The concept of ambient ties fascinates me and it became all apparent this last weekend. My wife and I were invited down the coast to a friend’s seaside cottage for the weekend. Our friend used to work and live in the small coastal town where the cottage is but has since moved to the city. This was her first time back in about 5 months and we shared the experience of returning with her.
I’ll put my social media hat on for a second and then I’ll get back to the weekend story. When my wife and I first moved to the city we live in now eight months ago we knew only a couple of people. I struck up a local Twitter network rather fast as the city of Melbourne I found opened its arms up to me and made me feel right at home both on and offline. After being here for only a month though I needed to go and visit the dentist. I asked my Twitter network if there was someone in my area who they could recommend. @emilyfreeman came to my rescue and let me know her dentist was great and really professional. Turned out she was right and my wife also went there soon afterwards. I had never met Emily before yet I knew some of the people who followed her on Twitter who I trusted.