Thinks I find along the way
Mmmm…
Suddenly, I wonder – is all hardness justified because we are so slow in realizing that life was meant to be heroic? Greatness is required of us. That is life’s aim and justification, and we poor fools have for centuries been trying to make it convenient, manageable, pliant to our will. It is also peaceful and tender and funny and dull. Yes, all that.
~ Florida Scott-Maxwell, The Measure of My Days
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Christine Arylo shares…
#jimmyfallon is rocking it!
Forget the mad guitar and vocal skills for a moment. How does a kid write a love song like this?
Are you a pinterest user?
As the 3rd most popular social network site in the United States, having an active Pinterest strategy should be a priority for your small business. If you aren’t quite sure how exactly Pinterest can work for you, here are 10 great ways to use Pinterest for your small business, courtesy of Karen Leeland.
The primary way I use Pinterest is to find and share great visual content. I can use it to find the right image or infographic for my post but having created a post that has rich visual content, I also want to use Pinterest to share that content from my blog so that it drives people to my website. Make sense? Questions? Feedback?
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Yup. I like the challenge. I also didn’t like the way that Twenty Fourteen did not center on wide monitors. Sorbet is perfect for the kind of ‘blogging’ I do here if you want to call it that. Simple, straightforward, fun. Once again, I pronounce my blog ‘perfect’ until another theme comes along that catches my eye…
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I don’t know why I find PostSecret.com so fascinating, but I do…
h/t @davidkanigan
When trying to get found on the internet, leave no stone unturned. Learn not only how but when to share:
There are many tools you can use to gauge your timing. HootSuite’s functionality enables you to automatically schedule your Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn updates based on your followers’ engagement patterns. A great app I just discovered called SocialBro analyzes the timelines of your followers and creates a “best time to tweet” report that tells you when you should be tweeting to maximize retweets and replies. Topsy, an app that has been around for a few years, performs social network trend analysis. Timing+ helps you decide when it’s best to post on Google+ by evaluating your historical post data. SocialFlow uses real-time data to understand the constantly changing interests of your audience and maps your content to the windows where you’ll get the most attention.
Remember to post anything really good to your blog first and then share it from there…
Jimmy Fallon’s riff on hashtags is fast becoming a social meme. In case you’ve been living under a rock, here it is…
This week at SXSW, some folks were looking beyond Fallon to crack the code. Conclusion?:
Hashtags help discovery of trends, topics, sentiment.
Go to the source: #SXSWi 2014 Recap: High on Hashtags | Search Engine Journal.
I believe that smart people use #hashtags not only to label but DISCOVER the best content. Ask me why in the comments…
Facebook, Google+ and other social networks are great tools, but in this week’s edition of This Old Marketing with Joe Pulizzi and Robert Rose, they reference a ‘readworthy’ article that I’ll be referencing from now on. Here’s a sample:
Quick: Name one successful publisher that built its brand on the back of a social platform? Can’t do it? Neither can I, unless you count sites like UpWorthy. And those flying near the social network sun risk getting seriously burned. There’s a reason publishers don’t build on top of social platforms: publishers are an independent lot, and they naturally understand the value of owning your own domain. Publishers don’t want to be beholden to the shifting sands of inscrutable platform policies. So why on earth would a brand?
Go to the source: To Be Clear: Do Not Build Your Brand House On Land You Don’t Own | John Battelle’s Search Blog.
I’ve been using this ‘concept’ of rented land in my courses for years so I’m sure it’s not original. John Batelle’s article is definitely worth the read. You can download Joe and Robert’s podcast here.
#truestory!
Bright, shiny objects! 
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