In my first attempt at video blogging, I tell a personal story to illustrate the soft side of social media’s benefits: [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=igqBkBClPYI] If you don’t have five minutes to spend — and I know, that’s long and I need to practice tightening up my story telling — here are the high points: I have a saved search in HootSuite for…