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Category: Links of Interest
Social Media does not equal a platform
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Today I would like to explain why I feel that if you are an author or artist, you DO NOT need social media in order to have “a platform.” Plus: I’ll tell you exactly what will make agents and publishers happy, even if you never touch social media. We all need a platform of some…
What are you going to do about it?
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We are overloaded with daily opportunities to learn. It starts early, from the time we read our morning newspapers, it ends late, after we’ve watched the late night news before bedtime, and we’re hit all day in between with digital feeds and streaming news reports. Then there are the magazines, books, people, seminars, and training…
Juggling Kids and Work
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Many of you aren’t stay at home Mom bit don’t let the podcast topic throw you off. This is a great podcast on priority and how to juggle it with family commitments How A Stay at Home Mom Works on Her One Thing
@tferriss on building a winning blog or podcast
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Great podcast on some of what it takes to build a great blog or podcast. I said great because the measure should be your own not just listens or views. What measure matters to you? Listen now
Hardship in Entrepreneurship from @ryanholiday
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Entrepreneurs face obstacles from the moment they wake up in the morning, whether they’re trying to satisfy investors, struggling to meet payroll, dealing with unexpected complications or delivering a new product to market. Love the bridge and warf story most. 5 useful things for when you are hitting hard times in your business. Turning Crisis…
Copy Stuff from @austinkleon
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I liked reading this as I embark on a 365 project to draw one thing a day. I’m only like 15 days in and I’ve started to wonder about just copying stuff and following tutorials. Am I really doing “art” then. See I have a long term goal for a book. I want to write…
The Consulting Pipeline Podcast on Positioning Around a Technology
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I talked about positioning around a technology a few weeks ago. Then this came across my desk. Listen to Alain talk about positioning around Angular. The training aspect is very interesting to me.
Cal Newport on Facebook’s Smoke Screen
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Outrage-invoking political content might have been good business for Facebook, but in its absence, this company’s attention engineers can tap into any number of other distraction wells to keep users compulsively tapping the little blue icon on their phone – Facebook’s Smoke Screen I’m not a fan of how social media steals our attention. The…
The Starting Key to Being Productive
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Finding a good productivity system is so much more than the mechanics of whatever tool you use. In fact, almost every tool is more or less the same. They have due dates, and start dates. You can organize things into projects and sub-folders. Some of them allow collaboration and some don’t. Some follow Agile methods…
Podcast on Rules for life
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12 Rules for Life The big takeaway here is that the little things add up. If you’re laying around making excuses, that’s what it adding up. If you’re kicking ass, or trying to, that’s what’s adding up. If you’re taking a step on the path towards kicking ass. That’s what is adding up.
