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Fixed: Troubleshooting your Thesis upgrade to 1.8 from 1.6

The short version: Has your Thesis site gotten messed up after an upgrade? The problem may be as simple as some lost settings. Use Thesis Design Options to restore them to your previous or preferred choices. It won’t take long so you don’t need to panic....

The 5 requirements for a starter social media presence

This entry is part 2 of 5 in the series Social media in 3 hours a week

What are the 5 factors that shape the investment you’re willing to make in social media? I hear about the same key considerations from a lot of people, so I’ve spelled them out as the requirements for the easy to set up, easy to maintain presence I will map out in this series.

How I do it: Internet edition

This entry is part 1 of 5 in the series Social media in 3 hours a week

Twitter and the Temblor: Managing a social media emergency

Yesterday morning I gave a talk on social media to a group of Canadian government employees. The talk was organized…

Today on HBR: A hard look at the hard bodies promised by Tim Ferriss

My latest post for Harvard Business Review takes a hard look at hard bodies: specifically, the hard bodies promised by Tim Ferriss in his book, The 4-Hour Body. In the post I quote three experts I asked for insight into the book’s recommendations: Dr. Tieraona...

Predicting the future of the “personal brand”

Yesterday Dan Schawbel published an interview with me on his Personal Branding blog. I have previously criticized the “personal branding” vogue both on this site and on my HBR blog, so I warned Dan he might be in for a rough ride! Much to his credit, he...

The 8 stages of professional commitment: social media edition

I’ve recently crossed the commitment threshold. Not the romantic commitment threshold — heck, that’s easy, considering how little software is required (usually). I’m talking about the professional commitment I make to each project I take on,...

11 ways Twitter can change your life, as told by its users

Online conversations change lives. That belief drives most of my work and writing, which is why I’m always so interested to hear people reflect on the ways that social media affects their relationships, career or self-image. A few months ago I collected some of...

Does the Internet eradicate barriers or perpetuate them?

The Guardian published an interesting story this weekend about the Internet’s impact on disability. Aleks Krotoski writes that her masters’ thesis in social psychology demonstrated two ways the web benefits people with physical disabilities: First, the web...

Diary of a yak shave: Or, How to get an Excel file into Scrivener

I need to write a draft document that borrows from my previous blog posts. A sane (non-techie) person might just write the freaking document, already. But that is not the Geek Way. So I’m now in the middle of an epic yak shave: Installed a WordPress plugin that...

Fixed: Troubleshooting your Thesis upgrade to 1.8 from 1.6

Twitter and the Temblor: Managing a social media emergency

Today on HBR: A hard look at the hard bodies promised by Tim Ferriss

Predicting the future of the “personal brand”

The 8 stages of professional commitment: social media edition

11 ways Twitter can change your life, as told by its users

Does the Internet eradicate barriers or perpetuate them?

Diary of a yak shave: Or, How to get an Excel file into Scrivener

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