SOPA Sucks
The fun version: http://theoatmeal.com/ The long version, but important: The Bill – SOPA A good summary on why SOPA sucks by Mashable.
Where Google Search Plus Your World Goes Wrong
Remember the days of searching places like Yahoo to find the best results that fit? I can remember painfully clicking link after link to find the relevant search results on my search topic. Me and the back button? We considered getting engaged. I came across a Search Engine Land experiment on how the new Google Search plus Your World works. Google has done some pretty unremarkable things in the past (Hello turning off sharing in Google Reader!). The one thing they’ve always excelled at are their efforts to try and improve search results. For example, Panda was a huge move and it removed some of the most irrelevant sites from the top search results pool (spam, splogs).[.....]
Awaken Your Superhero – An eBook
Last year, my friend Chris took a long trip and asked a handful of people, including me, to write some inspirational stories on his blog for the period he was gone. Chris took the stories that we told and packaged them up in a free download, I wanted to share it with you – Awaken Your Superhero ebook style (also the name of his blog). Accompanied by some great minds, I wrote a post that pushed the boundaries of my usual writing style and includes the words “invisible pink monkeys”, if that doesn’t make you want to download and read it I don’t know what will. Other than I can promise that it will help[.....]
Top 5 Posts of 2011
Yeah I know it’s 4 days into 2012, so why am I looking back? Because I find it interesting which were my top 5 post last year and would like to share them with you because I know there are nuggets that will make you more productive if nothing else. Stop Using Your Inbox as a Todo List The last to do list you’ll ever need 4 Sanity Saving Tricks for Gmail Social Inbox Zero How Klout Scores Could Be More Useful to Marketers (though this applies to brands giving away perks too) Okay no more looking back, use these to help you jump forward and make 2012 a grand success!
3 Words and Goals for 2012 – Flow Insight and Commitment
At the first of the year, for a few years now, Chris Brogan has inspired me to think of and post three words that I want to strive to define the new year by. I had to think about it a bit more than usual this year as so many things have threaded through my life in the last few months making me question really where I want to go next. It’s been a bit of a challenge, but I like challenges and am ready to meet 2012 with the feistiness it deserves. Flow, Insight, Commitment. Flow There is a common thread running through each of the things that I do professionally. There are many strands[.....]
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SOPA Sucks
The fun version: http://theoatmeal.com/ The long version, but important: The Bill – SOPA A good summary on why SOPA sucks by Mashable.
Where Google Search Plus Your World Goes Wrong
Remember the days of searching places like Yahoo to find the best results that fit? I can remember painfully clicking link after link to find the relevant search results on my search topic. Me and the back button? We considered getting engaged. I came across a Search Engine Land experiment on how the new Google Search plus Your World works. Google has done some pretty unremarkable things in the past (Hello turning off sharing in Google Reader!). The one thing they’ve always excelled at are their efforts to try and improve search results. For example, Panda was a huge move and it removed some of the most irrelevant sites from the top search results pool (spam, splogs).[.....]
Awaken Your Superhero – An eBook
Last year, my friend Chris took a long trip and asked a handful of people, including me, to write some inspirational stories on his blog for the period he was gone. Chris took the stories that we told and packaged them up in a free download, I wanted to share it with you – Awaken Your Superhero ebook style (also the name of his blog). Accompanied by some great minds, I wrote a post that pushed the boundaries of my usual writing style and includes the words “invisible pink monkeys”, if that doesn’t make you want to download and read it I don’t know what will. Other than I can promise that it will help[.....]
Top 5 Posts of 2011
Yeah I know it’s 4 days into 2012, so why am I looking back? Because I find it interesting which were my top 5 post last year and would like to share them with you because I know there are nuggets that will make you more productive if nothing else. Stop Using Your Inbox as a Todo List The last to do list you’ll ever need 4 Sanity Saving Tricks for Gmail Social Inbox Zero How Klout Scores Could Be More Useful to Marketers (though this applies to brands giving away perks too) Okay no more looking back, use these to help you jump forward and make 2012 a grand success!
3 Words and Goals for 2012 – Flow Insight and Commitment
At the first of the year, for a few years now, Chris Brogan has inspired me to think of and post three words that I want to strive to define the new year by. I had to think about it a bit more than usual this year as so many things have threaded through my life in the last few months making me question really where I want to go next. It’s been a bit of a challenge, but I like challenges and am ready to meet 2012 with the feistiness it deserves. Flow, Insight, Commitment. Flow There is a common thread running through each of the things that I do professionally. There are many strands[.....]
Social Inbox Zero – Act
This is part two in my Social Inbox Zero series. We get hundreds of messages a day from Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, etc.; not to mention the many email addresses to manage daily. Everyone looking for a one button/tool solution, stop now. Maybe one day we’ll have a one button push marketing computer that weighs the pros, cons and responses and chooses the appropriate path and then posts the answer for you on various social networks. But today is not that day. Set Up a Routine Setting up a system for yourself varies according to how each YOU work best. In my case, I’m great at responding to email later in the day rather than first thing in[.....]
“why you won’t make the hard decisions” and how The Flinch will help you change that
Julien used to intimidate the hell out of me. Then he pushed me. Go ahead, think of something that you want to do but you’ve put off because of every reason excuse imaginable. Now go read The Flinch. You have no reason NOT to read it, it’s one of the best damn life lessons you’re going to get and it’s free.
How Klout Scores Could Be More Useful To Marketers
If you want to sell, let’s say, Cat Genie’s. Are you going to contact every blogger with a huge reader base on the internet and ask them to blog about the Cat Genie? No. (I hope you said no to that. If you didn’t, you have far more important things to do that do not involve Klout scores.) First you need to know if they have a cat or talk about cats or are influential about cats. Enter Klout. It has a nice nifty easy number for you to tell you exactly who to approach, right? Wrong. It doesn’t matter how high a blogger’s Klout score is, if they don’t have a cat or talk[.....]
Social Media Inbox Presentation
Below are the slides from my Social Inbox Zero presentation at Podcamp Boston 6. It’s a short demonstration of the roadmap for all social inbox zero posts which will be released soon. If you have questions about how to organize your social data, please get in touch! Social inbox zero View more presentations from Michelle Wolverton.
Social Inbox Zero
Inbox Zero. We’ve dabbled in it, read about it, tried to make it work for us, sometimes we succeeded. The system is like any system. It works if you are loyal to it. If you practice it consistently. If you aren’t familiar with Inbox Zero, it’s a system designed to help you tame your inbox. The goal is to have a inbox with zero messages in it. Everything filed, saved to a list for later or otherwise archived. The actions of Inbox Zero are Do/Defer/Delete/Delegate/Archive. We’re always looking for a ways to be more productive. We want more time to focus on the projects and people that matter. Managing Information from the Firehose If you[.....]
