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I’m curating this quote for another post but the simple elegance of Seth Godin’s thoughts deserves a spotlight all it’s own… Leadership (even idea leadership) scares many people, because it requires you to own your words, to do work that matters. The alternative is to be a junk dealer. The game theory pushes us into [...]

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What Makes A Great Curator Great? How To Distinguish High-Value Curation From Generic Republishing

By Todd Lohenry + on December 23, 2011 in Content Marketing, Curation, Featured, Social Media, Tools

My own thought leadership position is on the topic of tactics and tools for thought leadership. Occasionally, I come across great thoughts on the strategy or rationale behind curation for ‘thought leadership’ marketing and this perspective from Robin Good is one of the best I’ve read in a long time… Today content curation is “sold“, [...]

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The trap of social media noise

By Todd Lohenry + on December 11, 2011 in Content Marketing, Social Media, Thought Leadership

Thought provoking words from Seth Godin this morning… If we put a number on it, people will try to make the number go up. Now that everyone is a marketer, many people are looking for a louder megaphone, a chance to talk about their work, their career, their product… and social media looks like the [...]

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Tools vs insight

By Todd Lohenry + on December 5, 2011 in Just in case, Tools

Seth Godin is brilliant. Here’s proof… How is your vocabulary? It’s a vital tool, certainly. Do you know these words? a, after, and, as, die, eternal, first, gets, gun, have, in, is, job, life, me, mouth, my, pushing, saying, step, that, the, to, Tyler, waiter, you. How about these? a, am, and, anywhere, are, be, [...]

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What Does Eight Years Of Blogging Get You?

By Todd Lohenry + on September 30, 2011 in Blogging, Just in case

One of my favorite thought leaders Mitch Joel is reflecting today on 8 years of blogging… Eight years ago on this day in 2003, I started Blogging. Here’s some basic info about what has transpired in eight years here at the Six Pixels of Separation Blog: over 2700 Blog entries, over 20,000 comments and over [...]

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Back to (the wrong) school

By Todd Lohenry + on September 5, 2011 in Trends

Of all the Labor Day analyses I’ve read this weekend, this one may be the most important. Funny, but I jumped in the middle of the article and thought “this sounds like Seth Godin”. I was right. Seth says… If you do a job where someone tells you exactly what to do, they will find [...]

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