In the 10 years since I started blogging I’ve posted or shared over 50,000 pieces of content and learned a few tips and tricks along the way. Here’s my latest collection on tips and tricks with an emphasis on effective handling of email and the relationship between mobile and desktop in the cloud. I’ve never offered such a comprehensive catalog of my top productivity tips — if you master these, you’ll be well on your way to becoming a much more effective content marketer…

http://storify.com/toddlohenry/a-care-package-for-a-new-blogger-or-thought-leader

…is to never give your business address to someone you don’t want to do business with!

Here are some other thoughts in a similar vein:

• Use Gmail
• Don’t use Outlook unless your organization uses Exchange as their mail system; even then, use Gmail for all non-essential email
• Use a feedreader like Feedly — not email — to manage the sites, sources, searches and someday/maybe info you need to master
• Continue to follow this blog for more great tips and tricks like this…

Related articles

• Overcome Email Overload in Outlook (lifehack.org)
• Gmail Shortcuts: Latest Secrets for Hacking Your Email (socialmediatoday.com)
• New Gmail Inbox is making me more productive (jessegarboden.wordpress.com)
• How to Keep Your Gmail Inbox Clean (computers.tutsplus.com)
• Reply All (om.co)

…where I have never gone before!

Here’s my first pass…

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.

This may help…

http://visual.ly/track.php?q=http://visual.ly/what-wordpress&slug=what-wordpress

Explore more visuals like this one on the web’s largest information design community – Visually.

Achieving an SEO-Friendly Domain Migration – The Infographic – Moz.

…for tomorrow’s class at NWTC!

http://storify.com/toddlohenry/search-me-04-29-14

Consider this…

How do you define your digital marketing strategy? | Econsultancy.

I have followed Christine Hassler’s blog for many years — I love her video blog posts for many reasons! I was sad to see this post about some of her frustrations with being ‘popular’ in social media…

So, I put together a social media ‘love note’ with lots of thinks that Christine [or you] could do to get found by informational searchers. It’s about 12 minutes packed with ideas!

Here’s the mindmap…

If you’re interested in more ideas like this, drop me a note! I can help you ‘get found’ when people are looking for someone like you…

Many people wonder how to post to WordPress via email. They have heard how easy it is, but they don’t know how to do it. Take a look…

I recently uncovered a cache of screencasts that had been unavailable online until now…

Pin it, evernote it, use your favorite someday/maybe tool to hang on to this one!