The best of ‘what I see’ for 12/14/2012

  1. toddlohenry
    You Cannot Be Happy – Live Life Quotes, Love Life Quotes, Live Life Happy via You Cannot Be Happy If You Fill Your M… ow.ly/2tKtKM
  2. toddlohenry
    If you’re feeling pain, here are two choices; either change your perception or change your procedures!
  3. toddlohenry
    How To Do Squat-to-stands With Overhead Reach (Video) | bit.ly/SVOCBr
  4. toddlohenry
    How Music Helped Me Survive My Divorce and Life Crisis bit.ly/TYuqzR
  5. toddlohenry
    New Report Says Active People May Live Five Years Longer | Greatist bit.ly/SVLxkO
  6. toddlohenry
    @soulfullshelly Thanks for this amazing post!!! What Your Dissatisfying Relationships Are Telling You toddlohenry.com/2012/12/14/…
  7. toddlohenry
    Ever Wanted to Publish Your Own Book? Don’t Start until You’ve Read Guy Kawasaki’s New Book! bit.ly/SnGLQ7
  8. toddlohenry
    Unique Christmas Gift Ideas For The Person Who Has Everything bit.ly/SnGJb1
  9. toddlohenry
    3 Ways to Reduce Stress in 15 Minutes / Day (Without Exercising!) bit.ly/SnGIUq
  10. toddlohenry
    How Music Helped Me Survive My Divorce and Life Crisis bit.ly/SnC6xJ
  11. toddlohenry
    News: First Study Reveals Weight Loss Apps Could Really Work bit.ly/SnC49c
  12. toddlohenry
    50 Important Advice and Things To Know That People Usually Aren’t Told About bit.ly/SnC6xz
  13. toddlohenry
    “If I’m Feeling Mired in My Own Problems, The Best Way to Get a Lift Is To Help Someone.” bit.ly/SkJgCZ

Time for a course correction? Updated 12/13/2012

Here’s another post in an infrequent series that I do to give back to the WordPress.com community

A famous comment usually attributed to Lord Leverhulme goes: “I know that half of my advertising budget is wasted, but I’m not sure which half”. The same is true of your blogging and social media time! How can you tell if you’re on track? Which 50% is working? What can you do if you’re off course? Well, the simplest way may be to check your WordPress.com stats for the past year and see what links people are actually clicking on…

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…then give them more of what they like and less of what they don’t! @jonswanson reminded me that reviewing your mosts popular posts and doing more like them is a good review do to as well!

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Another interesting way is to add twitter tool Twylah to your mix. Twylah brings your brand message into focus, extends the life of your tweets, and helps you get discovered beyond Twitter. Twitter you say? I don’t even use that! Well, you might want to start! I use the sharing feature in the WordPress settings to send every WordPress post to Twitter as a way of amplifying my posts. I also use Twitter to share articles that I don’t feel like sharing on the blog. Together — my blog posts and my tweets — create what I call a lifestream and Twylah is the place where I put that lifestream. Twylah automagically organizes my lifestream by topic and gives me a pretty good indication of how the internet views my lifestream. If the topics are way off, it might be time for a course correction! If the topics look like who you want to be known as, then Twylah provides that validation as well…

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Another reason why I love Twylah in closing is that I can host Twylah on my domain so that I can effectively add Twylah to my WordPress.com blog and get Search Engine Optimization [SEO] benefits from my tweets as well. Oh, and did I mention that Twylah is free?

Blogging in the WordPress.com community is fun, but if you actually want to be recognized as an authority in an area and get found when people are looking for you, these two tools may be all you need to amp your internet presence! Oh, and by the way if you’re looking for WordPress.com or ‘thought leadership’ marketing coaching, you can stop by my business site at http://e1evation.com/services/

The best of ‘what I see’ for 12/10/2012

  1. Fact #5: The person who cares the most will often end up doing a task. If you care more about a task being done, you’re more likely to end up doing it—and don’t expect other people to care as much as you do, just because something is important to you. It’s easy to make this mistake in marriage. You think it’s important to get the basement organized, and you expect your spouse to share the work, but your spouse thinks, “We never use the basement anyway, so why bother?” Just because something’s important to you doesn’t make it important to someone else, and people are less likely to share work they deem unimportant. At least not without a lot of nagging.
  2. Of course, there can be an assortment of reasons why you’re not yet getting whatever it is you want. I’m going to suggest, however, that one of the reasons is that you haven’t done EVERYTHING that can be done. So, instead of feeling helpless and confused, revisit the situation at hand, and ask yourself – Are there projects that have yet to be completed? Are there to-do’s that have been patiently waiting to be crossed off of your list?
  3. “Believe in your epiphanies. Believe in your yourself. Take action. And watch the world conspire to support you.”Elise Ballard Learn more about Elise and her latest inspirational book at EpiphanyChannel.com Photo and Art by Jenni Young & Bryant McGill
  4. Call home at least once a week. It’s a proven fact that we call home less the older we get. And that’s wrong. It should be the other way around. As we get older, our parents get older.
  5. ninatandon
    RT @toddlohenry: 5 Ways to Meditate on the Subway (Or During Your Commute) bit.ly/RVu27a
  6. toddlohenry
    5 Ways to Meditate on the Subway (Or During Your Commute) bit.ly/RVu27a @ninatandon :-D
  7. toddlohenry
    Feeling Resentful? 6 Hard Facts About Shared Work « Positively Positive bit.ly/SL2o9Y
  8. toddlohenry
    5 Stress Relievers That Are Virtually Free and Totally Good for You bit.ly/SL2deL
  9. toddlohenry
    “The only way you are going to be able to lose weight and keep it off, is by changing yourself. ” bit.ly/SL1ZUY
  10. toddlohenry
    5 Foods That Are Surprisingly Cheap, Healthy, and Easy to Make At Home bit.ly/SL0SVl
  11. toddlohenry
    “Our opinions are castle walls, built to keep us safe.” bit.ly/SL0BBK
  12. toddlohenry
    “Why Changing Somebody’s Mind, or Yours, is Hard to Do.” bit.ly/SL0BBK
  13. toddlohenry
    Stop Proving, Start Living. The Benefit of Getting Clear on How You Want to Feel. bit.ly/VugbjE
  14. toddlohenry
    Are you staying on your strategic track? | Thought Leadership Leverage bit.ly/SJpm10

The best of ‘what I see’ for 12/4/2012

  1. “The past is finished. Learn from it and let it go. The future is not even here yet. Plan for it, but do not waste your time worrying about it. Worrying is worthless. When you stop ruminating about what has already happened, when you stop worrying about what might never happen, then you will be in the present moment. Then you will begin to experience joy in life.”   – Brian Weiss
  2. “Healing may not be so much about getting better, as about letting go of everything that isn’t you – all of the expectations, all of the beliefs – and becoming who you are.” – Rachel Naomi Remen
  3. “We may tell ourselves that love is not really available. but the deeper truth is that we don’t entirely trust it, and therefore have a hard time fully opening to it or letting it all the way into us. This disconnects us from our own heart, exacerbating our sense of love’s scarcity.” – John Welwood,
  4. “We must each achieve greater individual consciousness and self-knowledge, and project mindful kindness toward everything and everyone.”Bryant McGill From book, Voice of Reason http://bryantmcgill.com/vor Photo by Jenni Young
  5. toddlohenry
    5 Fitness Gadgets That Actually Work And Won’t Swallow Your Money bit.ly/SJhyfA
  6. toddlohenry
    How I Learned to Relax and Enjoy My Family’s Quirks bit.ly/SJhAUH
  7. toddlohenry
    Lumawake: An iPhone Dock That Simulates the Sunrise bit.ly/SJhxZ5
  8. toddlohenry
    What Are You Pretending Not to Know? « Positively Positive bit.ly/RyPWwW
  9. toddlohenry
    The Beginning Of Infinity: Why Our Dreams Do Not Lack Reality | FinerMinds twy.la/YuWwYu
  10. toddlohenry
    “12 Tips for Managing People Who Blame Others for Everything” bit.ly/RyPLBK
  11. toddlohenry
    “If we are constantly looking outside of ourselves to create a feeling of happiness we will NEVER be content.” bit.ly/RyPKgU
  12. toddlohenry
    10 Unique Search Engines That Serve Very Unique Purposes bit.ly/SJcNCI
  13. toddlohenry
    The Greatist Table: 5 Healthy Root Vegetable Recipes from Around the Web bit.ly/SJcOGH
  14. toddlohenry
    News: Ultrasound Technology Can Make Spinach Safer bit.ly/R1etun
  15. toddlohenry
    Podcasting – Is the Old New Again? – Tell Bigger Stories bit.ly/R14xB6

5 Things You Should Never, Ever Share On Twitter

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Ponder this:

 

Twitter is a network that praises transparency. If you’re honest about who you are, you can’t go wrong in your tweets, right?

Well, there’s honest as in “I made a mistake and now I’m owning up to it”, but there’s also honest as in “here is all my personal info, do with it what you will”. In your path to honesty and transparency online, here are 5 things you should never, ever share.

Source: 5 Things You Should Never, Ever Share On Twitter – AllTwitter

 

The best of @toddlohenry for 8/20/2012

  1. “As a lotus flower is born in water, grows in water and rises out of water to stand above it unsoiled, so I, born in the world, raised in the world having overcome the world, live unsoiled by the…
    Mon, Aug 20 2012 06:42:37
  2. “Your life is meant to be filled with beauty.” Bryant McGill
    Mon, Aug 20 2012 06:42:37
  3. If it doesn’t work, if it doesn’t flow, maybe life is trying to tell us something. Life is a gentle teacher. She doesn’t always send neon road signs to guide us. Sometimes, the signs are more subtle. Something not working may be a sign! Let go. If we have become frustrated by repeated efforts that aren’t producing desired results, we may be trying to force ourselves down the wrong path. Sometimes, a differ­ent solution is appropriate. Sometimes, a different path opens up. Often, the answer will emerge more clearly in the quietness of letting go than it will in the urgency, frustra­tion, and desperation of pushing harder. Learn to recognize when something isn’t working or isn’t flowing. Step back and wait for clear guidance.

The best of @toddlohenry for 8/19/2012

  1. CLICK HERE for more life, love, friendship and inspiring quotes!
    Sun, Aug 19 2012 01:45:30
  2. “When I admire the wonder of a sunset or the beauty of the moon my soul expands in worship of the Creator.”Mahatma Gandhi
    Sat, Aug 18 2012 06:12:01
  3. CLICK HERE for more life, love, friendship and inspiring quotes!
    Sat, Aug 18 2012 13:24:06
  4. “There are always flowers for those who want to see them.”Henri Matisse
    Sun, Aug 19 2012 00:14:56
  5. The one person who most blocks you from a full, happy, and successful life is you. Yes, you yourself! He is therefore wise who makes himself an asset. We can be our own worst enemy or best friend. We can be a source of trouble or a cure for trouble. So if we feel empty, as many do, start getting free from yourself as a first step to vibrant living. Start by getting out of yourself. This method may be as simple as helping the next person you encounter. – Norman Vincent Peale, The Power of Positive Living
  6. “On the still calm waters of surrender, the reflections of clarity appear.” Bryant McGill
    Fri, Aug 17 2012 23:37:36
  7. Hut built over 5 years with salvaged materials, overlooking Lake Bonney in the southeast of South Australia. Submitted by Hugh Altschwager.
    Fri, Aug 17 2012 23:37:44
  8. “To move forward simply set your intentions, be grateful for what you have, be open to what is possible, and the rest just happens as a beautiful and effortless flow.” Bryant McGill
    Fri, Aug 17 2012 18:45:50

The best of @toddlohenry for 8/5/2012

Lots of goodness all in one post! The best of @toddlohenry for 8/5/2012 (with images, tweets) · toddlohenry · Storify.

There are thousands and thousands of Twitter tools and choosing the ones that support your business objectives can be a challenge. Here are the best I have found for the ‘e1evation workflow’ creation and curation process along with my top 10 tactical Twitter videos…

There are thousands and thousands of Twitter tools and choosing the ones that support your business objectives can be a challenge. Here are the best I have found for the ‘e1evation workflow’ creation and curation process along with my top 10 tactical Twitter videos…

http://storify.com/e1evation/my-top-twitter-tools

Questions? Feedback? Comment, call or ‘connect’ so we can talk about how this applies to you and your organization…

The best of @toddlohenry for 7/17/2012

  1. “My life has been filled with misfortunes, most of which never happened.”- Mark Twain

    Sat, Jul 14 2012 15:18:31
  2. Todd’s tweets…

  3. toddlohenry
    “5 Reasons You Can’t Tell When You Are Being Lied To” http://bit.ly/LvYosN
    Tue, Jul 17 2012 09:02:55
  4. toddlohenry
    25 Animals Who Are Genuinely Interested In What You Have To Say http://bit.ly/NdEJil
    Mon, Jul 16 2012 17:00:42
  5. toddlohenry
    Wow. Even LinkedIn is getting a major overhaul… With Sights Set on Engagement, LinkedIn Launche… http://bit.ly/O3Nppq
    Mon, Jul 16 2012 16:50:15

Just in case you missed this for 6/27/2012

  1. “Don’t wait. The time will never be just right.”- Napoleon Hill
    Mon, Jun 25 2012 10:14:57
  2. “You are your own master,
    you make your future.
    Therefore discipline yourself
    as a horse-dealer trains a thoroughbred.”- Buddha
    Mon, Jun 25 2012 10:14:57

Connecting the dots…

  1. Newsflash! You’re not perfect and it doesn’t matter…

  2. Looking for some good curation tips? I did a hangout on that yesterday…
  3. Just in case you missed this profound tweets…

  4. toddlohenry
    Guy Hijacks Wedding With Fabulous “Proud Mary” Performance http://bit.ly/LPkwia
    Sat, Jun 23 2012 09:20:07
  5. toddlohenry
    Six-year-old Boy Declares the Word “Perfect” to Be Extinct http://bit.ly/KseH4E
    Sat, Jun 23 2012 08:30:17
  6. toddlohenry
    TGIF! Security Cameras Don’t Just Capture Crime, They Capture Life http://bit.ly/LcvB78
    Fri, Jun 22 2012 18:50:07
  7. toddlohenry
    Could a little Wabi Sabi be the answer to a successful relationship? http://bit.ly/MCDmpb
    Fri, Jun 22 2012 18:00:44

Just in case you missed this for 5/23/2012

  1. Top tweets…

  2. toddlohenry
    “Is discrimination obscured when the gates of marriage are opened?” http://bit.ly/KcW5qZ I have to think about this one…
    Wed, May 23 2012 07:53:15
  3. toddlohenry
    Best Friend Benefits | Psychology Today http://bit.ly/KcN9SF Not ‘friends with benefits’ — just best friend benefits! :-D
    Wed, May 23 2012 07:17:26
  4. toddlohenry
    Why Birthdays Matter (And Why They Don’t) | Psychology Today http://bit.ly/KcN7Kz
    Wed, May 23 2012 07:16:31
  5. toddlohenry
    Lisa Earle McLeod: How to Get Things Done: Separate Your Work Modes http://huff.to/JPCKzR
    Wed, May 23 2012 06:50:07
  6. toddlohenry
    Gretchen Rubin: What’s the Most Popular Resolution for Happiness? http://huff.to/Kb2uTy
    Wed, May 23 2012 06:40:02
  7. toddlohenry
    Is There a Problem with Facebook Advertising? – eMarketer http://twy.la/LAlCyG
    Tue, May 22 2012 19:53:34
  8. toddlohenry
    The Docking Station Hosts FREE Event For Business Professionals to Get Started Using Social CRM | e1evation http://bit.ly/JRMqHW
    Tue, May 22 2012 16:33:26

Just in case you missed this for 5/22/2012

A daily roundup of interesting stuff that didn’t quite make it as a blog post on its own.

  1. A massive wagon train, made up of 1,000 settlers and 1,000 head of cattle, sets off down the Oregon Trail from Independence, Missouri. Known as the “Great Emigration,” the expedition came two years after the first modest party of settlers made the long, overland journey to Oregon.After leaving Independence, the giant wagon train followed the Sante Fe Trail for some 40 miles and then turned northwest to the Platte River, which it followed along its northern route to Fort Laramie, Wyoming. From there, it traveled on to the Rocky Mountains, which it passed through by way of the broad, level South Pass that led to the basin of the Colorado River. The travelers then went southwest to Fort Bridger, northwest across a divide to Fort Hall on the Snake River, and on to Fort Boise, where they gained supplies for the difficult journey over the Blue Mountains and into Oregon. The Great Emigration finally arrived in October, completing the 2,000-mile journey from Independence in five months.In the next year, four more wagon trains made the journey, and in 1845 the number of emigrants who used the Oregon Trail exceeded 3,000. Travel along the trail gradually declined with the advent of the railroads, and the route was finally abandoned in the 1870s.
    Mon, May 21 2012 16:47:52
  2. The current season of Springtime and it varied holidays that have themes of new beginnings, new life, freedom from old bondages and the potential for resurected aspirations provide the external prompts for each of us to self-reflect and re-work our life plans.
    Sun, May 20 2012 13:06:16
  3. I’ve always found it easy to start my day healthy. Greek yogurt and fresh fruit are incredibly satisfying at 8 a.m., punctuated by a carefully crafted cup of black coffee that revs my brain. But by 8 p.m., everything changes. I’m a ravenous satyr, craving the flesh of fatty charred meats and the comforting toasty bite of calorie-laden IPAs. Melted cheese has a particular flare that would nauseate my 8-a.m. self, and the same could be said about anything fried or coated in buffalo sauce.
    Sun, May 20 2012 13:02:29
  4. Top Tweets…

  5. toddlohenry
    I just ousted Lain S. as the mayor of Algoma High School on @foursquare! http://4sq.com/csmBZH
    Mon, May 21 2012 18:28:17
  6. toddlohenry
    ““Have you ever felt at a loss when you needed to draw the line with someone?Have you put yourself at a disadvantage w… http://bit.ly/KgdyzW
    Mon, May 21 2012 15:40:23

Here’s a mindmap and a screencast about my top 3 Twitter tools and the way I use them…

Now, here’s how they all fit together!

http://youtu.be/3R1M5GuXAlQ

My top Twitter screencasts playlist:

Questions? Feedback? btw, here’s a little riff on how to use playlists in case you’re not familiar:

http://youtu.be/EooezvT04vg

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Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn And The Social Media Bill Of Rights [INFOGRAPHIC] – AllTwitter

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This one goes out to all the WordPress.com bloggers

…that are using their blogs for content marketing and ‘thought leadership‘ marketing:

http://youtu.be/v0wL9CwyefY

Here are some of the big takeaways:

  • Use Windows Live Writer or [MarsEdit if you’re a Maccie] to curate good content…
  • Use Zemanta to find related pictures, articles and metadata tags to engage readers…
  • Spend the money to get your own domain and apply it to your site…
  • Use the sharing feature to automatically post your new content to your Facebook profile or page, Twitter, etc.
  • Don’t forget the sharing buttons on every post and page if you want people to disseminate your content…
  • Put Twitter and Facebook widgets in your sidebar if you are using those tools [and you should be!]…
Ooops! Forgot to cover this;


Questions? Feedback? Comment below or connect above…

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In previous posts I’ve talked quite a bit about how Twitter has become much more important in my ‘thought leadership’ marketing workflow. I would be remiss if I didn’t take a moment to tell you about two tools; one not so new and one that that just popped up on my radar recently. They are Paper.li and Twylah. I’m sure I saw Paper.li pop up over a year ago — Guy Kawaskaki was the first person I saw using it well. Twylah is a different story — I stumbled across Nilofer Merchant’s Twylah page only about a month ago. Both are great tools, but in the final analysis I think if you’re looking to use your tweets as part of your Search Engine Optimization [SEO] strategy, you’ll decide like I did that Twylah is the tool for you. Here’s a little riff I did for you outlining the reasons why…

http://youtu.be/66mPcOfwH6o

What people are saying…

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http://storify.com/e1evation/paper-li-and-twylah-the-roundup

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Not all social networks are created equal. Knowing which one to use in order to reach your target audience is critical. This infographic may be of some help…

Visual Loop – A Who’s Who of Social Media

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Focusing on LinkedIn…

Focusing on LinkedIn…

http://storify.com/e1evation/trending-topics-for-1-27-2012

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Focus on Facebook…

Focus on Facebook…

Focus on Facebook…

Focus on Facebook…

Focus on Facebook…

http://storify.com/e1evation/trending-topics-for-1-24-2012

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