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Twitter makes jet lag even more painful
Mar 24, 2011 | Community
It was 3 in the afternoon, but it could have been 3 in the morning to judge from the exhausted faces of a roomful of entrepreneurs. These entrepreneurs constitute the up-and-coming generation of businesses in Cluj, Romania, and I had just spent the day talking them...
How many e-mail clients do you need?
Mar 23, 2011 | Productivity
Jodie Tonita is a lovely person. She is passionate, funny, kind to children and small animals, and an amazing hula-hooper. Unfortunately she was sent by our alien overlords to ensure I never do my actual work. As evidence, check out this message Jodie left on my...
How to write a blog post in 10 minutes
Mar 22, 2011 | Productivity, Top Blogging Posts
For Lent, I’ve decided to give up reading about digital fasts
Mar 21, 2011 | Self
Gosh, how I love digital fasts. And Lent 2011 has given us a bumper crop of digital fasters who now find 40 days without Facebook (or Twitter) more profound and painful than a month without booze, TV or smokes. Well, if they can live without us for 40 days (sniff!)...
How to sustain a social media presence in 3 hours a week
Mar 18, 2011 | Career, Top Strategy Posts, Current, Zone
Feel like you don’t have enough time to create a meaningful social media presence? In this post I spell out my step-by-step process for creating and maintaining a high value, useful blog and Twitter presence in just (I mean it!) 3 hours a week.
10 things to do while waiting for your domain name to propagate
Mar 17, 2011 | Lifestyle
Most of the time the Internet does a very good job of creating the illusion that everything can now be instantaneous. You're on the phone with a colleague on the other side of the world, editing a Google Doc together, and the second you see that typo appear she...
5 steps to create your social media toolkit
Mar 16, 2011 | Top Strategy Posts, Top Career Posts, Career
Building a social media presence around a specific area of expertise is your best way to connect with a network and audience that cares about your work, and gets real value from your online contributions. This blog post walks you through the 5 steps that will get you up and running with three tools that will let you build and maintain a credible online presence as an expert: a Wordpress blog, a Google Reader account and a Twitter presence managed through HootSuite.
The 5 requirements for a starter social media presence
Mar 14, 2011 | Career
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
Mar 14, 2011 | Self
Twitter and the Temblor: Managing a social media emergency
Mar 11, 2011 | The Harvard Business Review, Career, Top Strategy Posts, Top Career Posts
Yesterday morning I gave a talk on social media to a group of Canadian government employees. The talk was organized…