Hi everybody,
You have made me really happy – because all You readers of this post have followed me during today`s migration of my blog from blogspot to WordPress and are reading now my first post in this new wonderful blog tool.
Thanks for Your faithful trust. I promise I will never let You down as long as this blog continues, means until shortly before eternity.
Now to the subject of today`s post. Let me give You some background information first. Most of You know already that I have started to actively participate and appear in the social media since more or less 15 years ago.
During the first 10 years this was mainly related to looking up information and posting own contents in linkedin. About 5 years ago I started to try out Instagram for all kinds of personal and professional purposes and right from the scratch I found it extremely easy and beautiful to use.
In fact it has made me a lot of fun to develop my creative skills and I have made good progress in getting more and more familiar with it and developping some more advanced user skills.
During the Covid-19 crisis, confined at home, I decided to try out blogging and I had a very easy and quick start with my own blog in blogspot, which without any doubts is the simplest tool available still.
I became so fancy with it that I wrote daily posts during almost 3 months before I started to feel tired a little bit and slowed it down to 2-3 post per month.
And then – not least because of lots of high priority job related activities including lots of international business travels – I pulled the handbrake and deserted my blog for almost 2,5 years.
But when I stopped writing posts I already had made large learning in handling the blog and creation of my posts.
My next adventure was making very short bloody nose experience with my own Youtube channel “2 minutes with Klaus”.
Such an enterprise requires plenty of technical experience and the utilisation of professional video equipment. At least I was open enough to myself to state that I was not prepared at all for this and stopped it again immediately.
Not in the sense, that I surrendered forever. No, I just came to the conclusion, that a totally different approach for setting up a Youtube channel would be necessary.
My intention was clearly to leave this for another attempt – this time better prepared and equipped – for the future. And – it`s not a secret – time for it will come quite soon.
Because it fits nicely into my general entrepreneurial and marketing concept. I´d guess to present myself back again to You with an own Youtube channel until in the latest end of this year
But since a couple of years I have received more and more signal from the world around me, wherever I move, that in a certain sence I have started to become “famous”, means that more and more people know – and thanks God – the vast majority of them apparently like me.
It`s always crazy, wonderful and exciting when people, which I personally did never meet yet, approach me at airport and events and say “hey I know You, You are Klaus, the guy in linkedin that I follow”.
Many times I receive wonderful, lovely compliments and more often people want to take a picture with me. I admit frankly that this makes me happy.
Nothing better than to make friends with nice, good people and exchange personal & professional experiences with them. I would call this the beauty of becoming famous.
But there is also a burden coming along with becoming famous. If Your network of friends and contacts exceeds a certain number, You loose controll very easily.
Meeting with people can become tricky because You – even in the case of people You recognize and remember – can`t recall their names and their personal & professional background.
Then it feels like walking on soft eggs.
Another important subject related to the growth of Your network and popularity is related to what I consider as “bad apples in the fruit basket”.
I do not allow any of my contacts to publish aggressive, unfair, racist or politically extremist statements and – for sure – nobody passes my network entry filter if he is suspicious of fraud, illegal behaviour or mental illness.
Such people have no real chance to get permission as members to my network. On the inlet side of my network this is just a question of my quite good “smell” for unwanted contacts.
And if contacts of my network show not acceptable behaviour through posts or comments on posts, they are beeing immediately deleted and blocked.
For me this is clearly a pure question of “network hygiene” and consequential behaviour.
All just mentionned has NOTHING to do with my almost unlimited acceptation of different opinions and my appreciation for constructive conflicts. I consider myself liberal to my bones.
Well – all this said, the global community of people which are connected to me has really become numerous and will massively increase now during the upcoming months due to my own entrepreneurial and business activities.
I am terribly proud on my wonderful network of fine contacts, many of them decision takers on C-Level, owners of important businesses, important scientists and researchers and developpers of technologies, artists, athletes, all of them very nice people and excellent professionals, on practically all continents.
What has helped me enormously during all these long years since having started to be active in social media and to construct my nice network were countless national and international travels allover South America, Mexico, subSahara Africa, Europe, Asia and Australia, which made it very easy for me to collect plenty of new good contacts and to establish countless friendships with wonderful people everywhere I went.
And also during all these years I have massively participated – in great part of these actively as exhibitor, speaker, panelist, presenter – in all kinds of closed and public events allover the world.
But – damned shit, why are so many of these “buts” always existing – there is another challenge which is augmenting directly proportional to the highly appreciated groth of my network community.
More and more good friends and contacts – with the best and most noble intentions of this world – try in the most friendly ways You can imagine to have a chat with me, to invite me to a coffee or for luch resp. for dinner or want to share and discuss ideas, projects and other information with me.
And I frankly admit that I am still on the learning curve with respect to the question, how to deal in an appropriate, friendly, professional way with all these contact attempts without hurting or frustrating people but successfully defending my own agenda and preferences.
For sure I want to be polite to everybody, but I finally need to protect myself against communication and information overload and unwanted distraction from my self-defined priorities.
Now imagine really famous people like all the big artists, business leaders, politicians and so on. I admit, I feel very happy to be only a little bit famous in my small world compared all these poor rich people.
I clearly prefer to be able to conduct a normal life and establish real authentic – good and bad – relationships. Not to have – f.e. financial – problems seems to be a bigger problem than my own problems normally become.
You if You feel bad, maybe it could be of help for You to just think about people who feel worse.
Congrats to all who have made it together with me until the end of my first post in my new blog. From now on I will return to a higher – maybe weekly? – post activity here.
I`ll lkeep it in the sence of the beautiful old english saying “let`s cross the bridge when we get there”.
Thanks for Your attendance. Hope this sharing of some of my recent own experiences was interesting, maybe even a little bit helpful, for You and You enjoyed it.
I´d really love if You decided to give all of us openly Your feedback and – if necessary – critics to this post and blog and I would also appreciate highly if You commented on Your own experiences, learnings and tips about the beauty and the burden of becoming famous.
Here comes a music video fitting nicely to the subject of this post:
Big Time Rush – Famous (Official Video) (youtube.com)
By the way – from today on – I will continue writing all my posts in the english language “master version”, but I will always repost these here in portuguese language from now on.
My technical support team is already preparing na upgraded version of this blog, where each reader com individually select in which language he prefers to read all new posts.
And – last not least – all “historical” posts have been carried over to this new platform and can be read further on by whoever is interested in this.
See You next week! Have fun! Enjoy the weekend!
