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Making Yourself More Twitterific

Kim — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 05:13:26 +0000

If you're just venturing into Twitter or you've been at it for awhile, we're all looking for ways to make us stand out in the crowd.

First off, why do you Twitter in the first place? A great article on Business Week by John A. Byrne on Why I Twitter.

5 Ways to Find More Friends on Twitter | via ReadWriteWeb.com

Show Everyone Why You're a Twitteraholic by Using TwitStamp

Get a Great Twitter Background at TwitterImage.com

Top 10 Uses of Twitter via TopRankBlog.com

Why I Embraced Twitter (3 Part Article) via SearchEngineGuide.com

How Twitter Made My Website Better (An older post, but worth it if you haven't read it yet) via Guy Kawasaki

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Book-Larning

Kim — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 06:17:41 +0000

Translated - book learning. I listen to audiobooks when I hit the pillow at night. Usually works, sometimes not. Last few nights I've been up late with website development, so I end up repeating the same process.

Download a book I want to read. This time its James Patterson's Cross Country.
Sync iPod.
Take iPod to bed and hook up headphones.
Listen for about 10 minutes, then drift into thinking.
Skip listening for a few minutes, rewind to where I started.
Listen all over again because I have no idea where I stopped listening.
Fall asleep.
iPod keeps going until end of audiobook.
I haven't heard a thing, I have no idea where I left off.
Repeat process next night.
I wish there was a way it could detect when I nod off and go to sleep too.

Does anyone have anything they listen to everynight on their iPod?

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Norman…Is That You?

Kim — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 09:11:33 +0000

Joining Twitter brings you the wonderful addition of people who can follow you. It also brings people who can pretend to be someone else by creating a Twitter account with a familiar name. Imagine your response when you discover that someone you have an interest in is following you.

After following them and then checking it out a bit more, you discover that they really aren't who they say they are. Rats, I knew Bill Gates didn't have the time to play with Twitter.

Seth Godin posted awhile back about the subject (via @Scobleizer on Twitter). It leads to another great post on Problogger.com about securing your names and brands on social sites before someone else does. TheLinkspiel has a similar post.

I can hear the grumbling now. I don't have time to blog, don't have time to Twitter, don't have time to… you fill in the blank. I do wonder how the heavy hitters find the time to do it all. When do they squeeze in sleeping?

(Happy 21st birthday to my birthday girl, Samantha. She just walked in the front door with a balloon and cake in hand from school. I can hardly believe she's 21 when it just seems like yesterday they handed me a tiny five pounder who wouldn't take any crap from anyone. The German nurse said I would have my hands full with her. She hasn't changed a bit. I'm so proud of her. She's a spitfire.)

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Twitter and Productivity

Kim — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 05:22:13 +0000

Are you a twitteraholic or twitterphobic? If you've discovered twitter, take a look at a few ways that it can improve your productivity.

12 Ways to use twitter to increase your productivity | via SimpleHelp.net

8 Ways Twitter is useful professionally | via WebWorkerDaily.com

A Late Adopters Productivity Experiment with Twitter | via MatthewCornwell.org

Twitter Productivity Tools | via The Blog of Rudy Amid

The Guide to Do Everything with Twitter | via Labnol.org

17 Ways You Can Use Twitter | via DoshDosh.com

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Still Using GTD?

Kim — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 04:22:37 +0000

I'm still using GTD methods - have yet to find anything that replaces it. But I'm constantly looking for more information about it.

I found the master of GTD indexes:

via Marvelz.com

And a list of GTD applications:

via Priacta

If you're into GTD, but still love paper, David Allen is now selling paper based planners.

via Davidco

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Awayfind

Kim — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 03:32:42 +0000

Email is impossible to get away from. What's your email address frequently replaces asking for someone's phone number. The problem is, you're always thinking you'll miss something important. So, you check your email constantly.

Found an interesting site - Awayfind

The painless escape from piles of email is their claim. What it does is provide a form via your email signature that enables someone to get hold of you quickly without restoring to using your email. If you're elsewhere, you receive a text message that lets you know there is something important to deal with. Its configurable, so you can even delegate emails to others.

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World Diabetes Day

Kim — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 00:09:23 +0000

7.8 percent of the population of the US has diabetes. World Diabetes Day is a campaign led each year by the International Diabetes Federation. Won't you donate so that no child dies of diabetes?

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Rethinking, Restructuring

Kim — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 06:12:15 +0000

Merlin Mann, of 43folders.com fame, has been rethinking his site. I can really relate to his restructuring and rethinking of how he wants his business and site to work. We can all relate, or at least we should all relate to his thoughts and actions. If you haven't thrown all your hard work into the trash and started over lately, I can highly recommend it. In fact, Merlin takes the approach on the site to remind us to re-learn how to use it.

Merlin, please, if you're going to take this approach, what all of us readers would like is for you to journalize it. Toss around your ideas on the site so we can learn with you. That's been the exciting part of watching your site grow and change. That goes for anyone who is going through a transition, let us learn your trials and tribulations as you change.

If you're restructuring your business, let us restructure ours with you. If you're becoming a public speaker, let us in on how you are doing it. Writing a book? We can learn to write one too, if you let us know the steps you've used and what you've learned along the way. We can offer one another encouragement, support, share in the headaches and successes. Isn't that what building a website community is all about?

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A Beautiful Sunset

Kim — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 04:18:40 +0000

A gorgeous sunset greeted us as we left my daughter's Julian wedding tonight. A wonderful closing to a beautiful wedding.

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Veterans Day

Kim — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 17:13:31 +0000

I bought my poppy over the weekend. Every year, veterans take up the stand outside local stores and give away paper poppies with the hope that you will donate. I always do. I have always thought of it as my duty, especially now, during wartime. There are brave young men and women who are giving up their lives, their limbs, their time to serve their country. They weren't drafted, they asked to serve, they went willingly.

And I think of the veterans of wars past. There are veterans from Vietnam, Korea, The Gulf War, WWII, they all served bravely, and deserve our thanks.

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