Category Archives: Motivational & Opinion
Kevin Kelly on Web 10.0
Note: Kevin Kelly also has one of the best examples of lifestreaming I’ve ever seen. Check out his site: http://kk.org/ to see what I mean.
In Action: The Successful Social Media Campaign
If you’re up for a good read, take a look at Mashable’s HOW TO: Grow a Startup 300% in 3 Days? SocialMedian Tells All. The title is bloated, but the article is important for at a few good reasons: People are the heart of any worthwhile business model (See also: Happiness as a business model) Listen to user feedback and actively do something about the feedback you’re getting Change should not be implemented lightly. Or slowly Forget traffic. You’re nothing without engagement Always build a good user interface. Always. Here’s …
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6 Things To Avoid In a Social Media Campaign
Don’t work without a system Although it’s easier to see the connection between creating media and art, code too is an art. Managed chaos is required so they can all work well together: each creative process should work within a framework with defined ways of going about it. A lot of it maybe uncharted territory so at the very least, clearly communicate the big picture. Don’t set unreasonable goals This is worse than setting no goals at all. Stretching the team too far guarantees that Monday through Friday, everyone’s simply …
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How to Live Like Water
See also: 7 Ways to Ensure a Successful Social Media Campaign
7 Ways To Ensure A Successful Social Media Campaign
1. Create & follow a Social Media Campaign Plan Obviously it is important to plan out any project before starting out. At the very least, establishing a basic idea of what you hope to achieve means it’ll be easier to keep everyone involved on the same page. (In a similar vein, don’t overdo the planning or it’ll end up hurting more than helping. Be like water.) 2. Empower campaign personnel Who manages your communication channels? What tools do they need? Do they work in an environment that actually helps them …
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How To Send in Your Resume
Instead of the 2nd part of the Social Media Success Checklist post, I’d like to show you about my favorite resume experience so far. Although we get a lot them, they mostly follow a tediously boring and predictable, template-like pattern. Sometimes people will get creative and add creative touches but for the most part they all follow a predictable, template-like pattern. All of that changed for us last week when we got this from E—-: Please choose from the following responses as I’m trying to plan my future. Feel free …
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Be Resourceful
“You can always find a capable helping hand at the end of your own sleeve.” – Zig Ziglar Being resourceful is tantamount to being useful. If you’re resourceful, you have the ability to, here’s the key concept, work with what you have to find quick and clever ways to overcome obstacles. Are you being resourceful in your personal and professional life? In today’s free-wheeling, credit-wielding economy (circa pre-2008 of course) many individuals and organizations have lost the art of resourcefulness and frugality in their problem solving and decision-making. Thanks to …
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Don’t Invade My Space
The following is a guest post from Bob Sale and if we had our way, there will be more to come from him. In order to illuminate why social networking sites such as Myspace might be misleading to employers, let me paint you a mind picture: You’re an employer. You received a resume that caught your attention because it was really good……a little too really good. You become suspicious and decide to research the person’s personality by googling their name. You type in Rob Jansen into the search engine and …
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