Be Great

Is this too much to ask?

I met today with a good friend, Trefor Munn-Venn (@TreforMV) of www.SocialCatalyst.ca (Check them out).  Anyways, we had a fun discussion and without spoiling the details of it the comment, “Be Great” came up.

Be great.  Think about that.  What can’t be accomplished, achieved and realized when people endeavour to, “Be Great!”

Be great in your interactions.  Be great with how you interact with people.  Be great with the information you share.

I was reading some posts on both Facebook and Twitter later on and I noticed that it doesn’t take very long to read a post or see an image that is just the opposite of being great.  What was also interesting to me is that there are people who will call out the negative posters and the like by being more negative.  Then I thought, “I’m guilty of doing that.”  There have been times when I just haven’t been as great as I should be.

So, I threw out a challenge on Twitter…

Be Great

I asked some friends to share the challenge and people chose to #BeGreat and help out.  I followed up the first challenge with another twist…

Acknowledge the #BeGreat of others

This whole thing took off because of some AMAZING people and their desire to see something better.

What does this have to do with “Walking the Social Media Beat?” Everything.  Make sure that when you are interacting in the social space you are being great, promoting great information and ignoring the negative.  Sure, sometimes you may not be able ignore the negative, but we can all rise up and challenge people to be positive.

Is this a little bit “looking through rose-coloured glasses?” Maybe, but just think of how incredible the social space could be if the only things we read, looked at and heard were just simply, great!

Take a look at #begreat on Twitter.  What do you think?  Let me know.