One of the most important things thinkers who aspire to thought leadership need to do is to effectively manage the information they need to nurture and nourish their expertise…
I firmly believe the single most important issue in social media is not whether or not it works to generate leads; rather, how can I add social media to my already overflowing plate and still get home for supper. I think the first place where people can find additional time in their day is by more effectively handling e-mail. Conversely, I think it’s pretty difficult to think about the idea of becoming a thought leader if you have thousands of unread e-mails in your inbox especially when e-mail can be so easy to manage…
The first of the holy trio is Gmail. There are a lot of tips and tricks that you can apply to Gmail however I don’t think any one of them is more important than this: using e-mail for what I called just-in-time information — information that affects relationships and revenue. Everything else belongs somewhere else! If your e-mail inbox doesn’t look like this then you’re going to have a hard time adding the extra work that you need to do to establish your thought leadership position…
Your inbox CAN look like this most of the time…
The second member of the holy trio is feedly. I use feedly to track the sites, searches and sources that nourish my expertise. Instead of chasing information around the Internet I make the things I need to know flow to me. Because feedly is completely cross platform down to the smart phone level I can use it in Mac, Windows or Ubuntu [I prefer Chrome as my primary browser and all three] or on an Android or iOS device. Feedly gives me the ability to create a virtual newspaper jammed with the best content in the world and it’s free! It also allows me to quickly share the good things I find…
Use feedly to create a virtual newspaper that nourishes your expertise…
Last but by no means least is Evernote. Evernote is a cloud-based app that is completely cross platform down to the smart phone level so I can access the things I save from anywhere…
Evernote is the best platform for saving and sharing great information…
These three tools together give me everything I need to effectively manage the information I need to continually refresh my expertise. In the following screen cast of show you some of my favorite tips for using all three:
These are just the first three tools in my workflow — you can find more ideas here. If you could use some help managing the information you need to stay on top your game please contact me and ask me about personal digital coaching…
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Me? I suffer from ARF – asshole resting face. If I’m not consciously making an effort to smile, people assume I’m ready to pull out a gun and go postal. If there is some truth behind the humor in this video for you, Elephant Journal recommends this post…
We need to think harder about why privacy is important, what we mean by privacy, assess the various trade-offs and create public policies that reflect our values regarding the relationship between individuals and society.
The fear that the US will become a surveillance society is misplaced. It already is one.
The reality is that almost everything about you is already known, if not by the government, then by business. Every time you get on an airplane, you are scanned. Every time you search for a product online, the information falls into the hands of retailers who want you to buy their products.
We are instantly connected to the world—we talk, socialize, get the news, play, pay bills, state our opinions, research, shop. So it should be no surprise that the world knows everything about us in return. The flow of information goes in both directions…
Our generation is blessed with the type of opportunities our parents would have only dreamed about.
Technology, for one, is taking us to places and connecting us in ways we wouldn’t have even been able to imagine just a few years ago.
But as a result of these rapid changes, our society is faced with new challenges.
In this 4-minute BigThink video, Dr. Andrew Weil, professor and founder of the Arizona Center for Integrative Medicine, explains how depression rates are much higher in today’s society than what they were even during The Greater Depression and World War II.
Research is pointing to our disconnection with nature and our highly-processed diets as being part of the reason. What other factors do you think are negatively influencing our well-being?
What is happiness? If I may, I will tell you what it is not. Happiness is not external. It is not an object that we must perpetually chase after. The world has often taught us that happiness is in the material.
Todd Lohenry‘s insight:
Take a moment to follow the link and read Jen Pastiloff’s touching article about Rose Alma and then think about the Rose Almas in your life…
This is the TRUE story about how one man, James Altucher, makes millions, loses it all, and bounces back better than ever. If you liked this video, subscribe…
If you were hoping against hope that Google was going to come to their senses and change their mind you were in denial. It’s time to wake up and smell the feedly coffee! Digg is moving too slowly to help people in transition so my official recommendation is to move to feedly…
Here’s how you can prepare for the ‘end of the Google Reader world’…
“All you can do is sit back and bask in your relevance to the cosmos.” There is hardly a greater cosmic sage of our age than astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson. In this sublime, characteristically eloquent short clip from BigThink, he echoes Ptolemy’s awe as he teases apart the misguided tension between our human ego and the immensity of the universe:
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