THE 7 DAY PERISCOPE CHALLENGE

THE 7 DAY PERISCOPE CHALLENGE

THE 7 DAY PERISCOPE CHALLENGE A Guest Blog By Paul Thomson     A little over a week ago, I decided to start a Periscope challenge in that I would scope every day for 7 consecutive days. With absolutely no experience using Periscope before, I really wanted to try it out! I’d never dabbled in live streaming before last week, and it’s not something I’d ever giving much thought. There was a moment recently that really tweaked my interest, and started the ball rolling. I happened to stumble across a Facebook Live stream from the man himself, Mark Zuckerberg. Watching Mark hanging out on Facebook Live, I was completely fascinated, and that’s exactly what got the ball rolling for me… Now, my Facebook profile is traditionally family & friends, they know me & see me all the time, so I didn’t feel like it would be useful for me to experiment with live streaming on that platform. On the other hand, Twitter is my key to the world. I am very lucky to have so many amazing connections on Twitter, reaching every corner of the globe! I’m truly grateful to have a really great bunch of engaged followers. For this reason, I decided to choose Periscope as my weapon of choice in my crazy social media experiment. You can find my Periscope profile at: www.periscope.tv/ThomsonAus. So, here’s the top 3 weird things I learned throughout the experiment week:   (1) It’s OK To Feel Uncomfortable At First   I felt so uncomfortable and a little embarrassed at first. I wasn’t quite sure how I was going to make each...