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How to Connect (With Anyone) on LinkedIn
Every day, I watch as small handfuls of people who supposedly want to connect with me online thoroughly and entirely waste their opportunity to do so. They do this -- most notably -- in the form of terrible LinkedIn requests. Although some percentage of the dozen or...
Four Seasons: Denver, Colorado {Hotel Review}
On a recent work trip, I had the chance to stay at the Four Season in Denver. In life, I am perpetually perplexed that "Four Seasons" and a "Ritz Carlton" are not simply interchangeable words (and hotels), and this stay was no exception. I kept saying to myself, "The...
How to Get a Job: A True Story (Part 3)
Have you been following along with my series on How to Get a Job: A True Story? Catch up by reading Part 1 and Part 2, then read Part 3 below... How to Get a Job: A True Story (Part 3) And we're back. In Part 1, I showed you the awesome email I got from...
Book Reviews: All That You Can’t Leave Behind, The Peace “Corpse”
'Tis book review time. And this time I'm featuring books I'm positive you've never heard of. Why? Because I read some off-beat books. See my ongoing list of the 100 books I'm reading in 2012, and check out their (sometimes) pretty covers on my Pinterest board,...
Platform Building in Three Steps – An Interview with Michael Hyatt
The other day, I told you about one particular book. It's called Platform, and I love it. It's all about how to create a dedicated network to help support your aims and you can read more about what I thought of the book here. Today, I'm doing an interview with Michael...
How to Build A Platform
If you've been near me in the last week, you've likely heard me gushing. Not about some of the amazing events I've been to of late, or the weird food my boss made me eat, or the cute cardigan I bought at 70% off at Anthropologie. Nope. If you've been listening...
Email Etiquette: Six Tips to Dominate Your Inbox
There were quite a few responses to my post last week, I Didn’t Email You Back Because I Wanted to Personally Offend You. Fittingly, many of them came to me via email. And many were quite good. I've pulled together some of the best ones, with hopes that they might...
Book Reviews: Little Princes and Trout Fishing in the Yemen
Days have passed, I've read more books. See my ongoing list of the 100 books I'm reading in 2012, and check out their (sometimes) pretty covers on my Pinterest board, cryptically entitled: The 100 Books I'm Reading in 2012. As always, if you've got a book you want me...
Social Media for Social Good at Ideation
Note: Today I'll be leading an all-day intensive on social media for social good out here in Chicago at the Ideation conference. Here's the awesome outline of what we'll be talking about. Not here with us? Don't worry, we're recording it... The Agenda ...
What Happened at the Skoll World Forum (A Recap)
I go to (and speak at) a lot of events. Although I mostly forget to recap them, I did want to share a recap of the Skoll World Forum at Oxford University this year. It's a wonderful event for social entrepreneurs (for-profits, non-profits, anyone with a passion for...
Useful Twitter Links
As part of my once-a-month email blitz wherein I blast through emails while slurping large amounts of decaffeinated mochas (a luxury, for moi) to reduce my respective inboxes down to below 100, I found some tidbits of useful gold. Here's a list of useful Twitter...
The Top Ten Social Media Marketing Mistakes (Podcast #7)
Did you remember I have a podcast? Here's episode 6, and it's all about social media marketing. Specifically I'll be telling you the top ten social media marketing mistakes I see individuals, brands and organizations making every day. Hopefully you're not making them...
How to Give Away Free Stuff and Make People Like You
I already told you about this manifesto I wrote. It's called How to Be Social, and it's free for another 9 hours on Kindle. Timezones (and math) confuse me, so all you need to know is that you can download it free on Kindle until 11:59 pm PST. Giving away free...
How to Be Social is FREE on Kindle for 12 More Hours!
Last month, I told you about this manifesto I wrote. It's called How to Be Social, and it's a manifesto (as I said) all about social media marketing. How to use it, how to not use it, and how to know when your social media marketing efforts are sucking or...
I Didn’t Email You Back Because I Wanted to Personally Offend You (and other assumptions we make about digital communication)
This week, more than two strangers sent me emails outlining their apparently deep personal offense at the fact that I had not yet responded to their emails to me asking for things they want. The emails were much more dramatic versions of the following: "This is my...