Online Productivity: How To Work Where You Play

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They say that if you do what you like, you’ll never work a day in your life. That statement might be truer than you think – especially if the “where” is online. Online Community Managers, aside for creating excitement around their brands, spend quite a lot of their free time online, too. After a while, many of us find that our work time either eclipses our play time, or that they just bleed into each other and you end up trying to do both at once. And that’s never a good idea. So here are some simple ideas I’ve put into practice over the past few months – and they seem to be workout out pretty well! They’re all stuff I picked up from regularly-read blogs like Mashable and TechCrunch – you know, those “How to Be Productive…” type articles. Just a disclaimer: I am an unorganized mess if I don’t give myself rules. So if I can do it – anyone can!

National Delurking Day

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This is a bit of an old school blog day that we celebrate each year.  I think I first posted about this day about 4-5 years ago on my Daddy Blog.  What is Delurking Day you might ask?  In the blog world, many people read blogs and they watch and read comments all the while … [Read more]

Is Foursquare The New Twitter?

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I have recently been using Foursquare on my Blackberry Storm smartphone.  I believe it is only in the beta version at this point for Blackberry users but anyone and nearly everyone with an iPhone are using it in our world, The application is still working a little clunky and not the best of user experience … [Read more]

Tag You’re It! – Why Tagging Your Content Is Important

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If I have said it once I have said it a thousand times, “We live in a Google world.”  It is true, we don’t order Chinese food, find directions to the store, or stalk old girlfriends without using Google.  Being findable in this world is important if you are trying to be found.  Businesses especially … [Read more]

Listening To Yourself

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I called 2009 the year of listening. Many reputation monitoring products made their hay in 2009 including Radian6, TechRigy, Flitrbox, and others.  They all have listening in common.  Being able to hear what is being said about you and your brand online is an important part of your listening campaign.  Not only should you be … [Read more]

Help Us Help A Friend of BlogWorld Expo

Tragedies occur every day and yesterday was no different except that one tragedy happened to a friend of ours. Tee Morris‘ wife passed away leaving Tee to be a single parent of a young daughter. Tee was a speaker this year at BlogWorld & New Media Expo and was a great asset to our show. … [Read more]

Building Online Communities: Are We Preaching to the Choir?

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A couple of weeks ago, I had a wonderful phone conversation with Mark Stelzner. Most of our discussion centered around the building and cultivating online communities. During our conversation, I suggested Mark, and anyone else who is building an online community, stop preaching to the choir. You see, your community is already sold. They joined … [Read more]