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Archive for May, 2009

Productivity Re-cap 29 May

Here is a quick list of posts from some of my friends in the Productivity space:

  • Easton Ellsworth of Visionary Blogging covers the 25 Ways To Mix Your Blog And Facebook. From creating a Fan page for your blog on facebook, to joining and promoting your blog on groups that cover the same topic, this is a list of 25 ways to combine your blog and facebook presence to work together to help your business or organization become more successful. http://www.visionaryblogging.com/blog-facebook/

On User’s Manuals

At the SOBCon Blog, thoughts on getting your users past the suck threshold and into the kick-ass zone:

Try replacing your boring manuals with pocket guides, instructional videos, and ways for your fans to track their achievements.

The Lesson: Turn your crappy user manual into something that encourages customers to use your stuff to the fullest.

Small Town Heroes

Pajamas Media » Small-Town Heroes From the Heartland

But when it comes to “community,” rural America personify how Russell Kirk described the concept:

Although Americans have been attached strongly to privacy and private rights, they also have been a people conspicuous for a successful spirit of community. In a genuine community, the decisions most directly affecting the lives of citizens are made locally and voluntarily. Some of these functions are carried out by local political bodies, others by private associations: so long as they are kept local, and are marked by the general agreement of those affected, they constitute healthy community.

Faith — in God and each other — and an abiding sense of togetherness that manifests itself in the way this “voluntary community” leans on each other in good times and bad is what defines small-town America. No community organizers needed here. They do all their organizing through their local church, or volunteer fire department, or lodge, or other association to which they choose to belong.

Do You YouTube Edu?

At the SOBcon blog: YouTube/edu