eCarList had the pleasure of hosting its semi-annual meeting yesterday at the Hotel ZaZa in Dallas.  Our growing team gathered to reflect on past successes and get focused on future initiatives.

I want to thank every member of the growing eCarList team for making yesterday’s meeting such a success.

The other night, I’m watching the Tonight Show with Conan O’Brien do his famous “In the Year 3000″ routine in which he and his sidekick, Andy, make ridiculously silly predictions about the future.  One of Conan’s predictions was, “In the year 3000, You Tube, Twitter and Facebook will merge into one massive time-wasting website called, ‘YouTwitFace‘.   Apart from it being hilarious, it got me thinking.  Is Social Media being taken seriously, or do we have just another Internet micro-bubble on our hands?

I personally believe social media used in the right capacity can be beneficial to you both personally and professionally.  I have a Facebook account, a LinkedIn account and I belong to a couple Automotive social networks.  I use Facebook on my iPhone when I find myself waiting for my car to get washed or my steak to get to medium-rare.  LinkedIn has done absolutely nothing for me, but I know people who rely on it heavily for business networking.  I don’t have a MySpace account…because, well I’m a male above the age of 15 and I don’t play in a band…yet.

Now what about car dealers?  Tweeting?  Really?   (more…)