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3 Tools for Curating Content on MacOS

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I’m a big fan of effective curation for content marketing and ‘thought leadership’. My preferred platform is Windows 7 these days, but many of my clients prefer MacOS. I put together a little riff yesterday outlining how use 3 tools to effectively curate content on the Mac.

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This week in Facebook @e1evation

Facebook. Love it? Hate it? Trends indicate it’s still an important part of a balanced social media diet. I must admit, however, that Facebook has lost some of its luster for me. Sometimes even I get tired of managing social media and the addition of Google+ to the mix has me a little weary… In [...]

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The best of e1evation for the week ending 1/21/2012

What I learned and did this week…

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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 [...]

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Is blogging still relevant?

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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 [...]

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WordPress.com may be all you need…

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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Shareaholic…

Here’s my new, favorite Firefox plugin… “Shareaholic makes it easy for you to submit the web page you’re on to your favorite sharing or bookmarking service, including: digg, del.icio.us, facebook, friendfeed, google bookmarks, google reader notes, kaboodle, magnolia, mixx, myspace, pownce, reddit, stumbleupon, tumblr, twitter, and ycombinator. You can also e-mail the web page directly [...]

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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 [...]

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