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Tools I use; Google Reader. Navigating and keyboard shortcuts

This entry is part 4 of 5 in the series Google Reader Tips
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In this post I talk about organizing all those feeds you have been aggregating and how to quickly move through articles in Google Reader… Related articles What Do You Hate Most About the New Google Reader? (marketingpilgrim.com) Google Reader Is Not About Reading News It Is About Curation (regulargeek.com) Google neuters Google Reader (e1evation.com) Tools [...]

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Tools I use; Google Reader. Advanced ways to get content into Google Reader

This entry is part 3 of 5 in the series Google Reader Tips
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THIS is the good stuff…

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Tools I use; Google Reader. Intermediate ways to get content into Google Reader

This entry is part 2 of 5 in the series Google Reader Tips
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In this session, we go beyond the basics and talk about using news aggregators to add content to Google Reader…

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Tools I use; Google Reader. Simple ways to get content into Google Reader

This entry is part 1 of 5 in the series Google Reader Tips
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This is the first of a multipart series on getting content in and out of Google Reader. Part of this content is in preparation for an interactive ebook on ‘personal news aggregation‘ and an upcoming seminar/webinar at The Docking Station in Green Bay on ‘How to drink from the information firehose without drowning’. You can [...]

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Tools I use; Gmail’s Priority Inbox

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  In this quick screencast, I talk about 5 features that make Gmail or Google Apps my choice for email: Mail Fetcher Priority Inbox Snippets Quick Links Keyboard shortcuts How about you? What’s your favorite feature?

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Saturday Night Live (season 10)

The 5 Minute University

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Where did the original idea come from? SNL of course! Decades later, I still think this is the funniest bit I ever saw on Saturday Night Live… I use Jing for my ‘five minute universities’ because it only records for 5 minutes forcing me to be succinct and on target…

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Tactic #7: Bookmark socially!

This entry is part 10 of 13 in the series Top 10 Tactics and Tools

Although the perspective focuses on Delicious, the message is clear; Bookmarking has more value when you use a tool that saves your bookmarks out to a website where they can be accessed or shared from any computer to any computer or user… My favorite tool of this sort is called ‘FriendFeed’. Here’s a little on [...]

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Erik Qualman’s ‘Social Media Revolution’, Take 3

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Google fonts and Woo Themes! #awesomeness

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ABC. Always be curating!

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Long before I was a website developer, I was in sales and sales management. The other day, I had a convo with a fellow sales puke and we were discussing the top 3 sales movies of all time. They were, in our opinions, Glengarry Glen Ross, Boiler Room and, of course, Tommy Boy! Here’s the [...]

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