Inbox tabs in Gmail…

Inbox Tabs in Gmail are a valuable tool for making sure you handle your most important email first. Watch this video and see not only how it works at the desktop level but also on iOS and Android as well…

If you like that, follow it up with my favorite 7+ Gmail features…

Boldly going…

…where I have never gone before!

Here’s my first pass

Feedly; processing and publishing content on the go…

 

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First off, this series is going to be a little like Star Wars in that I’m starting the story kind of in the middle. I was most inspired to start my new set of mobile screen casts focusing on Feedly which to me may be the single most important tool in the content marketers toolbox.

First a little bit of review. I said earlier other places that if you want to be a thought leader on the Internet you have to be able to manage all of your personal information well. By this I mean you’ll never be a big dog out on the Internet if you can’t get off the porch of your inbox. In other posts I’ve talked about how the single most important thought for me is to get newsletters and other just in case information out of my inbox into a feed reader. Feedly is the only feed reader that meets my five criteria for recommended application. I’ve included that list again here:

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In his classic book Getting Things Done David Allen recommends that we use exactly as many containers as we need and not a single one more. Feedly is the container that I use and recommend both for processing and producing content to drive my content marketing campaigns. In the video below I’ll take you through the process of configuring Feedly for mobile use and take you through the processing, producing, and postproduction phases of using Feedly define the content you need to feed YOUR content marketing campaigns.

Where would you like me to go with this? What topics did I miss? Please let me know in the comments below…

Wordless Wednesday — Cornucopia of Roses

Stephen Hawking: Questioning the Universe



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Do what you love? Or do what most needs doing?

Even when you are doing what you love, there will be aspects of that avocation that you’d rather not do. I think the answer is not either/or, but both/and. Have we become so soft and spoiled that we believe that every day will be filled with unicorns and rainbows if we choose what we love? Even unicorns poop…

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A 2012 share titled “Do What You Love” garnered more likes (393) and more views (8,396) than any other post on this blog. My thinking has evolved (you were naive!) since that time with a subsequent share titled: Do What You Love? Wrong! and this NY Times article by Professor Gordon Marino titled Life Beyond ‘Do What You Love’:

…But is “do what you love” wisdom or malarkey?

…the “do what you love” ethos so ubiquitous in our culture is in fact elitist because it degrades work that is not done from love. It also ignores the idea that work itself possesses an inherent value, and most importantly, severs the traditional connection between work, talent and duty.

…My father didn’t do what he loved. He labored at a job he detested so that he could send his children to college. Was he just unenlightened and mistaken…

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Beyond writing: 8 alternative content marketing ideas and how to leverage them

Memeburn writes:

A block of text does not sit well with the average users, and they are likely to lose interest fast if you don’t provide him with a little “eye-candy”. To be honest, I rarely read an article from start to finish. Even if I am interested in it, a boring format will probably make me quit before I even get to the middle. The image above shows how different types of articles are usually read.

So what can you do to maintain the viewer’s interest, and hopefully ensure that content marketing becomes king? There is a common misunderstanding when it comes to content. Most live with under impression that the term only refers to written content, but in reality, it also refers to images, videos, podcasts and other means of online communication.

Go to the source to get the content ideas: Beyond writing: 8 alternative content marketing ideas and how to leverage them | memeburn.

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