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Sit back and enjoy – 5 of the best TED Talks about Social Media and New Media- all insightful, all entertaining and each one will have you thinking about the potential of new media and the social web, and what it means to you, your business and your community.
“TED – Ideas Worth Spreading” + Social Media = Engaging Presentations
Images are Engaging. With the huge popularity of Pinterest & Instagram, (not forgetting Facebook and Google+), the viral sharing potential of images has become a Hot Topic!
Have you got the Big Picture? Start using Visual Images to Skyrocket your Brand Awareness on Facebook
Anywhere that visual images can be showcased has the potential to attract engagement, traffic and exposure for your brand. So, how can you tap into this? [Read more...]
TED is a nonprofit devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading. These are my Top 5 Ted Talks Ever. If you haven’t started watching TED videos, then now is the time. Awesome Speakers. Life-changing messages.
TED started as a conference bringing together people from three worlds: Technology, Entertainment, Design. Now translated into more than 70 languages and further transformed into the TEDx Brand spawning smaller (but with no less powerful) conferences in countries all around the Globe, TED is a phenomenon that is changing humanity one presentation at a time.
Thomas Edison once said “Genius: one percent inspiration and 99 percent perspiration.” Scott Belsky took this quote to heart. He may not have invented the light globe, but he sure did reinvent the link between creativity and productivity for me, and many others that have discovered his work.
Now there is a Way to Deal With all of Your Light Bulb Moments!
I want to introduce you to 3 tools: a Book, an App and a Blog that have helped me to change the way that I look at my creativity, my ideas and most importantly, how I act on them. [Read more...]
I love Apps for fun…and especially for business.They help me keep productivity high when I have a lot on, and they fit in my pocket on my smartphone! I wanted to share with you 3 of my favorite Apps for “lightening the load”.
Apps. Love.
Think of it in terms of “Carry less, Do More”. Read on for my top 3…I am sure you will wonder where you ever were without them!
1. EVERNOTE
I am a big lover of Evernote…it is an awesome program that allows you to clip, save and post your ideas, notes, photos, webpages, clips, audio and documents into one big filing system in the “cloud” that is accessible and synchronizable from any of your devices (PC, laptop, smartphone)… and of course it comes as an app for smartphones and iPad. Better still, an offline version of your data is backed up to every device so you always have access to a copy to edit and play with before syncing it back into the system. Evernote has also integrated with the Google Chrome search. This means that when you search Google Chrome, it also searches your Evernote files….looking for words within your documents (including PDF and web pages) as well as tags you designate. It’s a bit like searching your brain! Everything is stored in the cloud and all you have to do is sync your devices to update them. SImple. Evernote. Everhelpful.
2. KEY RING (KEY RING REWARDS CARDS)
I have been using the Keyring App for a year or more now. I love it and it has made my wallet sooooo much lighter. Are you familiar with all of those barcoded membership and loyalty cards you receive from favorite coffee shops, superstores, kids entertainment venues, video stores (the list goes on)..? Well no longer do you have to carry them! Just scan the barcode into your Keyring App and voila…instant barcode, stored on your phone. Believe it or not your local favorite store can scan your barcode (I have had the entire staff at a chemist crowd around to watch it work!). If the barcode reader does not pick it up well, then the staff member can easily key in the numbers from your barcode to access your details. Just yesterday I used it at the Cinemas as well as my local Video store. Give it a try. The seams of your wallet will thank you!
3. CAMCARD Just like Keyring, Camcard has lightened my load. It allows me to take a photo of all the business cards I pick up, and the program then enters all the relevant info from the card into contact fields on my phone…complete with fields like email, website and phone. It is remarkably accurate, however I always recommend that you check the final entries against the original card before discarding it – especially where the font or graphics on the card are not easy to read. Better still, you end up having two versions saved…the visual card or photo of it as well as the details going into your contacts!
So there they are. My three favorite Apps at the moment. Bear in mind that all of them have “free” and “paid” verions. The cost to purchase the pro version or extended version for each is minimal but I recommend trying the free version first and then consider upgrading!
Have you tried any of these Apps? If you do, tell me what you think and whether your wallet is any lighter as a result!
Have you discovered Instagram yet? I can guarantee that you have….even if you do not realise it. You may be sitting here thinking “Insta-who?”, but I just know that you would have looked at a photo somewhere, sometime, that has been “Instagrammed”, and thought “What a cool shot”. Instagram Photos are everywhere. They hang out on your phone or in an email, on Facebook, or Twitter. They are fun. And they make the ordinary look awesome.
So, here are my 7 Reasons Why I love Instagram (and why I reckon you should check it out). Instagram is free to download…but the fun you get out of it is priceless! PS Warning: Once you go Instagram, you will never go back!
Need A Little Help With Social Media?
If you have been fortunate to participate in Social Media Examiner’s online Success Summits, this post will be preaching to the converted. If you haven’t, then I guarantee you this, if you register for one, you will be a convert…and you won’t regret it if you are using or intending to use Social Media to engage with customers and market Your Business. And here are 5 reasons why… [Read more...]
Two fun things have happened recently (apart from me going somewhat offline for a much needed break for a few weeks) – I got to
play with my new iPad2 and also to use it to read some downloaded books. One of those books I had long been anticipating: LAUNCH by Michael Stelzner, the founder of Social Media Examiner. Got a business, product, or service? Then you need to read this book!
So at the end of a great weekend at Nuffnang Blogopolis 2011…and all things Melbourne….here is a quick post with my top “Retweetables” from a great day of content. Great tips on blogging! More to come soon, including my list of “takeaways”!
My iPad working overtime at Blogopolis in Melbourne
RT1: @StylingYou make us laugh, make us cry, make us think, make us want to connect #nnb2011
RT2: @problogger don’t focus on the readers you don’t have, focus on loving your current readers to death! #nnb2011
RT3: @JaciEly bloggers offer something that other marketers can’t – authenticity! #nnb2011
RT4: @edenland celebrate each other’s successes! #nnb2011
RT5: @easypeasykids blogging is similar to what we teach our kids; share, be nice, use your manners. #nnb2011
RT6: @ladymelbourne if your readers are turned off because you monetize your blog, they are living in 2004, this is 2011! #nnb2011
RT7: @Childhood101 ask yourself what it is that keeps your readers up at night? #nnb2011
RT 8: @StylingYou we are all independent publishers #nnb2011
RT9: @problogger aim for consistent long term growth, with 10 to 20 per cent growth every month. #nnb2011
RT10: @problogger – ask yourself what you want people to “feel” when they leave your site #nnb2011
and in the words of @problogger’s son: Tell the world something important!
oh and don’t forget @problogger: sometimes Tweets happen!
What about you – were you at Blogopolis? Wished you were there? If you were there, what was your favourite tip, tweet, takeaway, aha moment?
So, recently I went a bit crazy ordering books online and I waited excitedly while little brown packages of books arrived at my house. So many great titles… but it was UnMarketing that I was dying to get my hands on.
