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Get More Value from Blogging, Part VII: Inspiring Yourself and Inspiring Others

Sun, 13 Mar 2011 13:00:00 +0000

Paul Gillin invited me to do a tweetchat on the professional and personal value of blogging. When I brainstormed some of the things I’d like to talk about, I ended up with a big list: not just the value I get from blogging, but also tips for how you can build that too. I hope [...]

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Trying MemoLane (social timeline)

Fri, 11 Mar 2011 02:08:57 +0000

Trying MemoLane on David Ing’s recommendation. It organizes blog posts, Twitter posts, Facebook entries, and other social information into a rather pretty timeline. This has been done before, but Memolane does have a pretty interface. Wish it could pull in all of my old blog posts and tweets, though! =) Potentially interesting feature: collaborate with [...]

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Get More Value from Blogging, part VI: Let’s Get Down to Business

Fri, 04 Mar 2011 15:40:20 +0000

Paul Gillin invited me to do a tweetchat on the professional and personal value of blogging yesterday. When I brainstormed some of the things I’d like to talk about, I ended up with a big list: not just the value I get from blogging, but also tips for how you can build that too. I [...]

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Questions and answers from #infoboomSC tweetchat on blogging

Thu, 03 Mar 2011 20:46:35 +0000

Paul Gillin invited me to do a tweetchat about blogging. I learned so much from it, and I hope others do too! Here’s what we talked about. On making the time to write Your output is amazing. I don’t know where you find the time to post daily. How do you do it? @infoBOOM Writing [...]

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Get More Value from Blogging, part V: Communication Matters

Wed, 02 Mar 2011 00:46:58 +0000

Paul Gillin invited me to do a tweetchat on the professional and personal value of blogging on March 3, 2011 (2pm-3pm EST, #infoboom). When I brainstormed some of the things I’d like to talk about, I ended up with a big list: not just the value I get from blogging, but also tips for how [...]

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Get More Value from Blogging, part II: The Compounding Value of an Archive

Fri, 25 Feb 2011 13:00:00 +0000

Paul Gillin invited me to do a tweetchat on the professional and personal value of blogging on March 3, 2011 (2pm-3pm EST, #infoboom). When I brainstormed some of the things I’d like to talk about, I ended up with a big list: not just the value I get from blogging, but also tips for how [...]

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Get More Value from Blogging, part I: The Immediate Benefits of Thought

Thu, 24 Feb 2011 14:58:29 +0000

Paul Gillin invited me to do an #infoboom tweetchat on the professional and personal value of blogging on March 3, 2011 (2pm-3pm EST). When I brainstormed some of the things I’d like to talk about, I ended up with a big list: not just the value I get from blogging, but also tips for how [...]

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LinkedIn tip: Customize your profile URL

Sat, 19 Feb 2011 01:23:00 +0000

This tip’s for Mike Nurse and other people who are looking for small things that could make LinkedIn more useful for them… =) Did you know that you can customize your LinkedIn URL to make it more memorable, writable, and professional? Log on to linkedin.com. Click on Profile – Edit Profile. Click on Edit next [...]

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Imagine success for social media

Wed, 16 Feb 2011 13:13:54 +0000

I was talking to an independent consultant who wanted to get better at using social media to expand his network. I suggested that he put together articles and presentations that he can share with his contacts (mostly executives) that are useful and that they would probably share with the right people in their companies. Thinking [...]

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Risks, personal brands, and findability

Wed, 30 Jun 2010 12:00:00 +0000

I started the day with an interview for a course on social media education. The team sent me a list of follow-up questions an hour and a half before the call. They were surprised when I quickly posted an entry answering their questions. I figured that if I jotted a few thoughts down, they could [...]

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Exponential awesomeness

Tue, 25 May 2010 12:00:00 +0000

  @smeech I recently built an entire workshop around Sacha Chua‘s Teacher’s Guide to Web 2.0: http://ow.ly/160X0 Watch/Do/Teach was our mantra @sachac Sacha! Your presentation provided a perfect, low-stress, socratic & fun contextual frame for my day-long workshop. We had a ball!   kjarrett on Twitter @sachac LOVE your stuff! I use a couple of [...]

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The problem with personal branding

Fri, 23 Apr 2010 12:00:00 +0000

One of the problems with personal branding is that we tell people that they’re damned if they do and damned if they don’t. We scare people with stories about college students posting inappropriate pictures, employees complaining about their bosses, and search engines remembering everything. Then we tell people that they need to be on LinkedIn [...]

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On getting started with collaboration

Thu, 15 Apr 2010 12:00:00 +0000

The hardest part of collaboration is getting started. In the days and weeks and months before you have a critical mass of people on board, your progress can seem very slow. There’s a lot of resistance. People don’t trust your new initiative. They don’t see the value in changing their behaviour. They don’t see the [...]

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Large team challenges

Thu, 08 Apr 2010 12:00:00 +0000

What collaboration challenges do large teams face? Here are the key problems I often hear from people, organized in a rough flow of how teams encounter them within each category. Can you help me improve this list? Assets and knowledge Large attachments: People feel this particularly strongly in IBM because the system imposes “mail jail” [...]

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I’d like to build the post-connector workplace

Fri, 05 Feb 2010 13:00:00 +0000

In a large organization, there are two ways to create great value: you can know a lot, or you can know a lot of people. Even within formal hierarchies, there are connectors who influence without authority. As organizations take advantage of social networking tools, connectors can keep in touch with more and more people. Even [...]

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Around the watercooler

Sun, 24 Jan 2010 13:00:00 +0000

I attended a virtual watercooler session for the IBM CommunityBuilders community yesterday afternoon. It was great hearing from other people who are also figuring out how to help others use social networking tools to build community. We’re dealing with many of the same issues: encouraging adoption, facilitating participation, keeping up to date. One of the [...]

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Braindump: Social media advice for events

Wed, 20 Jan 2010 13:00:00 +0000

If this is something you’re attending: Figure out the hashtag people are using to talk about the event on Twitter. Share what you’re looking forward to, connect with people who are going, and start the conversation. Blog about the event, linking to the site and to other people who are talking about it. Connect with [...]

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Microblogging talk

Fri, 15 Jan 2010 13:00:00 +0000

I’ve promised to give a short talk on microblogging for the knowledge and collaboration community (KCBlue) at work. Might be a good time to practice animation, too. =) 5 minutes: 750 words, 20 minutes: 3,000 words (throw pauses in there too) Creativity loves constraints. I want to fit the core of my message into 5 [...]

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Getting started on your web presence

Thu, 14 Jan 2010 13:00:00 +0000

One of my mentees asked: in terms of public web presence, should you have a website, a blog, both of the above, or one site that serves both purposes? These are some things I’ve learned after eight years of having a public web presence: Have one site. It’s less confusing and it makes it easier [...]

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Information gardening tasks

Mon, 11 Jan 2010 13:00:00 +0000

A large part of my work involves capturing and organizing information. It takes a surprising lot of time and thought. Here are some of the things I do: Capture and file information, relevant mail, work in progress, final output, etc. Help people find information and improve the findability along the way Create and refine navigation [...]

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