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).[.....]
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[.....]
“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.
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[.....]
I have breasts
Now that I have your attention, go read this post by the awesomest lady, Tamsen: “I’d prefer my gender be an additional piece of information you know about me, rather than the primary one.” - Tamsen McMahon (@tamadear) If you don’t read it, you’re definitely a boob.
