turn a blind eye to it and conduct 100% “business as usual.” I say this in a truly non-partisan way, as well: no matter your political leanings, taking care of our fellow humans seems like a universal value we all must share.