What is Alltop? A fantastic content curation website. They bill themselves as “the online magazine rack of the web.” It’s populated by the TOP blogs from around the web and hundreds of topics are sorted alphabetically for easy search. It’s the ultimate content curation site since you can add the feeds from your favorite blog (they must be on Alltop) to create a personal page of your Continue reading
8 October 2012 
How to Create Stories with Storify
October 8, 2012 By 11 Comments
Once upon a time, you spent a lot of time thinking about what to tweet out into the universe in 140 characters. These brilliantly written wisps of humor and intellect mixed artfully with the perfect amount of sarcasm are tossed into the wind like autumn leaves with the average shelf life of tweet being about three hours. (stats from my friends at Bit.ly) That's a very brief window of time for Continue reading
11 June 2012 
Pondering: Practice Makes Perfect
June 11, 2012 By 20 Comments
Ok, maybe not perfect but really, really good! In Malcolm Gladwell's book Outliers he talks about how it takes 10,000 hours to become a superstar. Think about how long that is! The argument of Outliers: (via Seth Godin's post) Where you're born and when you're born have an enormous amount to do with whether or not you're successful. Becoming a superstar takes about 10,000 hours of hard Continue reading
28 May 2012 
Pondering: Penny for your Thoughts
May 28, 2012 By 14 Comments
I read an insightful article awhile ago that has stuck with me. It's called No, You Can't Pick My Brain. It Costs Too Much. by Adrianne Graham written for Forbes. In this piece, Adrianne talks about how people are always asking her for free advice and WHY she isn't going to give it anymore. "Your knowledge has value. You’ve invested time and money into learning your craft and it’s not fair Continue reading
7 May 2012 
Tips for a Fabulous Social Media Profile
May 7, 2012 By 4 Comments
Creating a bio or profile is one of the hardest, yet most important, things that you need to do for your social media presence. And it isn't something that you can do once and never think about again. Just this week I updated my avatar and started thinking of all the places that it needed to be changed. Gravatar, LinkedIn, Twitter and the list goes on! Power Tip: Always load a photo for Continue reading
