Journalist Tries Out Some of Sree Sreenivasan's Twitter Advice

It earned her a quick, impressive transatlantic "Favorite."

SreeIndiaAhead of a new role as New York City chief digital officer beginning in October, Sree Sreenivasan traveled back home in India.

He gave a number of talks about social media, both on college campus and at the New Delhi U.N. office. At one of these events, writer Elizabeth Mathew decided, on the spot, to try out something that Sreenivasan counseled. From her piece for The Hindu:

“Build a network when you don’t need it,” Sree says, encouraging people to follow, retweet and tag people they would like to connect to, before they actually need to…

Taking his advice, I tweet a quote Sree shares, “The scarcest resource of the 21st Century is Human Attention,” and tag Les Hinton, ex-publisher of The Wall Street Journal.

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