What I learned and did this week…

How can I help?
I had one of those incredible first meetings this morning — freelancers, salespeople, you know the one — the meeting when you know that your product offering is EXACTLY what is missing from the prospective client’s life. As a follow up, she asked me to summarize for her why I felt so strongly that I [...]

Is blogging still relevant?
From time to time, students ask me ‘is blogging relevant’? When I say that blogging is the foundation of thought leadership marketing, many of them are skeptical. After all, aren’t bloggers 40 year old white guys that live in their parents basement spewing political venom in their pajamas? Far from it! While Facebook, Google+, LinkedIn [...]

WordPress.com may be all you need…
I like to talk to you for a moment about thought leadership marketing and an important tool for making it happen… As Chris Brogan says “if you can’t be found in Google you don’t exist”. I say, if you want to be credible on the internet, you have to be searchable, findable, knowable, usable and [...]

Ouch! Email and Productivity…
Looking to become more productive? “Yet another reason to shut down your email client (or close your Gmail tab) and process messages in batches: a study shows that it takes an average of 64 seconds to recover your train of thought after interruption by email. That’s more than a minute per email, and could easily [...]

Calendars…
The folks at Lifehacker took a poll on the top calendaring applications. Here are the results… “Nothing’s more important to your productivity arsenal than a solid scheduling tool, and considering so much of what we do happens at the computer, a good calendar application is just the thing to bring order to your agenda. On [...]

Netscape; Official Support Ended on March 1st, 2008…
Somehow this escaped my attention… “Given AOL’s current business focus and the success the Mozilla Foundation has had in developing critically-acclaimed products, we feel it’s the right time to end development of Netscape branded software. Read the history page for more details about this decision.” Home :: The Netscape Archive It’s the end of an [...]
Want to Monitor RSS Feeds…
…but don’t want to use an rss reader? Personally, I think that’s going in the wrong direction, but that would be your choice. ‘Feed my Inbox’ is a website that will allow you to track websites with newsfeeds and send an update to your inbox with new postings every day. By the way, if you [...]



