But I am not sure that I feel fine. Why not? Well, read on and find out. When people talk about what books they are reading, I listen. If I hear more than one person mention a book, I figure that it’s something I need to read. When I hear more than one person that I admire mention a book, I read the book within the next month. The End of Growth: Adapting to our New Economic Reality by Richard Heinberg (Amazon affiliate link) is one of the latter. Will Rapp, who started Gardener’s Supply and about a thousand other businesses in Vermont, and Will Patten, who used to be the Executive Director at VBSR both referenced this book within a day of each other a couple of weeks ago, so I picked it up and read it as soon as I had the chance. I am
Mindmapping is a fantastic way to take notes - and a great way to generate content. I was introduced to the method of note taking by a Professor at Antioch University of New England, and, as a "visual" learner, I was immediately interested in it as a method to keep orderly notes that would actually mean something to me later. Mindmapping helps me organize, and it also helps me recall what I wrote. In addition to being an awesome note-taking technique, it's a great way to generate content for your blog/website. For example, here are the mindmapped notes from the conferences/discussions I have attended over the past year. I was tipped off to this potential when I saw Gahlord Dewald over at Thoughtfaucet post about using his iPad to generate content (notes from Mitch Joel's discussion on digital marketing) from the
Apple announced a bunch of new features and operating system stuff today. You can read about all the changes to iOS5 over at the Apple site. Amongst all the changes to the iPhone Operating System which were announced today at the Apple Keynote for iOS5, the big one, from the social media perspective, is the inclusion of “Tweet This” in the sharing features on the mobile operating system. From a social media perspective, this is pretty big news. It represents a huge nod of approval from Apple to Twitter. One of the primary obstacles people still have with fully adopting Twitter is the steep learning curve/lack of information about how to actually use Twitter in your daily life. How many of you have heard someone say "it's only for teenagers" or "I would use Twitter but I don't really care what people do all day - so you are going
What a great #BTVSMB! (That’s Burlington Social Media Breakfast, a series of meet-ups for the social-minded Burlington, Vermont peeps, for those of you that aren’t in Burlington or weren’t otherwise aware). Ann Handley and CC Chapman, authors of Content Rules (check out the affiliate link at the bottom of this page to purchase the book if you aren't getting one for free for attending BTVSMB!). ]Content Rules is the best book that I have found that answers the question "What do I blog about?"(if you haven’t heard that question yet, you will soon, and now you know what to do to help them out - point them in the direction of Content Rules. I love how accessible, informative and insightful Content Rules is (you can really hand it to anyone to help them understand how to create great content for their business). It really isn’t a surprise that
